http://www.nyc.gov/html/hpd NYC.gov RSS en Copyright 2013 City of New York Wed, 22 May 2013 13:10:11 EST http://www.nyc.gov/html/hpd/html/pr2013/pr-05-22-13.shtml NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) Commissioner Mathew M. Wambua announced today that a team comprised of North Brooklyn Development Corporation (NBDC) and MDG Design and Construction, LLC has been chosen through a competitive Request for Proposals (RFP) to develop an affordable, mixed-use development on the former Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) warehouse site in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The City-owned site located at 337 Berry Street between South 4th Street and South 5th Street will be developed to create 55 units of low-income rental housing along with new ground-floor commercial space for a grocery store, community space for a tenant services center, and open space for use by the future tenants. The LPC’s warehouse served as a repository for fixtures and ornaments reclaimed from buildings across New York as part of that agency’s architectural salvage program. The program was discontinued in 2000, and in 2005 the site was identified in the Greenpoint-Williamsburg Points of Agreement (POA) as a possible location for affordable housing development. http://www.nyc.gov/html/hpd/html/pr2013/pr-05-22-13.shtml Wed, 22 May 2013 12:39:00 EDT http://www.nyc.gov/html/hpd/html/pr2013/pr-05-20-13.shtml New York, NY - NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) Commissioner Mathew M. Wambua is reminding property owners and managing agents of multifamily residential buildings and certain one- and two- family homes that registration forms will be sent to them in late May and early June in preparation for meeting the new August 31st deadline to register or update registration information for their property with the City. In July 2013, HPD will release a new online application on the agency’s website where owners and agents will be able to create a portfolio of their properties to better manage the registration and update process. http://www.nyc.gov/html/hpd/html/pr2013/pr-05-20-13.shtml Mon, 20 May 2013 15:21:00 EDT http://www.nyc.gov/html/hpd/html/pr2013/pr-05-16-13.shtml New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) Commissioner Mathew M. Wambua today announced the latest housing development in construction to offer preference to income-eligible New Yorkers displaced from their homes by Hurricane Sandy. Developed by CAMBA Housing Ventures, Inc., CAMBA Gardens will add a total of 209 units of affordable supportive housing to the East Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn through the City’s Supportive Housing Loan Program. In addition to providing housing for formerly homeless individuals and families residing in the building, the project will include 61 permanently affordable units reserved for low-income tenants. Ten percent of these 61 affordable units will be subject to the Sandy preference. http://www.nyc.gov/html/hpd/html/pr2013/pr-05-16-13.shtml Thu, 16 May 2013 15:56:00 EDT http://www.nyc.gov/html/hpd/html/pr2013/pr-05-13-13.shtml NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) Commissioner Mathew M. Wambua announced a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) seeking to identify qualified developers to participate in the rebuilding 1-4 unit homes in New York City that were destroyed or substantially damaged by Hurricane Sandy, as part of a program using federal Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery funding. The City’s immediate response to Hurricane Sandy was one of the largest mobilizations of services in the City’s history. Rebuilding the homes that were severely impacted by the hurricane, and returning stability to those households is an essential next step in the ongoing recovery process http://www.nyc.gov/html/hpd/html/pr2013/pr-05-13-13.shtml Mon, 13 May 2013 10:13:00 EDT http://www.nyc.gov/html/hpd/html/pr2013/pr-05-10-13.shtml Brooklyn, NY – NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) joined Providence House, Inc., Alembic Community Development, Bedford-Stuyvesant residents, and homeless service providers today to celebrate the grand opening of The D’Addario Residence, a $12.6 million development providing permanent service-enriched affordable housing for formerly incarcerated individuals and their families and low-income community residents. Also in attendance were NYS Assembly Member Annette Robinson, the Brooklyn Borough President’s Office, The Richman Group, Capital One and partners. http://www.nyc.gov/html/hpd/html/pr2013/pr-05-10-13.shtml Fri, 10 May 2013 14:30:00 EDT http://www.nyc.gov/html/hpd/html/pr2013/pr-05-07-13.shtml Brooklyn, N.Y.