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 Lily House – Domestic Violence survivors
and their children have a temporary home during their
transition from emergency shelter to permanent housing
in the newly built Lily House. This licensed transitional
residence serves 31 families awaiting permanent homes.
While the exact location of this project is confidential,
the six-story art deco building houses a licensed daycare
facility, job training space, community rooms, and
a garden with a play area in addition to the seven
studios, five 1-bedroom, eleven 2-bedroom, and four
3-bedroom apartments.
Financing for this project comes from the New York
State Residences for Survivors of Violence Program,
the Bronx Borough President, the U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban Development, banks, foundations and
individual donors.
307 E. 54th Street Inclusionary Project – New
Destiny partnered with World Wide Group to participate
in the New York City Inclusionary Zoning Program,
a program encouraging the development of mixed
income housing. World Wide renovated the five-story
elevator building which includes eight affordable apartments
- four studios and four 2-bedrooms, in exchange for
a zoning bonus for a luxury condominium project. New
Destiny assumed ownership of the completed building
in Summer 2005.
Freedom House - Barrier Free Living, a not-for-profit
organization dedicated to helping people with disabilities
live independently in the community, is the Sponsor
of an 86-bed emergency residence serving disabled domestic
violence survivors. New Destiny was the Developer of
this newly constructed five-story facility that contains
44 apartments for women and children who are mobility-impaired,
sight-impaired or hearing-impaired. The project also
contains staff offices, training rooms, common meeting
space and a childcare space where Barrier Free Living
provides a range of services to residents. This is
the only emergency facility in New York City’s
domestic violence shelter system that is entirely accessible
to the disabled. The $8.9 million project was funded
by the New York State Homeless Housing & Assistance
Corporation and the Manhattan Borough President. Construction
began in December 2004 with occupancy in the spring
of 2006.
Nazareth House - Nazareth Housing,
Inc., a Lower East Side social service organization,
sponsored the conversion of a parochial school, vacant
for more than 50 years, into 13 units of affordable
housing and 2 units of transitional housing. Located
on East 4th Street on Manhattan’s Lower East
Side, the school is owned by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese
of N.Y. and the Church of the Most Holy Redeemer and
leased to Nazareth Housing. Construction began in July
2004 and was completed in Winter 2005. The $2.85 million
project cost was funded by the City, the State, the
Federal government and charitable foundations. New
Destiny served as the Developer of the project.
281 Bainbridge Street - The latest
addition to the properties New Destiny owns in
Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, this small, multi-family
apartment building is home to eight families earning
less than 74% of the New York City median income.
New Destiny purchased the property, vacant for over
20 years, in 2001, and a gut renovation began in 2003.
The building, containing seven 2-bedrooms and one
studio, was occupied in summer 2004. Services are provided
through New Destiny’s
Housing Support Coordinator.
Bridge Community – Acquired in 1998,
this turn of the century building had been
vacant for over ten years. New Destiny restored this
12,600 square foot building into 12 units, 3 studios,
1 one-bedroom, 5 two-bedrooms and 3 three-bedrooms,
one-third of which are reserved for domestic violence
survivors. In the true sense of its name, residents
of this affordable rental project in Bedford-Stuyvesant,
Brooklyn, have bridged their community to form active
tenant association.
Bridge Towers – Just down the
street from Bridge Community, New Destiny acquired
two restored walk-up tenements in a family-friendly
neighborhood comprised of multi-family buildings and
2- and 3- family row houses. This 16-unit property
is now home to residents who were previously homeless
or at risk of homelessness – at least half of
whom have a history of domestic violence. |
