Here are some key trends and challenges dominating the affordable housing sector, according to Principal Ariel Aufgang of Aufgang Architects—a company that has designed more than 20,000 units across the New York City area in the past two decades.
An In-Depth Conversation on Affordable Housing Design
Residents will have access to on-site social services ranging from health and wellbeing to financial security and isolation prevention, provided by HCCI.
This development will benefit the Central Harlem community for generations to come, with more than 130 homes for low-income and formerly homeless seniors, more than a third of which are permanently affordable
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The nine-story building offers 81 apartments for low income seniors, the remaining 55 catering to formerly homeless seniors.
Camber Property Group has launched Victory Plaza, a 136-unit fully affordable property in New York City’s Central Harlem neighborhood. The nine-story building offers 81 apartments for low income seniors, the remaining 55 catering to formerly homeless seniors.
Camber Opens Affordable Senior Project in Harlem
Camber Property Group announced the official opening of Victory Plaza, a 136-unit affordable housing development in Central Harlem featuring 81 units set aside for low-income seniors and 55 homes for formerly homeless seniors.
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The opening of Victory Plaza represents our commitment to housing our most vulnerable New Yorkers
“A truly equitable city requires us to build dignified, permanent homes for all New Yorkers, including our most vulnerable,” said Rick Gropper, Principal and Co-founder of Camber Property Group.
Permits Filed for 5119 Beach Channel Drive in Far Rockaway, Queens
Permits have been filed for a 15-story mixed-use building at 5119 Beach Channel Drive in Far Rockaway, Queens. Located at the intersection of Beach 53rd Street and Beach Channel Drive, the interior lot is closest to the Beach 60th Street subway station, serviced by the A train. The Arker Companies under the Peninsula Rockaway LP is listed as the owner behind the applications
Pandemic Prompts New Thinking in Residential Architecture
Enhanced access for seniors and others with mobility issues will expand at an accelerated pace spurred by post-COVID-19 influences on residential architectural design utilizing creative applications of new technology to protect residents’ health and safety, while adding greater ease and convenience to their daily lives.
These architects designed the most new dev in NYC this year
3. Aufgang Architects | 14 projects | 1,638,262 square feet
This powerhouse firm has made the top half this list for three years running. Aufgang filed plans mostly for projects in the Bronx and Queens this year, but there may be changes at one of its Manhattan developments. For developers Maddd Equities and Joy Construction, Aufgang had planned a 30-story, 544,000-square-foot project with 611 residential units and about 62,000 square feet of commercial space at 3875 Ninth Avenue in Inwood.
Now the developers say they might axe that plan for affordable and low- or middle-income units, which depended on a 2018 rezoning, in favor of an as-of-right industrial project, in light of a Manhattan judge overturning the rezoning this month.
Ariel Aufgang is the principal at Aufgang Architects, founded in 1971 and based in Suffern.
Who’s Afraid of a Transit Desert?
You can’t go near a subway stop and find something to build anymore,” because of the prohibitive cost, said Ariel Aufgang, an architect for the project, who has designed several affordable buildings in the city. Despite the distance from the train, the developer anticipates tens of thousands of applications for fewer than 1,200 units.
Call for City to Take Aggressive Steps on Affordable Homeownership
Ariel Aufgang, an architect active in affordable-housing development, believes the value attached to home ownership is an anachronism from post-war America, when it was believed that property values would rise inexorably, representing a no-brainer investment for families that tended to stay in one place.
Aufgang’s Apartments on Long-Empty Clinton Hill Lot Will Be Brick, Rise Eight Stories
The Stoler Report - Affordable Housing
We love being part of positive change in the community and are extremely passionate about the Affordable Housing sector. Check out what Ariel has to say during their discussion on the Stoler Report
Wanted: The Oddest Lots
In New York, one of the most expensive cities for new development, there are acres of vacant land on irregular lots considered too narrow, too shallow or too onerous to build on. Like the offal left after the prime cuts of meat, they are the odds and ends that take the most skill to manipulate.
Proposed Affordable Housing Development in Westchester Square Receives Strong Support from Local Community
Back in October 2018, YIMBY revealed a batch of fresh renderings and site plans for a proposed affordable housing development in the Westchester Square community of The Bronx. Today, the project is expected to move forward as intended following strong support from neighborhood residents, small business owners, and local union members.
Permits Filed for 267 West 126th Street in Harlem, Manhattan
Permits have been filed for a seven-story mixed-use building at 267 West 126th Street in Harlem, Manhattan. Located between Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard and Frederick Douglass Boulevard, the interior lot is one block east of the 125th Street subway station, serviced by the A, B, C, and D trains. New York City’s Housing Preservation and Development agency is listed as the owner behind the applications.
Harlem Renaissance: Marriott brand moves in above historic theater
Just a few doors down from Harlem’s renowned Apollo Theater resides another theater that never quite rose to such fame, but still made its mark. The recently restored space may have its second shot at stardom, however, now that it’s home to a major hotel brand, among the first in the area.
Billion Dollar Development Project Brings Affordable Units, Cultural Space to Brownsville
Aufgang Architects-designed 210-room Marriott Hotel rises above Victoria Theater
Harlem's Future Tallest Building Finally Gets Out of the Ground; See New Images
The curtain is finally rising on the long-planned redevelopment of Harlem's Victoria Theater. A recent visit to the construction site at 233 West 125th Street, which partially touches the Apollo Theater, reveals that the 28-story endeavor has reached street level. The $200 million project is being led forward by the Lam Group, Exact Capital, and Danforth Development Partners. The Empire State Development Corporation (ESD) is also helping fund the venture.
Verticality Imminent for Victoria Theater Redevelopment at 233 West 125th Street, Harlem - New York YIMBY
The gradual redevelopment of Harlem’s 125th Street corridor isn’t showing any signs of slowing down. Construction is starting to rise above ground level for a 26-story hotel and 25-story residential tower at 233 West 125th Street. The project is best known for its connection with the Victoria Theater, which will be restored and integrated with the Marriott. The Lam Group is the developer.
Live across from the historic Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, from $519/month
Live in a new mixed-use building in the Bronx’s Mount Hope neighborhood from $368/month
A housing lottery launched this week for 105 mixed-income units at a newly constructed building in the Mount Hope neighborhood of the Bronx. Designed by Aufgang Architects, the more than 110,000-square-foot complex at 2028 Creston Avenue features 114 residential units and space for retail and community activities
Soon to be largest deliberately demolished tower ever, 270 Park Avenue proposal faces backlash
Plans to replace JPMorgan Chase’s current headquarters at 270 Park Avenue with a much taller tower at the same site is facing opposition from architecture and preservation buffs, shortly after the proposal was announced.
The top 10 biggest real estate projects coming to NYC
An entity called 37-21 30th Street Corp. filed plans for this mixed-use building in Astoria that would span 135,378 square feet, split between 133,452 square feet of residential space and about 11,000 square feet each of manufacturing and commercial space. Aufgang Architects was tapped to design the building, which would contain 199 residential units and stand 75 feet tall.
