Affordable Housing Advocate Pat McCullough To Be Honored This Weekend
Pat McCullough: Your Landlord’s Worst Nightmare from Elizabeth West on Vimeo. In recognition of Patricia McCullough’s four decades of dedicated and effective community service, Council member Robert Jackson invites you to join the Department of Parks & Recreation for the naming of Pat’s Lawn on Saturday, October 27, 2012 at 10:30am at the entrance to [...]
2142 Amsterdam: From rubble to housing | Manhattan Times
Story and photos by Robin Elisabeth Kilmer 2142 Amsterdam Avenue has stood vacant for 18 years. But its days of being a pile of rubble are numbered. In early 2014, the vacant lot, along with two other abutting lots, will have completed the radical transformation into a $12 million, 44-unit affordable housing development. The effort [...]
After living a nightmare 552 Academy St. tenant sees her street of dreams on horizon | NY Daily News
BY Clem Richardson Iris Bertoni has known 552 Academy St. in Inwood since she was a child growing up in a building across the street. “It was a beautiful building, comfortable and safe,” she recalled. “The owner was South African. He had relatives living in the building. He lived on Webster Ave. in the Bronx.” [...]
A sweet deal in Sugar Hill | Manhattan Times
Story & Photo by Sandra E. García The Sugar Hill neighborhood of northern Manhattan just got a little sweeter. This past Thurs., July 19th, community leaders, residents and elected officials broke ground on what was once a parking lot on 155th Street and St. Nicholas Avenue to make way for the construction of 124 units [...]
Inwood Stability: City Saves Neglected Apartment Building with New Program and Private Partnership | Observer
By Jess Schiewe Last Friday morning, Felix Guzman woke up early, grabbed his fishing pole, and headed over to the East River for some catch and release fun. For 40 years he has lived in the same building on Academy Street in Inwood and in that time he has “seen a lot.” So when he [...]
Little affordable housing built in Washington Heights | NY Daily News
By Douglas Feiden / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Building affordable housing for the city’s poor and working families is one of Mayor Bloomberg’s marquee achievements — except in Washington Heights. Only a paltry 139 units of new housing for people of modest means have been constructed in Manhattan north of W. 155th St. between 2004 [...]
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