Clinton Hill Affordable Housing From Brooklyn Heights Library Developer Revealed!
Developer David Kramer’s Hudson Companies has released renderings of the Clinton Hill affordable housing it plans at 1041-1047 Fulton Street and 911-917 Atlantic Avenue. As readers will recall, both buildings are part of a deal struck to redevelop the Brooklyn Heights Cadman Plaza branch library at 280 Cadman Plaza West, next door to 1 Pierrepont Plaza, where…
Developer David Kramer’s Hudson Companies has released renderings of the Clinton Hill affordable housing it plans at 1041-1047 Fulton Street and 911-917 Atlantic Avenue. As readers will recall, both buildings are part of a deal struck to redevelop the Brooklyn Heights Cadman Plaza branch library at 280 Cadman Plaza West, next door to 1 Pierrepont Plaza, where Hillary Clinton has her campaign headquarters.
The renderings, more details of the project, and additional renderings of the condo building were revealed on a new website about the project last week.
The Clinton Hill buildings will offer 114 affordable units as part of the $52,000,000 deal Hudson Companies has struck with the library to buy and redevelop its current site. Like the proposed library tower, they were designed by Marvel Architects.
Above is a rendering of the Atlantic Avenue building. See and read more about the designs and affordable rents below.
Above is the Fulton Street building. Rents will begin at $850 for a studio (for tenants making 60 percent of the Area Median Income) and top out at $3,623 for a three-bedroom (for those making 165 percent of the Area Median Income), according to a rundown on the website.
The website also offers a pair of new renderings of the 36-story tower Hudson wants to build on the library’s current low-rise site, in addition to the image we ran earlier this week. The one below offers a view of the proposed new 21,500-square-foot library, which will be spread over three levels.
The library will include an auditorium, a below-grade public space, and a double-height area on the main floor. The entrance will be on Cadman Plaza West.
Below is a street-level view of the building, which will have a pair of ground-floor retail spaces. According to the website, they’ll hold a Brooklyn Roasting Company coffee shop and a pop-up retail store curated by Smorgasburg.
The building’s 139 units will be a mix of one- to four-bedrooms, and have “generous layouts, expansive views of the NYC skyline and include a comprehensive set of amenities as well as underground parking,” according to the website.
Above, developer David Kramer of Hudson Companies pictured with his three children. Hudson plans to break ground next summer and finish up in spring 2020. First the firm will have to get through the public-review process, which began last week with a hearing at Community Board 2.
Brooklyn Heights Library Coverage [Brownstoner]
Renderings via Hudson Companies; photo via Brooklyn Heights Blog
This is the compromise that has been met to get developers to invest to build “affordable” housing. I can tell you what’s wrong…giving tax breaks and subsidies to developers to building housing for a group of people who belong to a specific religion.
Hasn’t anyone noticed all the buildings sprouting up in Northern Bed Stuy/Williamaburgh that is only going to Hasidic Jews?
Surabi: I’m new to the neighborhood. What environmental issues are in the area? Many thanks.
You two could always run for their positions if you feel that they don’t respond to the needs of ‘your group of people’.
Deblasio turns a blind to all the Hasidic-only housing being built all over Williamsburg and Northern Bed Stuy. Just the area north of Myrtle and tell me if you see integration in those buildings. And they are using our tax money to build those. Where is the outrage…where is the investigation
it’s a branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. That said, BPL claims that Brooklyn Heights is the largest of the branch locations. Most of the BPL branches don’t have that many volumes to begin with; Central at Grand Army Plaza of course has the most books.
I’d agree with you downtownbklyner that it’d be a welcome addition if they build on dreadful Atlantic Ave, which it needs badly. This stretch of Fulton, however, has tremendous potential for great retails, and is on the cusp of retail activities and restaurants spread over from Forte Greene, West Clinton Hill…ect. I’d rather see condos or market rate apts with ground floor retails at this location.
There are many, many market rate projects being built all over Bed Stuy, Clinton Hill, and Crown Heights. Townhouses in these areas are going for $2 million. I don’t think a few affordable housing buildings, where rents are 165% of the median income, will “negatively impact” and drive down the value of homes. On the contrary, these buildings will take up lots made up of mostly car repair shops and bring a little street life to areas that really need it. Anything being built on Atlantic Avenue in those areas is pretty much guaranteed to be better than what is there now (yes, sadly, even self storage units – it’s that bad right now).
Completely agree with bedstuy13. The sweet deal is obvious. Developers get away from building affordable housings in prime neighborhood where they erect luxury condos, and dump affordable housings linked to the deal to build more in prime area in less gentrified area such as clinton Hill, Bed stuy. Developers makes tens of millions more given much higher price / sf in Brooklyn Heights, and all with the same construction cost and much lower land cost in Clinton Hill. Besides, not offering any commercial retail space on ground floor basically creates a large less than visually pleasing structure without benefiting the locals.
The issue here is why does Clinton Hill have to end having an ugly affordable housing building to meet a deal between the city and a developer to build a nice luxury building in Brooklyn Heights. And if this is how DeBlasio is thinking of adding affordable housing, then Clinton Hill, Bed Stuy, Crown Height, Bushwick etc…will end up with a lot of affordable housing just to meet the deals of building luxury in other areas of Brooklyn and Manhattan. For the people that own properties in these areas, I don’t think this is a good deal as affordable housing will just negatively impact the area and will drive down the value of their homes. To be fair for everyone including the future resident of these buildings, the city and our city council should push to require certain number of affordable housing in all areas of Brooklyn and Manhattan and not concentrate such buildings in one or two areas of the city.
And to your point, PutnamDenizen, I don’t think these affordable housing buildings look fine. Aside from the look, they should also consider adding some retail and probably bring the Brooklyn Roasting Company coffee shop as they are doing to their BH building.