Long-Stalled Affordable Housing Development Moving Forward In Hell's Kitchen

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A new development that will bring between 200 and 250 affordable housing units is proceeding in Hell’s Kitchen after years of legal challenges and local opposition.

The site is now a parking lot, and part of NYCHA’s Harborview Terrace public housing project, on 54th and 56th streets between 10th and 11th avenues.

NYCHA will host what it’s calling “visioning workshops” with residents before soliciting proposals from developers interested in building the development, DNAInfo reports.

The plan is for ground to break in 2019. The units were promised by the city as part of a rezoning passed in 2005 which made Hudson Yards possible.

NYCHA selected Atlantic Development to build the units, but Community Board 4 and local activists cried foul over the income requirements and the inclusion of market-rate housing, and ultimately the plan went nowhere.

This version of the development will be all-affordable, and its developer will lease the land to build and operate it for 99 years. [DNA]

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