{"id":246858,"date":"2026-05-28T20:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T20:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/246858\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T20:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T20:42:07","slug":"community-board-6-votes-no-on-massive-west-farms-affordable-housing-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/246858\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Board 6 votes \u2018No\u2019 on massive West Farms affordable housing project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bronx Community Board 6 voted unanimously on May 27 to oppose <a href=\"https:\/\/zap.planning.nyc.gov\/projects\/2023X0149\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">rezoning<\/a> for a project that would create 366 new affordable housing units in Crotona\/West Farms and new homes for 91 existing households.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The multiyear project, proposed by the nonprofit Phipps Houses, would involve constructing a 159-unit building on an empty lot at East 181st St. and Crotona Parkway. This site is referred to in the application as the \u201cSojourner Truth site\u201d because it previously housed a family shelter by that name, also operated by Phipps Houses, a nonprofit established in 1905 with affordable housing throughout the Bronx, Queens, Manhattan and Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"meta-box read-more-box\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bxtimes.com\/community-board-6-west-farms-affordable-housing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\tSee the full article at Bronx Times &#13;<br \/>\n\t\tCommunity Board 6 votes \u2018No\u2019 on massive West Farms affordable housing project &#13;\n\t<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bronx Community Board 6 voted unanimously on May 27 to oppose rezoning for a project that would create&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[433,4033,128,71659,1882,71660,95256,3348,2610,9,24,12,12702,63,96450,1491,435,96451,129,131,130,440,96452,2462],"class_list":["post-246858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-affordable-housing","tag-borough-president-vanessa-gibson","tag-bronx","tag-bronx-community-board-6","tag-community","tag-council-member-oswald-feliz","tag-crotona","tag-east-tremont","tag-neighborhoods","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-non-profit","tag-nyc","tag-phipps-houses","tag-real-estate","tag-rezoning","tag-sojourner-mapes-rezoning","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-ulurp","tag-ulurp-application","tag-west-farms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}