Thursday, September 2, 2021

Luxury public housing apartments available at twin towers at Hunters Point

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Queens Post

 

TF Cornerstone has extended the deadline for applicants looking to snag an affordable housing unit in one of its towers on the Long Island City waterfront.

The developer announced Tuesday that applications are now being accepted through Sept. 13 to enter the lottery for one of its 534 affordable apartments on offer at 52-03 Center Blvd. The previous deadline was Aug. 31.

The units are located in one of TF Cornerstone’s two towers going up next to Hunters Point South Park. The apartments are in the developer’s 800-unit north tower. The 55-story north tower also includes 266 market rate units.

The south tower, located next door at 52-41 Center Blvd., is 44-stories high and contains 394 units–185 of which are designated as affordable. The application period for those affordable units ended last year.

The 534 affordable apartments now on offer include studios, one-bedrooms and two-bedrooms and are available to people who make a variety of incomes — from as low as 40 percent of the area median income (AMI) to as high as 165 percent of the AMI (see chart below).

Applicants who meet the eligibility requirements will be entered into the lottery for a unit.

Half of the affordable units are being set aside for residents of Queens Community Board 2, which covers Sunnyside, Woodside and Long Island City. Furthermore, 100 units are being designated for low-income seniors aged 62 and older.

 

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Why dose the % Area Median Income jump at 50% to 130% ?
Looks like they want only poor or rich no middle income earners...

Anonymous said...

Obviously one tower has no affordable/low-income units. So they'll call the one that does the "poor tower". That tower itself might even have a "poor door" for the low-income units.

Anonymous said...

At least this building has some reasonable AMI units. Unlike those luxury towers in the South Bronx and Jamaica.

Anonymous said...

In Biden’s America, it’s better not to be employed you get everthing for "free" !