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The New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development has completed Beacon Tower, a 73-apartment building at 29 West 138th Street between Fifth and Lenox Avenues in Harlem.

It is part of a two-building complex known as Beacon Park. The other building is called Beacon Mews. It is located at 34 West 139th Street and consists of a 87 rental apartments for middle-income families and 38 rental units for low-income families.

The 8-story, Beacon Tower will have 54 cooperative apartments for middle-income families and 19 "market-rate" cooperative units. The middle-income units have been developed through the Cornerstone Program of New York City's Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) and the New York City's Housing Development Corporation's (HDC), Cooperative Loan Financing Program.

The 8-story buildings have doormen, a garage, and fitness centers.

They were designed by Barbara Skarbinski of ABS Architects PC is the architect.

The complex is about a block away from the Harlem River Drive.
Architecture Critic Carter Horsley Since 1997, Carter B. Horsley has been the editorial director of CityRealty. He began his journalistic career at The New York Times in 1961 where he spent 26 years as a reporter specializing in real estate & architectural news. In 1987, he became the architecture critic and real estate editor of The New York Post.