Tuesday, November 14, 2017

Essex Crossing welcomes its first residents to the Lower East Side megaproject

The first few residents are moving into the senior housing building at 175 Delancey Street

The Essex Crossing megaproject welcomed its first set of residents on Monday, a little over two years after the development consortium on the project, Delancey Street Associates, broke ground.

The Lo-Down first learned of this development through a weekly construction update, which revealed that residential move-ins would begin at 175 Delancey Street on Monday. That structure is a 15-story building with 99 apartments for seniors.

The lottery on those one-bedroom apartments launched in April this year with rents starting at $396 per month. The apartments are open to seniors making between 30 to 90 percent of the area median income, and residents within Community Board 3 and the former Seward Park Extension Urban Renewal Area were give preference on the units.

This Dattner Architects-designed building has several retail and community facility components to it as well. Grand Street Settlement will open a coffee shop in January, according to the Lo-Down, followed by its senior center in February or March. NYU will open a 55,000-square-foot medical facility in the building, and there's an additional 4,000 square feet of retail available.

Delancey Street Associates expects that move-ins will be complete by the end of the year. As the Lo-Down notes, it's the first residential activity at the site since much of it was razed in the mid-'60s for the Seward Park urban renewal project—which eventually led to the megaproject rising there today.

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