Two Fridays ago, a groundbreaking ceremony was held for Mosholu Gardens, an eight-story housing development with 63 low-income units located at 245 Mosholu Parkway North, in the Norwood neighborhood of the Bronx.
The building will be developed through a partnership of Acacia Network, the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) and other groups.
The units will be available to individuals earning no more than $34,860. Residents of Mosholu Gardens will have access to on-site services such as laundry facilities, a 24-hour concierge, resident attendant services and a computer facility. Other services will include case management and access to Acacia’s network of healthcare, housing, educational and social services.
Thirty-nine of the units will house members of the special needs population and formerly homeless residents. Each unit will include private kitchens and bathrooms and have access to indoor and outdoor communal garden areas.
In total, the project cost roughly $15 million. Many funds have been received from HPD, The National Equity Fund (NEF) and other organizations in order to help develop the new housing. The construction of the Mosholu Gardens is expected to be completed by August 1, 2013.
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Why is this good? The neighborhood is already becoming overcrowded. Plus, why does it need to be low-income? The case management aspect of it hints that this might be housing for the mentally ill. There is also a low-income housing complex going up on 200 East Mosholu Parkway South in a lot where there previously was a one-family house and drive way. Is there some kind of plan to destroy whatever is left of the Bronx and to replace everything with substandard, low-income housing?
Great move!
Hey , this is crazy. The area have enough low income people in the area. We need more middle and upper middle people to bring money into the area. To inject new life.
The Bronx in the North is done. sorry to say!
NO WONDER WHY MY SISTER AND HER FAMILY MOVE TO ROCKLAND COUNTY .
This sounds like a great opportunity for a fresh start. How might one obtain an application for residence?
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This project will destroy this little bit of good we have in mosholu parkway. And if there going to build something like this they might as well make it a pet friendly building because this area houses many pets me included. To also include why only low income why can’t people like myself who makes over 35k apply for these apartments it’s just not fair!!! Stop this project before you ruin this neighborhood!!!
SHANNON LEE AND TO THE OTHERS
WHO THINK NEGATIVE SHAME ON YOU
YOU SHOULD BE DISAPPOINTED IN
YOUR SELVES YOU GUYS MAY BE MIDDLE CLASS
BUT YOU PERSONALITY AND HEART
IS LOWER CLASS
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http://www.change.org/petitions/bronx-borough-president-preserve-the-northwest-bronx-bedford-park-norwood-van-cortlandt-village
how can i get an application ?
The buildind is being built is so cramed into tthe lot. This propeety once contained a house.Will the poor people have or be able to gget help to find work so they can pay their oown rent.I hope these people do”nt make noiseand deal drugs. More middle income families need to move into this neighborhood.
The Norwood section of the Bronx is becoming a place for the poor to live in and Is for peopele who are lazy. Who else wants to move into the Bronx.
We need this construction since rent is very expensive in NYC,i want to know when it will be completed and when are you recieving applications will be the first in line.
HOW CAN I OBTAIN AN APPLICATION?
How can I apply for an apartment at 245 east Mosholu Gardens
For those who think low income makes a diference in class of education and aristocratic manners…let me tell you there is a lot of educated inteligent people with low income. The elderly and all those who never agree with a system that gives power to a bunch of burros who don5 even know the basic values
People who really need low income apartment never get it now Mather hwo many applications the feel so is not my concern you guy can build 1000 of them ok good luck
It is now 2017. Very little social services are being offered and residents of the building use. One tenants blast hip and and rap music from 11pm to 7am on week days and does not give a crap about ow people stay awake and what time is it to play your music because they do not have to go to work or schhool. One night in the dead of winter this tenant had the window open and the crazed out hip and hop and obscene rap songs were blarring out the. wndows till 8am in the morning. That morning it was 8 deegrees.This building is an eye sore on Mosholu PArkway and some of its occupants are ignorant and disrespectful.I hope management.evicted the tenants that are causing a lot of noise very late in the night. Shame on you! There is no security guard in the lobby to make sure tenants do”my act up and live in the building peacefully.
It is now April 2027. There is a nasty tenant in the back of the building that looks out to Rochambeau Avenue.This punk ass blast hop hop Ana rap cra p music from the opened apartment window. This noise disturbed and harasses many people from getting sleep I’m several apartment buildings that are near this building. The music starts at 10pm and turns off at 8am the next morning. This occupant does not give a dame that he or she is keeping people awake that have to go to school and work. Management of this building please kick this jerk or jerks out of the building. I wonder what services are the occupants receiving from the services that are offered to get these people to become real adults in our community.