Bartlett Crossing Breaks Ground
On July 7, elected officials, NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), NYS Homes and Community Renewal (HCR), and United Neighborhood Partners (UNP): a united partnership of Southside United HDFC – Los Sures, RiseBoro, United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg and North Brooklyn, and St. Nicks Alliance celebrated the ground breaking of Bartlett Crossing at 43 Bartlett Street.
Once completed, Bartlett Crossing will add 78 units of affordable housing to the Broadway Triangle, this is the second phase of a larger community-led redevelopment that will ultimately create 390 affordable homes on formerly vacant, city-owned land.
“While we’re here to celebrate, we need to understand the struggle. Also because we have a new administration that wasn’t here during this fight. Our mayor was only 15 when we started this fight,” began Juan Ramos, executive director of Southside United HDFC – Los Sures. “It was a time in the City’s history when this community decided to challenge its city and its officials. And we did that, and we fought, and we lost in the beginning, and we said we’re not going to give up.” He gave credit to the elected officials that supported them: U.S. Representative Nydia Velázquez, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, and Assembly Member Maritza Davila, some in different roles than their current ones, some in the same roll. “It took us over six years and the City finally settled with us. That was a major victory for the City, a major victory for this community,” said Ramos.
At a 2025 ribbon cutting for Throop Corners, another site in the UNP Broadway Triangle development, Michael Rochford, executive director of St. Nicks Alliance, summed up the creation of this multi-community organizational partnership, “For four nonprofits to come together to develop five properties is an extraordinary thing. We were all willing to work together and put community need ahead of organizational benefit. We came together with vision and equity to ensure publicly owned land would yield affordable housing, and ensure the properties are permanently affordable in partnership with New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) and local elected.”
Bartlett Crossing consists of two buildings located at 667 Flushing Avenue and 31 Bartlett Street. The development will offer a mix of studio, one-, two-, three-, and four-bedroom apartments affordable to households earning up to 80 percent of the Area Median Income. Sixteen apartments will receive project-based rental assistance through HPD, and approximately 10 percent of the homes will be reserved for formerly homeless individuals and families.
Residents will have access to community rooms, landscaped outdoor spaces, laundry facilities, package rooms, bicycle and stroller storage, and broadband service throughout both buildings. Located within walking distance of the G, J, and M subway lines and several bus routes, the transit-oriented development provides residents with convenient access to jobs, schools, and services throughout New York City.
State financing for Bartlett Crossing includes HCR’s Federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credit Program that will generate approximately $26 million in equity and $7.2 million in subsidy. The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority is providing $312,000. The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation is providing Brownfield tax credits that will generate $3.5 million in equity.
The City of New York is providing substantial support for this project, including designating UNP to develop all three phases of the community plan. HPD is providing $20. 3 million in New Construction Financing. The offices of NYC Council and Brooklyn Borough President contributed $4 million in discretionary Capital. HPD also provided tenant rental assistance and real estate tax exemption.
Additional project financing was provided by Bank of New York Mellon during construction and Cedar Rapids Bank and Trust as permanent lender. The Brownfield and Low-Income Housing Tax credits were syndicated by CREA LLC with investment equity from Bank of New York Mellon.
Bartlett Crossing is expected to be completed in spring 2028.
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