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Library co-location projects with affordable housing and capital funding requests
0:27:45
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Marx highlights the library's efforts to combine new library construction with affordable housing projects and discusses additional capital funding requests from the city council.
- Successful co-location project in Inwood with 74 affordable housing units, universal pre-K, and a community center
- Planned projects at Grand Concourse in The Bronx and Bloomingdale Library in Upper Manhattan, totaling 800 new housing units
- Request for $30 million in lump sum allocation of capital funding from the city council
- Emphasis on addressing real housing needs for New Yorkers through these projects
- Call for inclusion of these efforts in the ten-year capital plan
Anthony "Tony" Marx
0:27:45
We are eager to continue to build colocation, lot new libraries with affordable housing on top as we did in Inwood.
0:27:54
Now they're beautiful, open, 74 affordable housing units on top, as well as a universal pre k and a community center.
0:28:04
We have now in the pipeline a similar project at Grand Concourse in The Bronx and the Bloomingdale Library in Upper Manhattan, will have 800 new housing units on top.
0:28:16
We want to do what we can to address the real needs of housing for New Yorkers.
0:28:22
Let's continue to do this.
0:28:24
Let's make it part of the ten year capital plan.
0:28:27
We've also requested, as Linda mentioned, $30,000,000 in lump sum allocation of capital funding from you, the council, our essential partner.
0:28:36
$10,000,000,000 for each borough that we serve, and we're grateful to the council for that kind of support and hope it will continue at that level, if not higher.
0:28:50
This is not the moment when we should be content to just stay the course.