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1093-1095 Jerome Avenue
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Subcommittee on Landmarks, Public Sitings and Dispositions · Wednesday, February 26, 2025
The one where a decade-long Bronx tenant fight to wrest a $27M-in-arrears building from its owner finally reaches the Co
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Bronx tenants at 2201-05 Davidson Avenue have spent over a decade fighting deplorable conditions while their owner piled up roughly $27 million in municipal arrears. HPD asked the subcommittee to use its third-party transfer program to hand the building to Neighborhood Restore for rehab, with all 48 affordable units' tenants guaranteed a right to return. Council Member Pierina Ana Sanchez and the Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition backed the rescue. The meeting also cleared a routine NYC Health and Hospitals lease covering nine city clinics, and previewed a 100%-affordable, 11-stor
From the room
“disposition of city owned land to a developer to be selected by HBD and the designation and approval of an urban development action area”
— Astrid Walker Stewart
“HPD has completed a significant amount of emergency repairs pertaining to roof repairs, heating repairs, plumbing repairs, lead abatement, mold abatement”
— Arvind Sindwani
“2201 Davidson Avenue, an application for HPD for an Article 11 tax exemption and urban development action area projects”
— Kamillah Hanks
“delayed by close to two years New York City Health and Hospitals receipt of approximately $10 million in federal American Rescue Plan grants.”
— Maedel De La Cruz
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The decisions
402LU 0238-2025G 250066 HHYLaid over
H+H Operating Agreement
DCAS's application to transfer nine city-owned properties by lease to NYC Health and Hospitals was taken up as Land Use 0238-2025. The lease mechanism brings the nine sites under H+H's control through the existing city-H+H operating agreement.
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2201 Davidson Avenue
04LU 0248-2025G 250067 XAXLaid over
2201 Davidson Avenue Article XI
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CB Bronx Community Board 4
Conditions
- If tenants do not meet milestones to convert to a cooperative, building remains a rental project at rent and income restrictions set by HPD multifamily dispositions and finance program terms
- Program policy requires tenants to enter relocation agreements with sponsor; HPD reviews them; all tenants have a right to return if relocated
- During Neighborhood Restore's interim ownership, rents are kept at the level residents paid prior to foreclosure; rent changes occur only when the property goes through construction financing into subsequent ownership
- correct oversights and add nine properties
Questions & answers
Kamillah Hanks: Requests clarification of the timeline for the transfer/transaction
Kamillah Hanks: Whether HPD expects temporary relocation of tenants will be necessary
Kamillah Hanks: How the agency will guarantee tenants can exercise their right to return
Kamillah Hanks: How will new rents be determined?
Kamillah Hanks: How will the new rents differ from the existing rents?
+11 more exchanges
Citations & precedent
Intro 1063 — Housing, Rescue, and Resident Protection Act · Pierina Ana Sanchez
New York State statute of 1969 establishing NYC Health and Hospitals · Maedel De La Cruz
Procedure
- members of the public given two minutes to speak — Kamillah Hanks
- Sergeant-at-Arms opens the hybrid subcommittee hearing, asks for silence and silenced devices — Kamillah Hanks
- Chair notes the meeting is held in hybrid (in-person + remote) format — Kamillah Hanks
- Public wishing to testify remotely must register online and remain signed on to Zoom until they have testified — Kamillah Hanks
+31 more procedural steps
Where it standsCB Bronx Community Board 4 ✓→Committee→Full Council
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The people
Public testimony: 1 in favor
Practitioners & applicants
Douglas Blomberg · Kamillah Hanks · Arvind Sindwani · HPD panelist (unnamed) · Committee Clerk / Counsel (unnamed)
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The intelligence
Every parcel, owner, and applicant in this meeting, cross-referenced against Zonable’s NYC ownership, enforcement & legislative graph — the record behind the record.
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Owner portfolios, open OATH/ECB violations, 311 & DOB permits across every parcel discussed, developer track records, and an “ask this meeting” chat. For this meeting: 1,413 oath/ecb hearings across the 1 site discussed.
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