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By Kevin Duggan
Brooklyn Paper
The city wants to transfer
three vacant lots in Bedford
Stuyvesant to a pair of
development firms to build
85-units worth of deeply affordable
housing, which reps
for the builders claim will benefit
existing residents of the
rapidly gentrifying neighborhood.
“We all know the real big
issue is that the market-rate
housing that’s sort of exploded
on us has brought a
lot of folks in and we’ve seen
a lot of Bed-Stuy residents depart,”
Gordon Bell, an executive
at the Bedford Stuyvesant
Restoration Corporation,
told members of Community
Board 3’s Land Use Committee.
“So we’re going to make
something that’s supposed to
support the community’s interest
— the current community’s
interest.”
The city’s Housing Preservation
and Development is
seeking the approval of City
Council to fork over properties
collectively dubbed “Dekalb
Commons,” which consist of
two lots on Dekalb Avenue between
Marcy and Nostrand
avenues, and a smaller plot of
vacant land on Fulton Street
between Bedford Avenue and
Spencer Place. The properties
would be transferred to
to Bell’s firm and a Williamsburg
nonprofit developer,
called St. Nicks Alliance.
The roughly $50 million
development scheme includes
two seven-story buildings,
one adjacent to the public
Kosciuszko Pool at 648-654
Dekalb Ave. housing 45 units,
and the other across the street
at 633-639 Dekalb Ave. with
37 units, ranging from studios
to three-bedroom apartments,
along with a a 700-square-foot
community room located on
the ground floor.
Both sites would have rear
yards complete with a children’s
play area and seating
.T
he third site would host
a four-story building at 1187
Fulton St., and feature three
two-bedrooms above 1,187
square feet of ground-floor
commercial space.
The two Dekalb Avenue
sites will set rents based on
the city’s federally-designated
area median income,
with rates ranging from $535
per month for a studio up to
$2,143 for a three-bedroom,
and will earmark 13 units for
formerly-homeless residents
at a discounted rate of between
$375 for a studio and $672 for
a three-bedroom.
On Fulton Street, the twobedroom
units will be priced
around $1,862 per month, and
the higher cost will help finance
the cheaper units in the
other two buildings, according
to Bell.
But before the developers
can break ground, the two
firms and the city will have
to get the proposal through
the city’s lengthy land use review
procedure, which can
take months to complete.
Officials anticipate Council
approval pending a public
review process by the fall
of this year, which would put
the builders on track to finish
construction by 2023.
The development is part of
Mayor Bill de Blasio’s controversial
2014 scheme to add
300,000 of so-called “affordable
housing” units by 2026.
His administration has added
135,000 units as of July 2019,
according to the city.
Critics of hizzoner’s plans
have argued that area-median
income — which is calculated
on regional basis to include
the entire city and parts of
Westchester — doesn’t accurately
reflect the salaries of
families in certain parts of the
city, where the average income
is often far lower than AMI.
For example, one recent public
land transfer proposal targeting
residents that earned
as much as twice Bedford-
Stuyvesant’s median household
income.
The city wants to erect two seven story buildings on
publicly-owned land with below-market-rate rental
units on Dekalb Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
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