28 SEPTEMBER 6, 2018 RIDGEWOOD TIMES WWW.QNS.COM
REAL ESTATE
City Council candidate says aff ordable housing proposal
in Sunnyside is a ‘slap in the face’ to residents
Ridgewood Times Sales Guide
Listings selected at random. Courtesy MLS
RIDGEWOOD
Under $600,000
53-24 Metropolitan Avenue
$558,000
Condo
2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom
Malgorzata Pieniadz
Realty By The Park
$600,000-$,1000,000
64-13 Shaler Avenue
$769,000
1-family 2-story
3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms
Diego Sucuzhanay
Winzone Realty
Over $1,000,000
$1,300,000
18-01 Starr Street
2-family Colonial
4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms
Richard Persuad
Monticello Real Estate Group
GLENDALE
Under $600,000
79-88 Cooper Avenue
$599,000
1-family Colonial
3 bedrooms, 1 ½ bathrooms
Neal Modi
RE/MAX Frontier
$600,000-$,1000,000
89-02 75th Avenue
$699,000
1-family Colonial
3 bedrooms, 1 full bathroom, 2 half
bathrooms
Stacey Cavaliere
HomeSmart Premier Living Realty
Over $1,000,000
$699,000
89-02 75th Avenue
2-family 2-story
4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms
Elizabeth Dryjas
Charles Rutenberg Realty
MASPETH
Under $600,000
52-75 70th Street
$588,000
1-family Colonial
3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom
Lucy Lu
Landmark International Real Estate
LLC
$600,000-$,1000,000
66-04 52nd Avenue
$999,000
2-family Contemporary
5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms
Jackson Wen
Century 21 American Homes
Over $1,000,000
57-21 58th Street
$1,399,000
2-family Contemporary
5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms
Ahasan Haque
United Prestige
MIDDLE VILLAGE
Under $600,000
79-18 67th Drive
$569,000
1-family 2-Story
3 bedrooms, 1 ½ bathrooms
David Keuber
Coldwell Banker Keuber Realty
$600,000-$,1000,000
79-18 67th Drive
$938,000
2-family 2 Story
5 bedrooms, 2 ½ bathrooms
John Amore
Prime Realty
Over $1,000,000
82-56 Penelope Avenue
$1,300,000
2-family Tudor
2 bedrooms, 3 ½ bathrooms
Silvia Suarez
Carrington Real Estate Services
BY EMILY DAVENPORT
EDAVENPORT@QNS.COM / @QNS
A City Council hopeful wants
City Hall to change how they
decide what an appropriate
price for affordable housing is in
Queens and beyond.
On Aug. 31, Brent O’Leary, who is
running to represent District 26 on
the NYC Council in 2021, held a press
conference at Sabba Park, located at
49th Street and Queens Blvd., to call
on the city to reform how aff ordability
is calculated at rent-subsidized
units, particularly in Woodside and
Sunnyside.
Earlier this week, Mayor de Blasio
released applications for three affordable
housing units that is right
across the street from Sabba Park. In
the complex, a one-bedroom apartment
is being rented for $2,300 per
month.
At the press conference, O’Leary
and members of the community denounced
the city’s proposal for the
units, saying that the city needs to
change how they decide what’s aff ordable
to the people who live here.
“These units are not priced to provide
help for hard-working individuals
who live in this district, because
the formula that is being used by the
city to determine aff ordability is profoundly
broken,”O’Leary said. “Right
now, the city includes the median
income of people who live in Manhattan,
Rockland and even Putnam
counties, instead of using our income
to determine what’s aff ordable to our
neighborhood.”
According to the city’s website,
prices for the Sunnyside Point affordable
housing units range from
$2,251 for a one-bedroom unit and
$2,741 for a two-bedroom unit. The
annual household income range for
the one-bedroom is $77,178-$95,030 for
one person and $93,052 -$108,550 for
two people for the two-bedroom unit.
According to O’Leary, residents of
Woodside and Sunnyside fear that
they’ll be priced out of their neighborhoods,
saying that it’s a “slap in the
face” if $2,300 a month for a one-bedroom
apartment is seen as aff ordable.
“It is not acceptable for the city to
use our money to price us out of our
neighborhood,” O’Leary concluded.
Photo courtesy of Brent O’Leary
Metropolitan Avenue 75th Avenue 58th Street 67th Drive
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