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2 Supportive Housing Projects Proposed In East Harlem
Developers unveiled plans this week for a 10-story building housing LGBTQ youth and a 15-story building for formerly incarcerated people.

Developers unveiled plans this week for a 10-story building housing LGBTQ youth and a 15-story building for formerly incarcerated people.

A developer filed permits with the city this week to demolish a two-story building in East Harlem that currently houses a row of shops.

Another eight-story building may be built on Harlem's Frederick Douglass Boulevard, the second such filing on the avenue this month.
Construction is finally underway on the full-block office tower being built on the former Pathmark supermarket site on East 125th Street.
A mixed-use, eight-story apartment building will be built on the former site of a church at 136th and Frederick Douglass, city records show.
More than a dozen affordable Harlem apartments are now for sale through the city's housing lottery, selling for as low as $86,000.
Individuals must make at least $75,000 to qualify for five new "affordable" apartments on East 100th Street.
A West Harlem community board wants residents to pick between two competing plans to redevelop the RKO Hamilton Theater on Broadway.
The superintendent at a Harlem construction site was hit with a $20,000 fine in July for a number of safety violations, the city said.
Tuesday is the last day to apply to live in a new low-income senior housing block in Harlem.
The West 132nd Street garage is being marketed as a redevelopment property.
Apartments in Harlem's new Victory Plaza senior housing development will be rented at 30 percent of a tenant's income.
A lottery for more than 40 apartments in a new development on 125th Street launched Thursday.
Apartments at two new Harlem developments are being offered at below-market rates for low- and middle-income residents.
A nine-story office development will be development on the long-vacant East 125th Street site.
Rents start at $$1,667 for studio apartments offered through the waiting list.
Rents for the "affordable" two-bedroom units begin at $2,300.
Four rent-regulated, one-bedroom units in Harlem are renting for $2,245 per month.
After being rejected by the City Council's zoning subcommittee, a rezoning plan for Lenox Terrace met the same fate in the land use council.
Median sales prices for properties in Harlem's 10030 zip code were about 159% higher in 2019 compared to 2010.
Rents start as low as $545 for one-bedroom apartments offered through the waiting list.
Lenox Terrace developers applied for a rezoning to construct five new towers contain 1,600 apartments.
The three buildings contain a total of 65 units and a commercial space.
Regulated rents at Harlem's redeveloped PS 186 range from $526 for a studio to $3,142 for a two-bedroom.
Bill Perkins said he'd oppose the plan to add 1,600 apartments to the Harlem apartment complex during a zoning subcommittee meeting.
Tenants say that fixes in their apartments and rodent infestations have been ignored since their buildings were bought for $350M in 2016.
Prior to Monday's City Planning Commission vote, the expansion was rejected by the local community board and Manhattan borough president.
The new development will contain 14 apartments and ground floor retail space.
The Olnick Organization modified its plan to request a different zoning designation, but the scope of the new development remains unchanged.
Harlem's Metropolitan Community United Methodist Church sold its site for $16 million in 2019. Now it's getting a new building.
Builders broke ground on the redevelopment of Harlem's former Taystee bread bakery in March 2019.
Developers may modify plans to include a greater number of below-market-rate apartments at the Harlem complex.
The rezoning project would double the size of the Central Harlem development by building five new apartment towers.
The 34-story tower on West 125th Street will contain 142 apartments for students and faculty.
The Grace Congregational Church of Harlem filed development plans for its West 139th Street building.
A malfunctioning boiler switch caused the heating system to lose power, a NYCHA spokesperson said.
Rents for 32 Harlem apartments being offered through the city's "affordable housing" lottery system range from $2,357 to $3,044.
The Hakimian Organization is planned a 12-story, mixed-use development for East 125th Street.
The Olnick Organization applied for a rezoning to add 1,600 apartments in five new high-rise towers to the Central Harlem complex
La Hermosa Church wants to rezone its Central Park-adjacent property to build a 30-story development and finance a new church building.