Green Communities
Intervale Green: Affordable, Sustainable, & Wired in the Bronx
Intervale Green is a $45 million, 127-unit affordable housing development under construction in the Morrisania section of the Bronx. Project sponsor WHEDC teamed with energy consultant Steven Winter Associates to reduce the building’s expected energy costs by 35 percent through numerous sustainable design elements, including the installation of EnergyStar appliances and light fixtures. Other green design features include two different green roofs, low-e windows, and non-toxic paints and sealants- important because the Morrisania neighborhood holds the unfortunate distinction of the highest asthma rate in the Bronx
Popularity: 33% [?]
2Jul2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
Serviam Gardens: Affordable Green Living for Bronx Seniors
Serviam Gardens will be a 240-unit housing development for low- to middle-income senior citizens when it opens in the last quarter of 2009. Developed by Bronx-based affordable housing developer Fordham Bedford Housing Corporation, the $66 million project is set to break ground tomorrow and will rise in a vacant lot behind Mount Saint Ursula’s convent and girls’ high school in Bedford Park in the Bronx. OCV Architects designed the two-tower project, which will incorporate a number of unspecified green design features pursuant to Enterprise Green Communities Criteria.
Popularity: 26% [?]
1Jul2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
David & Joyce Dinkins Gardens: First Green Exclusively Affordable Housing Development in Harlem
On Monday, Jonathan Rose Companies and the Harlem Congregations for Community Improvement (“HCCI”), co-developers of David & Joyce Dinkins Gardens, opened the $19.5 million, 85-unit green building at 263 West 153rd Street, just across the Harlem River from Yankee Stadium between Frederick Douglass Boulevard and Macomb Place. The project is named for former New York City Mayor David Dinkins and his wife- Mr. Dinkins is the only African-American to serve as mayor in Gotham’s history- and the development is part of Mayor Bloomberg’s plan to build 165,000 units of affordable housing for 500,000 New Yorkers over the next ten years.
Popularity: 32% [?]
1Apr2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 4 comments | Continued
Green Affordable Housing: Jacob’s Place, Bronx, New York
Jacob’s Place is a sixty-three unit, eight-story rental building in the Fordham section of the Bronx that was dedicated earlier this month. Developed by Fordham Bedford Housing Corporation, a Bronx-based affordable housing developer, the project broke ground in August of 2005 and is named for Astin Jacobo, a resident of the Crotona neighborhood of the […]
Popularity: 26% [?]
31Oct2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 3 comments | Continued
NYC’s Affordable Housing Developers May Face Renewed Battle Over Green Building Mandate
An interesting item appeared in this week’s print edition of Crain’s New York Business. The New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (“HPD”) is apparently considering the use of the Enterprise Community Partners’ Green Communities rating system in connection with affordable housing development here in New York. Crain’s reports that HPD Commissioner Shaun […]
Popularity: 11% [?]
16Mar2007 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued-
Sponsors
-
Green Building Photo Pool
www.flickr.com 
More pics or contribute -
NYC Blogs
