An affordable-housing triumph, tempered by pragmatism

Ryan Hutchins

Mayor Bill de Blasio used words like “extraordinary” and “visionary” to describe a new mixed-use affordable housing development that's built high atop Harlem's Sugar Hill, a place the likes of W.E.B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall and Duke Ellington once called home.

“This development we're in—this building is, in a sense, an epitome of so many of the things that we believe in and want to do,” de Blasio said Monday at an event previewing the project, which was put together by Broadway Housing Communities and opens this summer.

City Council Speaker Melissa-Mark Viverito said the building “kind of epitomizes what we really look forward to seeing happen moving forward as a progressive city, and as a city that is really inclusive of all.”

Comptroller Scott Stringer declared “this is the day that northern Manhattan changed.”


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