Organization: Northwest Bronx Community Clergy Coalition Address: 103 E 196th St, Bronx, NY Status: Will initially focus on seeking city-owned land, state land, vacant property or other opportunities to build a CLT in Bronx Community District 7, then expand to Community Districts 5 and 6, Council Districts 11, 12, 14 and 15. Looking at both rental and ownership, and potentially later commercial and industrial sites. |
Organization: Nos Quedamos Address: 754 Melrose Ave, Bronx, NY 10451 Status: Did not respond by press time. |
Organization: Mott Haven-Port Morris Community Land Stewards Address: 348 East 140th Street Bronx Status: Hopes to acquire a vacant Health and Hospitals building at 348 East 140th Street and convert into nonprofit and community space. Hopes to acquire MTA substation at 351 East 139th Street to build 200 low-income rental units. Also envisions incorporating waterfront properties into the CLT to be used as green spaces, and currently already stewards green spaces along the Deegan Expressway. Continues to study the potential for development on other sites in the neighborhood. |
Organization: Bananan Kelly CIA Inc. Address: 863 Prospect Ave, Bronx Status: CLT will start with three low-income co-ops that are already in its portfolio, spanning about 14 or 15 buildings or 330 units. Eventually intends to move about 1,000 properties units onto the CLT. The CLT has been formed through a split title arrangement with Joint Ownership Entity (JOE). |
Organization: Cooper Square Address: 59 E 4th Street, New York, NY Status: Fully established CLT in Lower East Side. 328 units, spread across 21 buildings. Most of the units were converted from rentals to low-income co-ops. Also may acquire two HDFC buildings including 18 units each and would like to gain the desanctified Church of Nativity, which might fit 80 to 100 units of housing. |
Organization: Interboro Address: 9028 161st St, Jamaica, NY Status: In process of establishing CLT, with potential projects citywide. Will begin with 250 affordable home ownership units. First projects will likely be in Southeast Queens and Central Brooklyn. |
Organization: East Harlem-El Barrio Address: 104 E 126th St #1B, New York, NY 10035 Status: Planning low-income rental Mutual Housing Association across four buildings encompassing 37 apartments in East Harlem; hopes to expand beyond this. |
Organization: CAAAV Address: 55 Hester St, New York, NY 10002 Status: Early stage. Would hopefully preserve low-income housing and community businesses. |
Organization: Faith in New York - Northern Manhattan Address: 530 West 166th Street, New York, NY Status: Early stage. Looking at potential for a CLT that provides low-income housing. Would likely target Manhattan Community Board 12 or Council District 10 and parts of the neighboring council district. Community Board 12 recently identified a DOT-owned property at 672 W 158th St as one of other potential future sites for a CLT, according to CLT working group member Paul Epstein. |
Organization: Community Solutions Address: 444 Thomas Boyland Street, Brooklyn Status: Hopes to begin by acquiring the six HPD-owned sites listed in the city's Brownsville RFP. Ultimately envisions expanding the land trust to other HPD lots, which a 2015 study conducted by the Brownsville Partnership and Pratt Institute showed had the potential to yield over 1,000 units. Would include affordable housing both rental and homeownership. |
Organization: Cypress Hills LDC Address: 2836 Fulton Street, Brooklyn Status: Early stage. Hopes to build new affordable homeownership units on a CLT, and then potentially invite existing homeowners onto the CLT. At some point would like to explore the idea of a manufacturing CLT. |
Organization: Northfield Community LDC Address: 160 Heberton Ave, Staten Island Status: Very early stage |
Organization: Mary Mitchell Center Address: 2007 Mapes Ave, Bronx Status: Hopes to acquire 2007 Mapes Ave, a city-owned building where the organization's center is located, and redevelop it with community space and about 40 units of low-income housing, likely mostly rental but possibly with co-ops. Also hopes CLT can acquire Garden of Youth, owned by NBCCC, which would remain a community garden, and 2107 Mapes Avenue, a vacant 4-story building already owned by Mary Mitchell Center that could be used for nonprofit office and community space. Continues to explore other potential sites in the neighborhood. |