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Eighteen mid-sized NYCHA buildings that are in need of serious upgrades will be demolished and replaced with six taller towers. Each of the 2,056 residents now living in these developments will be guaranteed a spot in the new buildings.
Developers will also construct nine new buildings on the land that NYCHA will continue to own. They will contain an additional 1,000 permanently affordable apartments.
The buildings will also hold 2,500 market-rate units in one of Manhattan’s most coveted neighborhoods, subsidizing the NYCHA housing.
The ambitious transformation is now being enthusiastically pushed to the finish line by the Mamdani administration, which views it as the best option to improve conditions for current residents, while also building new affordable housing.
But there's a catch: the entire project relies on getting a group of elderly tenants living in a seniors-only development called Chelsea Addition to relocate not once, but twice over at least three years.
Not surprisingly, many of these tenants — all of whom are in their 70s, 80s and 90s — fear they won't live long enough to see their promised new homes. And, they say, the prospect of moving into a non-senior NYCHA development — when they had been expecting to live out their golden years in a seniors-only paradise — is daunting.
Read more here about how a project that was set to kick off last December is now on hold, as seniors in 24 NYCHA households have declared they're not going anywhere.
In Brooklyn, Brighton Beach-bound B trains run local from Prospect Park to Kings Highway. Find all the MTA’s planned changes and the latest delays here.
Alternate side parking 🚙
It’s in effect today, March 25.
By the way…
Compost giveaways are back, where residents, nonprofit organizations and agencies can get free compost made from leaf and yard waste, food scraps and food-soiled paper collected by the city.
Wednesday, March 25: An evening of songs, scenes and music featuring works inspired by the comedic legacy of the Italian Renaissance’s Commedia dell’Arte, from Mozart to Moliere and Chaplin to Freddy Mercury. At the New School. Free, at 7:30 p.m. Register here.
Wednesday, March 25: Hear how two entrepreneurial journalists took on big bad bird in print and on camera during a film screening and discussion of “The Parrot Cartel” with reporter Rene Ebersole and filmmaker Carissa Henderson. At the NYU Journalism Institute. Free, at 6:30 p.m. Register here.
Thursday, March 26: In celebration of Women’s History Month, the Graffiti Hall of Fame presents an all-women street-art show on the Lower East Side. At Studio6 gallery. Free, at 6:00 p.m.
