Wyckoff Gardens in Brooklyn and Holmes Towers in Manhattan will be the first two sites chosen under a controversial proposal by the New York City Housing Authority to allow developers to build half affordable and half market-rate housing on public land, POLITICO New York has learned.
NYCHA expects the program, which it is calling "NextGen Neighborhoods," will create about 1,000 units of housing.
That is a fraction of the 7,500 mixed-income units the housing authority wants to build on public land over the next 10 years.