Several residents of 400 Grand Street, which is scheduled to be demolished to make way for the Essex Crossing development, say they continue to get the run-around by the city. Last night, they turned to Community Board 3 for help. In 2011, CB3 voted in favor of a resolution urging the Department of Housing Preservation […]
If you still doubt that the former Seward Park urban renewal site is finally poised for redevelopment, here’s some additional proof. The Department of Buildings has approved a pre-demolition plan two buildings on site #5 of the Essex Crossing mixed-use project. According to city records, the DOB signed off on the application at 400 and […]
400 Grand St.
The residents of 400 Grand St., six people, have spent the past four years trying fruitlessly to get the attention of their landlord, the City of New York. Now, just three months from a preliminary move out date, the only residential tenants remaining on the former Seward Park Urban Renewal Area, remain in limbo. This week, they pleaded their case yet again before Community Board 3’s land use committee. City officials were there to listen, but the residents have little faith; many of them feel they might as well be talking to a brick wall.
The five-story tenement is located on site #5 of the Essex Crossing project, which is set to break ground in the spring of 2015. Recently, the residents learned they were being asked to move out at the end of June, so the developers can begin preparing the site for construction. Over the years, CB3 has passed multiple resolutions, urging the city to focus on their situation. While officials with the Department of Housing
After months of pleas from their attorneys and from Community Board 3, the city has finally agreed to give six families living in a doomed building at 400 Grand St. priority status for new affordable apartments in the Essex Crossing project. The decision from the commissioner of the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) […]
As we reported yesterday, six remaining tenants at 400 Grand Street, which will be demolished next year to make way for the Essex Crossing project, are fighting for relocation rights. But another tenant in the building, the Lower East Side Jewish Conservancy, is also concerned about its future.
400 Grand Street.
The conservancy, part of the United Jewish Council of the East Side, established its first dedicated home in a 650 square foot storefront at 400 Grand in 2011. The space had previously been occupied by Ruby’s Fruits, a Lower East Side institution. But the building will likely be emptied and torn down next year in preparation for new residential and commercial development set to rise on nine long-neglected sites in the former Seward Park Urban Renewal Area.