— New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) Commissioner Mathew M. Wambua today announced the latest housing development to offer preference to income-eligible New Yorkers displaced from their homes by Hurricane Sandy. Located near the Kent Avenue waterfront, 50 North 5th Street will add a total of 229 units to the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, including 46 permanently affordable units created through the City’s Inclusionary Housing program which will be reserved for low-income tenants. Twenty-five percent of the 46 affordable units will be subject to the Sandy preference. These units are subject to a lottery managed by the developer and overseen by HPD. http://www.nyc.gov/html/hpd/html/pr2013/pr-05-07-13.shtml Tue, 07 May 2013 15:07:00 EDT http://www.nyc.gov/html/hpd/html/pr2013/pr-05-02-13.shtml Brooklyn, NY ¬— The NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), New York State Homes and Community Renewal (HCR), NYC Housing Development Corporation (HDC), joined The Hudson Companies, and CAMBA/CAMBA Housing Ventures today to celebrate the groundbreaking of the next phase of the energy- efficient, mixed-use, affordable housing Gateway Elton Street development in the Spring Creek section of Brooklyn. The new buildings will be located at 516 and 524 Vandalia Avenue, and 526 Schroeders Avenue. The three buildings totaling 175 affordable rental units comprise the second phase of the three phase development, will usurp Gateway Elton Street Phase I as having the largest solar energy system on a residential development in all of New York State. Combined with Gateway Elton Phase I, Hudson, Related and CAMBA will have installed in excess of 500,000 watts of renewable energy with the ultimate goal of 1 million watts at full completion. Gateway II will also be built to meet NYSERDA’s energy-efficiency standards and is projected to qualify for a LEED for Homes Platinum rating. Also attending the ceremony were Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, NYC Councilman Charles Barron, NYS Assembly Member Inez Barron, NYSERDA’s Project Manager for Multifamily Apartment Buildings, Dean Zias, and Housing Director - NYC Field Office of New York State Office of Mental Health, Caren Abate. http://www.nyc.gov/html/hpd/html/pr2013/pr-05-02-13.shtml Thu, 02 May 2013 15:45:00 EDT http://www.nyc.gov/html/hpd/html/pr2013/pr-05-01-13.shtml NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) Commissioner Mathew M. Wambua announced the release of a Request for Proposals (RFP) for Phase II of the Hunter’s Point South development area on the Queens waterfront. Phase II will encompass all of Parcel C, and will be a mixed-income development that may accommodate up to 1,000 new residential units, with approximately 50-60% designated as permanently affordable to working-class New Yorkers. The development will include retail space on 2nd street and Borden Avenue, and may also provide community facility space and residential parking on the site. http://www.nyc.gov/html/hpd/html/pr2013/pr-05-01-13.shtml Wed, 01 May 2013 15:32:00 EDT http://www.nyc.gov/html/hpd/html/pr2013/pr-04-29-13.shtml New York, N.Y.— New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) Commissioner Mathew M. Wambua today announced that the agency continues the instituted 25 percent preference for units in City-subsidized affordable housing developments for income-eligible New Yorkers displaced from their homes by Hurricane Sandy. The newest development to be subject to the preference is Harlem River Point North, a new affordable housing development now being marketed in the East Harlem section of Manhattan. All units are subject to a lottery managed by the developer and overseen by HPD and the City’s Housing Development Corporation (HDC) http://www.nyc.gov/html/hpd/html/pr2013/pr-04-29-13.shtml Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:26:00 EDT http://www.nyc.gov/html/hpd/html/pr2013/pr-04-16-13.shtml April 16, 2013, New York – The New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), the development team of L+M Development Partners, The Bluestone Organization, and Triangle Equities, along with the American Institute of Architects New York Chapter (AIA New York) and Enterprise Community Partners, Inc. (Enterprise) today launched the two-phase “For a Resilient Rockaway” (FAR ROC) design competition at the Center for Architecture in New York City. The FAR ROC competition seeks exciting and innovative ideas for developing the 80+ acre Arverne East site into a comprehensive new mixed-use, mixed-income, sustainable and storm-resilient community that will meet the new physical and regulatory challenges of waterfront development while maintaining the balance between innovation and affordability http://www.nyc.gov/html/hpd/html/pr2013/pr-04-16-13.shtml Tue, 16 Apr 2013 13:28:00 EDT http://www.nyc.gov/html/hpd/html/pr2013/pr-04-04-13.shtml New York, N.Y.