The city wants to tear down the Bloomingdale Library and a Department of Health building on West 100th Street on the Upper West Side \u2014 rebuilding the site into a new library, a clinic and roughly 850 apartments above them.<\/p>\n
\u201cCity-owned property should not be handed over to developers to decide on affordable housing. All of these apartments should be 100% affordable,\u201d resident Patricia Loftman said.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
Officials say market-rate rents would help fund affordable apartments, the new library and a rebuilt health department facility
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At Wednesday night’s Community Board 7 meeting, neighbors questioned the city’s plan to mix market-rate and affordable units on public land
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The city calls it part of a broader plan to build 10,000 homes on public property \u201cliving libraries\u201d with housing on top<\/p>\n
At Wednesday night\u2019s Community Board 7 meeting, neighbors questioned the city\u2019s plan to mix market-rate and affordable units on public land.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had a big renovation of the library just, maybe, three years ago. [It] cost about $3 to $4 million, and our current library is now brand-new and beautiful,\u201d neighbor Diane Lichtman said.<\/p>\n
The city calls it part of a broader plan to build 10,000 homes on public property \u201cliving libraries\u201d with housing on top.<\/p>\n
But neighbors worry the construction could upend their block.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou lose a lot of sleep when you have construction next to you. This is going to be five years of construction,\u201d neighbor Diane Lichtman said.<\/p>\n
Officials say market-rate rents would help fund affordable apartments, the new library and a rebuilt health department facility.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re going to petition for 100% affordable housing at the library site,\u201d neighbor Joan Strasbaugh said.<\/p>\n
In a statement, the Economic Development Corporation said, \u201cNew York City is in the throes of a decades-long housing affordability crisis due to stagnant growth. The only way out of that crisis is to build more housing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Two citywide ballot proposals this fall could fast-track housing projects and limit community board input, like at Wednesday\u2019s meeting.<\/p>\n
For now, the meeting aims to outline a list of priorities they want built into the plan before the city issues its request for proposals later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The city wants to tear down the Bloomingdale Library and a Department of Health building on West 100th…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[2908,25,2907,388,75,84,83,9,24,12,63,27,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-4348","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-app-housing","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-housing","11":"tag-louis-finley","12":"tag-manhattan","13":"tag-manhattan-headlines","14":"tag-manhattan-news","15":"tag-new-york","16":"tag-new-york-city","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-top-stories","20":"tag-vod"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4348","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=4348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}