Crown Heights pols: Make new housing in Bedford-Union Armory all affordable, all the time
Elected Officials also say local residents should get preference for most apartments
They want it all. All affordable, that is.
That’s the message that was conveyed in a letter sent this week by four Crown Heights politicians to the head of the city’s Economic Development Corporation (EDC) regarding the contentious redevelopment of the city-owned Bedford-Union Armory.
In their letter to EDC President Maria Torres-Springer, U.S. Rep. Yvette Clarke, state Sen. Jesse Hamilton and state Assemblymembers Diana Richardson and Walter Mosley urged that all 300 planned new apartments in the redeveloped armory — not just 150, as proposed by developers — be offered at below market-rate prices.