— New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) Commissioner Mathew M. Wambua today announced the latest City-subsidized affordable housing development to offer preference to income-eligible New Yorkers displaced from their homes by Hurricane Sandy. Twenty-five percent of the units in St. Nicholas Park Apartments now being marketed in the Central Harlem section of Manhattan will be subject to the Sandy preference. All units are subject to a lottery managed by the developer and overseen by HPD. http://www.nyc.gov/html/hpd/html/pr2013/pr-04-04-13.shtml Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:27:00 EDT http://www.nyc.gov/html/hpd/html/pr2013/pr-04-03-13.shtml Bronx, NY - NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) Commissioner Mathew M. Wambua announced the release of a Request for Proposals (RFP) for two parcels of land in the Melrose/HUB section of the Bronx. The City-owned sites bordered by Bergen Street, Brook Avenue and East 149th Street will be developed to create mixed-income housing along with new commercial and/or community facility space, and open space. The site is one of the last large City-owned vacant lots in the South Bronx http://www.nyc.gov/html/hpd/html/pr2013/pr-04-03-13.shtml Wed, 03 Apr 2013 14:43:00 EDT http://www.nyc.gov/html/hpd/html/pr2013/pr-03-21B-13.shtml Bronx, NY - New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) Commissioner Mathew M. Wambua, Workforce Housing Advisors (WFHA) principal John Crotty, Banana Kelly Community Improvement Association President Harry De Rienzo, and Monadnock Construction President Nicholas Lembo celebrated the completion of the rehabilitation of the five formerly troubled Kelly Street buildings in the South Bronx, restoring 81 apartments and keeping them affordable to the New Yorkers who call them home. The previous owner, after refinancing the properties and incurring an unsustainable level of debt, allowed them to slide into such a deplorable state that all five were placed in HPD’s Alternative Enforcement Program (AEP), an initiative that annually targets the 200 most distressed buildings in the City for remediation. Subsequently, HPD commenced 7A proceedings in which it was successful in obtaining the appointment of Harry DeRienzo as the 7A administrator of the property. HPD, the development team, lenders and other partners were able to affect a change in ownership, and put in place a comprehensive rehab and financing plan that got the buildings back into good repair and into a stable financial situation for the long-term. http://www.nyc.gov/html/hpd/html/pr2013/pr-03-21B-13.shtml Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:32:00 EDT http://www.nyc.gov/html/hpd/html/pr2013/pr-03-21-13.shtml Bronx, N.Y.— New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) Commissioner Mathew M. Wambua today announced the latest City-subsidized affordable housing development to offer preference to income-eligible New Yorkers displaced from their homes by Hurricane Sandy. Twenty-five percent of the units in East Clarke Place Court now being marketed in the Highbridge section of the Bronx will be subject to the Sandy preference. All units are subject to a lottery managed by the developer and overseen by HPD and the City’s Housing Development Corporation (HDC) http://www.nyc.gov/html/hpd/html/pr2013/pr-03-21-13.shtml Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:30:00 EDT http://www.nyc.gov/html/hpd/html/pr2013/pr-03-12-13.shtml NYC Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) Commissioner Mathew M. Wambua, Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn, Workforce Housing Advisors (WFHA), Community Preservation Corporation (CPC) President/CEO Rafael E. Cestero, the Urban Homesteading Assistance Board (UHAB), and New York Community Bank announced the beginning of what will be a gut renovation of two multi-family residential buildings in the South Bronx. Located at 539-541 East 147th Street in Bronx Community Board 1, the previous ownership had allowed the buildings to fall into severe physical and financial distress, forcing the tenants to live in deplorable conditions. As part of a comprehensive effort, Workforce Housing was able to purchase the buildings from New York Community Bank through the innovative “First Look” initiative, and recently closed on a $4.7 million financing package with HPD and CPC that will allow the properties to be renovated and which will also ensure that they remain affordable to the current tenants. http://www.nyc.gov/html/hpd/html/pr2013/pr-03-12-13.shtml Tue, 12 Mar 2013 16:58:00 EDT