Crown Heights Apartment Complex Gets Nearly 600 Rent-Stabilized Units

CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN — A group of elected officials on Tuesday announced a deal to rent-stabilize nearly 600 apartment units at the Brooklyn Jewish Hospital Apartment Complex.

"Today marks a three-year hard fought victory," City Councilwoman Laurie Cumbo said outside of one of the buildings at the complex, on Prospect Place. "I am so glad that we were able to bring this victory home to you."

The deal between the city and Alma Realty will keep apartments at five of the six apartment buildings in the complex rent-stabilized for the next 30 years. Negotiations are ongoing for the sixth building.

The deal comes after three years of negotiations after Alma started raising rent for some tenants in the building.

Cumbo, along with Assemblymember Walter Mosley, Public Advocate Tish James, Comptroller Scott Stringer and Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, helped negotiate the deal.

The City Council last year approved a tax exemption at the complex in exchange for an agreement to keep the units affordable, according to DNAinfo.

"The fight here is the fight everywhere," Stringer said Tuesday. "Skylines are changing in this city and in this boroughs. But they must change with the understanding that the people who built our communities should not be pushed out."

Cumbo said the deal was "huge" and called it "the all star game of housing."

"It’s incredible," she said. "I’ll always look at this as part of my legacy."

Photo: Marc Torrence, Patch