BY MAYA HARRISON
Talk about dirty books!
Sunset Parkers joined local
pols and bookworms at a
ground-breaking ceremony to
kick off the redevelopment of
their neighborhood’s library,
which will reopen at twice its
size inside a building that also
boasts dozens of below-market
rate units when complete.
The new Sunset Park Library
building will provide a
valuable resource to residents
looking for a good read — and
those locals in need of so-called
affordable housing in the fastdeveloping
neighborhood, according
to its councilman.
“Sunset Park is now home
to both a modernized public library
grounded in a community
driven design effort, and
100-percent affordable housing
units,” Councilman Carlos
Menchaca said in remarks at
the Feb. 6 event. “This is a celebration
and a pioneering effort,
one that establishes Sunset
Park as a model for other
communities across the city
that are looking to call for resources
to meet critical needs.”
The branch at Fourth Avenue
and 51st Street closed its
doors last April to make way
for the massive project , which
will result in a branch roughly
half the size of a football fi eld,
with a dedicated space for
teens, a community room, and
outlet-equipped tables when
it opens sometime in 2021, library
bigwigs previously told
this newspaper.
The new building will also
NEW CHAPTER: Brooklyn Public Library honchos kicked off construction of the new Sunset Park Library building
at a Feb. 6 ground-breaking ceremony. Brooklyn Public Library
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include 49 permanently affordable
apartments — a mix
of 11 studios, 13 one-bedroom,
13 two-bedroom, and 12 threebedroom
units — that will be
doled out via the city’s housing
lottery as follows:
• Nine apartments will
be offered to locals making
30 percent of the area median
income, which is $25,050
for a two-person household
or $31,290 for a four-person
household, data shows .
• Nine apartments will
be offered to locals making
40 percent of the area median
income, which is $33,400
for a two-person household
or $41,720 for a four-person
household.
• Nine apartments will
be offered to locals making
50 percent of the area median
income, which is $41,750
for a two-person household
or $52,150 for a four-person
household.
• 12 apartments will be offered
to locals making 60 percent
of the area median income,
which is $50,100 for
a two-person household or
$62,580 for a four-person
household.
• 10 apartments will be offered
to locals making 80 percent
of the area median income,
which is $66,800 for
a two-person household or
$83,440 for a four-person
household.
Nine of those units will
be reserved for domestic-violence
survivors from the
neighborhood, with roughly
10 percent set aside for eligible
city employees, another 10 percent
for physically disabled locals,
and half for residents of
Sunset Park and Windsor Terrace,
according to information
from the library, which notes
the median income within the
district of local Community
Board 7 was $48,112.
Sunset Parkers seeking
a good book during their
branch’s makeover can swing
by the interim library that
opened inside a former Fourth
Avenue courthouse last year,
which also offers public computers,
classrooms, and a selfservice
laptop dispenser to patrons.
Work starts
on stacks
Library leaders break ground
on new Sunset Park branch
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