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Project: 570 East 137th Street

The West Side Federation for Senior and Supportive Housing hopes to build a nine-story, 159-unit building at 570 East 137th Street, at the corner of St. Ann’s Avenue. Construction on the development, dubbed Mill Brook Terrace, is expected to start later this year and wrap by 2019.

All of the apartments will be set aside for seniors who earn 50 percent or less of the Area Median Income, which is $36,250 for a family of two, according to a NYCHA fact sheet released last August. During the housing lottery selection process, current NYCHA residents will get preference for a quarter of the units.

The ground floor will feature a 9,000-square-foot senior center with a commercial kitchen, neighborhood community space, activity rooms for senior programming, and a public outdoor garden, followed by a landscaped shared terrace on the second floor. The upper floors will hold 120,900 square feet of residential space. Typical apartments would measure 760 square feet.

Perkins Eastman Architects is designing the building.

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