Inwood Affordable Housing Proposal

The proposal represents a comprehensive and thoughtful response to the needs of the Inwood community. At its foundation, our project addresses the community — and the city’s — urgent need for affordable housing: delivering 620 apartments designed to provide their residents with a secure, high-quality living environment. By addressing a range of income levels (from 30-80% AMI) and life situations — from families with children to older adults seeking opportunities to age in place to at-risk youth who will benefit from the supportive services provided by The Children’s Village’s — the development meets the needs clearly communicated in the Community Visioning Report.

The inclusion of large scale and thoughtfully-planned public amenities by the world-renowned landscape architecture firm Sasaki — landscaped open areas, direct access for water recreation, and spaces for passive recreation and community gathering — provide opportunities for healthy leisure and community gathering. Through ROW New York’s new state-of-the-art boathouse, training facility, and floating dock boat launch, the project brings the community not only to the waterfront, but out onto the water.

The  proposal encompasses the following distinguishing features:

• 620 Affordable apartments across three buildings
  • Bookending the site, two ELLA buildings with NY15/15 supportive housing for young people (from foster care, the juvenile justice system or a history of trafficking) provided by The Children’s Village
  • In between those towers, a SARA building managed by Settlement Housing Fund
• A 3E STEM Hub serving all ages with educational, vocational, and specialized (environmental, entrepreneurship support, physiology-focused, etc.) STEM curricula; managed by a consortium of experienced STEM education and adult education operators including The Children’s Village, SecondMuse, and the YM & YWHA of Inwood and Washington Heights
• A state-of-the-art athletic training and rowing education facility with integrated boat storage, facilitating easy access via an adjacent floating (non-anchored) dock, for ROW New York (ROW NYC) whose mission is to make the discipline of competitive rowing accessible to New Yorkers from all walks of life, along with rigorous academic support
• Over 35,000 square feet of publicly accessible, highly programmed outdoor amenities and waterfront promenades designed by world-class landscape architects
• Sustainable design and construction at the forefront
  • Geothermal ground-source heat pumps to reduce energy consumption, generate investment tax credits to help capitalize the project
  • Building to Passive House standard, full electrification, with highly efficient PTHP HVACs, on-site stormwater management, and flood resiliency

Partners:

The Hudson Companies

Settlement Housing Fund

The Children’s Village

Titanium Realty Group

MHG Architects

Steven Winter Associates

Sasaki