If Jersey City is serious about improving its quality of life, it should tell developers to set aside apartments for fledgling dog walkers, trainee barbers, neophyte bus drivers and cobbler's apprentices.
Queens Community Board 2, which includes Hunters Point, voted to approve the mayor's plan but recommended that the city reduce the subsidies for higher-income families and set aside apartments for lower-income residents.
Proofreaders, volleyball coaches, baristas and short-order cooks all play a vital role in this society, yet we never hear of any developer setting aside apartments for them.
Developers of Manhattan's most expensive new rental buildings routinely receive rich packages of government tax breaks and benefits in exchange for setting aside apartments for people with modest incomes.
To respond to the emergency, city officials temporarily froze the waiting list this year and set aside 470 apartments for evacuees who lost their homes.
Ritz-Carlton also set aside 12 apartments on the hotel's upper floors, ranging from 3,895 to 9,500 square feet and designed as full-time residences.
Adding to the area's allure are 25-year real estate tax abatements granted a number of new buildings, including the Douglass, under the city's 421-a plan, which rewards projects that set aside some apartments at reduced prices for low-income buyers.
The landlord has set aside blocks of apartments in each one of them as rentals, brokers said.
She noted that seven rezoning proposals had been submitted in her district, and that she was pushing for developments to set aside 40 percent of apartments as affordable housing.
My co-op wants to rent out the apartment set aside for the super.
