The one where a nonprofit's retired founder came back to rezone a 50-year-vacant Bronx lot into HIV/AIDS supportive hous

A nonprofit founder who'd already retired came back specifically for 893 Eagle Avenue , an 11-story, 100%-affordable building rising on a Bronx lot that sat vacant for over half a century. Fifty studio units are dedicated to people living with HIV/AIDS, served by a bilingual, bicultural program, with a 50% preference for local community-board residents. The team (Sheldon Lobel PC's Richard Lobel, the nonprofit's founder, and architect Tony Shatemi) walked the subcommittee through an all-electric, low-carbon design wedged into a steep, rock-outcropped grade. Already backed by the community boar