Constructed on a former parking lot adjacent to the Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center, the apartments at Utica Crescent are for households earning up to 80% of Area Median Income, including 89 with on-site supportive services for eligible elderly residents. The health and wellness-oriented hub includes a healthcare center operated by One Brooklyn Health System, retail space, grocery store, community facility, and exercise and recreational opportunities.<\/p>\n
The project will include fully accessible and adaptable apartments. There are 17 units to accommodate residents with mobility disabilities and seven units to accommodate residents with sensory disabilities, officials said.<\/p>\n
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\nA rendering of Sparrow Square. Photo: Supplied\/Breaking Ground
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In addition, the state started construction on the first phase of\u00a0Sparrow Square<\/a>, a 261-unit complex, with partners Breaking Ground<\/a> and Douglaston Development.<\/a>\u00a0There will be two buildings, and more than 100 units will be reserved for eligible vulnerable households and those struggling with homelessness who are eligible to receive on-site supportive services.<\/p>\n The\u00a0first phase will have approximately 20,000-square-feet of community facility space and 63,000-square-feet when fully complete, a ballet studio, and resident social service space. When complete, the proposed project will\u00a0provide up to 1,081 new affordable homes of which 9% would be owner-occupied.\u00a0<\/p>\n The project will also include fully accessible and adaptable apartments. There are 17 units to accommodate residents with mobility disabilities and 10 units to accommodate residents with sensory disabilities, officials said.<\/p>\n \u201cThese two transformative developments in East Flatbush bring the promise of the Vital Brooklyn Initiative to life-creating affordable apartments and expanding access to health and community services in an area of the city that has been underserved for decades,\u201d Hochul said in a statement. \u201cThese investments put the health and well-being of the developments\u2019 residents and the surrounding neighborhood at the forefront and bring us closer to creating a more equitable Brooklyn where everyone has a fair shot at a brighter future.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Built on state land on the former Kingsboro Psychiatric Center Site, Flatbush gained over 300 affordable housing units…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[104494,98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-270977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-affordable-housingflatbushutica-crescentsparrow-square","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270977","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=270977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}