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has relocated to
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(1 Block from Emmons Avenue)
Our telephone number remains the same
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COURIER L 12 IFE, NOV. 23–29, 2018 B
New Coney building
boasts affordable units
Complex includes 134 below-market-rate apartments
BY JULIANNE MCSHANE
A new mixed-use development will
bring more than 130 below-marketrate
apartments to Coney Island when
it opens early next year, according to a
rep for its developer, Georgica Green
Ventures.
And more than 80 of those units
will be earmarked for formerly homeless
veterans, rep Ally Giorgos said.
The builder hopes to wrap construction
on Surf Vets Place — at 3003
W. 21st St. at Surf Avenue — by January,
according to an executive at the
Concern for Independent Living, the
organization that will work with the
city’s Department of Veterans Services
to administer the apartments for
formerly homeless vets.
The property’s architect, the Stephen
B. Jacobs Group, fi led plans for
the nine-story tower containing 134
total units and nearly two basketball
courts’ worth of ground-fl oor retail
space in April 2016.
Eligible veterans can apply to the 82
apartments available to them by submitting
an application to the city’s Human
Resources Administration’s online
supportive-housing system.
City reps will then forward applications
to the Department of Veterans
Services and then to Concern for Independent
Living, according to Concern
honcho Elizabeth Lunde, who added
that the organization’s staffers will
then “screen applications and make
fi nal determinations of eligibility”
based on factors including fi nancial
qualifi cations, household size, proof of
a need for housing, a review of any anticipated
service needs, and a criminal
background check.
Lunde did not immediately respond
when asked about the minimum or
maximum incomes required of veteran
applicants, the range of rents for
the apartments, or when vets can begin
applying.
The remaining 52 units will be
available to residents who make between
50 and 60 percent of the area
COMING SOON: The new development will
bring 134 below-market-rate apartments to
Coney Island. Concern for Independent Living
median income. Those locals can apply
for units through the city’s online
Housing Connect platform when the
application becomes available later
this month, Lune said.
Twenty-four of those 52 apartments
will be for residents who earn 50 percent
of the area median income, which
is $41,750 for a two-person household
or $52,150 for a four-person household,
according to city data . The other 28
units are for locals making 60 percent
of the area median income, which data
shows is $50,100 for a two-person or
$62,580 for a four-person household.
The Housing Connect system randomly
selects applicants at the end of
the 60-day application period, based
on eligibility and individuals whose
requests the city prioritizes, such as
municipal employees, Lunde said.
The so-called affordable units are
required in the Surf Vets Place development
because it sits within the special
Coney Island District, a product of
the area’s 2009 rezoning , which mandates
that builders set aside 35 percent
of units in complexes within the
district for low- and moderate-income
families who earn between 51 percent
and 120 percent of the area’s median
income, which comes out to between
$53,193 and $125,160 for a four-person
household.
GOLDEN
Nov. 13, and began counting them the
following day, but reps for the state
and local board did not immediately
comment when asked about the status
of the abentee-ballot count.
A rep for the state board, however,
previously told this newspaper that the
county board has until Dec. 3 to fi nish
its count, before the state board’s Dec.
14 deadline to certify the results.
Golden, a former cop whose general
election-loss is the pol’s fi rst in his
eight terms as a representative in Albany’s
upper house, said he is proud of
his record as a legislator, and that he
looks forward to continuing to serve
his district as a private citizen.
“I am so proud of what I have accomplished,”
Golden said. “Although
we came up just short this election, I
am grateful my career in public service
has been full of much success as a
police offi cer and as an elected offi cial.
My supporters, neighbors, and friends
can be sure that I will still always look
for opportunities to make our neighborhoods
an even better place to live,
work, and raise a family.”
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