Plan for senior housing advances
The city is moving ahead on a plan to create 250 new apartments for low-income seniors on the site of the Betances Houses in Mott Haven. The New York City Housing Authority, Department of Housing…
Neglected backyard opens as a community garden
Once the garden is up and running, produce harvested there will be sold at a local farmer’s market at affordable prices.
Mott Haven shut out of federal housing grant
Thirty million federal dollars that the New York City Housing Authority could have used to rebuild dilapidated housing complexes, revitalize residential plazas and expand early childhood education will instead go…
Neighborhood transformation plan unveiled
After two years of intensive planning for what they hope will be a major facelift to the neighborhood, residents at a Nov. 5 public meeting in Mott Haven finally saw…
NYCHA plan enters home stretch
Some fifty residents gathered at the Betances Houses Community Center on a recent Friday evening for a night of film screenings and performances, and to discuss updates to the Choice…
NYCHA residents dream big
Mott Haven public housing residents are vying for a grant from a federal program that will provide big money for a few lucky communities nationwide.