The New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), New York State Homes and Community Renewal (HCR), and the Community Preservation Corporation (CPC) joined L+M Development Partners, Harlem Congregations for Community Improvement (HCCI), and partners for the grand opening of the Rev. Dr. Charles A. Curtis Plaza on Wednesday, July 13, 2016.
Located at 260 West 153rd Street in Manhattan, this new seven-story development is named in honor of the current Chairman of HCCI and includes 50 units of affordable housing, an onsite daycare center, and new community service office for HCCI.
The Rev. Dr. Charles A. Curtis Plaza, includes seven studio apartments, 30 one-bedroom apartments, and 13 two-bedroom apartments. An additional two-bedroom apartment serves as an onsite superintendent’s unit. The mixed-use project include a daycare facility, a new central office for HCCI, two elevators, a community residential terrace, an on-site health and wellness center, a bicycle parking area, 18 parking spaces, and a common laundry facility. All of the residential units will have Energy Star appliances. The childcare center, managed by Tender Tots, is hiring and enrolling children now.
The construction of this new development was financed under Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Housing New York: A Five-Borough, 10-Year Housing Plan, to create and preserve 200,000 units of affordable housing. The most comprehensive affordable housing plan in the City’s history and largest municipal housing plan in the nation, its goal is to help address New York City’s affordability crisis by reaching more than half a million New Yorkers ranging from those with very low incomes to those in the middle class, all of whom face ever-rising rents.
