NEW YORK (AP) — New York City officials have broken ground on a new affordable housing development in West Harlem.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Thursday that the new Sugar Hill development will bring high-quality affordable housing as well as construction jobs and other benefits to the community.
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Sugar Hill will be 13 stories with 124 affordable apartments. Of those, 25 will be reserved for formerly homeless families. Construction is expected to be complete in the spring of 2014.
The development will include a preschool for up to 120 children. It also will have space for the privately funded Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling.
It is being funded with $80 million in government, private equity and philanthropic funds.
Apartments will be rented through a lottery system.
