NEW YORK — Nearly 200 families are about to start moving into their brand-new affordable apartments at Marcus Garvey Village in Central Harlem. A vision that started decades ago has finally come to fruition.
Seventy thousand applicants anticipated the lottery assignments for 170 all-affordable apartments along 124th Street, for families making 50% of the area median income or less.
$100 million project completed in Harlem
The $100 million project was subsidized by the city and the market rate neighbors in the attached apartment building next door.
“We basically took the exact same concepts of what we did and worked in the market-rate building and just put that here,” explained developer Ed Poteat.
Poteat made sure the amenities are not all for the lucky families who will live there. Also opening for groups to gather is a plaza named for the late longtime local leader Bill Perkins , paying homage to Poteat’s mentor.