Bartlett Crossing

Broadway Triangle spent decades as vacant city-owned land because nobody could agree who should get to live there.

Bartlett Crossing is the second phase of the settlement. Governor Hochul announced the start of construction on 7 July 2026 for a $71.5 million project delivering 78 permanently affordable apartments in two new nine-story buildings at 667 Flushing Avenue and 31 Bartlett Street in Brooklyn.

Project Scope

The developer is Unified Neighborhood Partners, a joint venture of four nonprofits that were on opposite sides of the original fight: St. Nicks Alliance, Southside United HDFC-Los Sures, RiseBoro Community Partnership, and United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg. Magnusson Architecture and Planning is the architect. Mega Contracting Group is the general contractor.

Unit mix runs studio through four-bedroom, affordable to households at up to 80 percent of area median income. Roughly eight units are filled by NYC HPD Homeless Services referrals and 16 carry project-based rental assistance. Five units are mobility-accessible and two are sensory-accessible.

Both buildings are fully electric, using high-efficiency VRF heating and cooling, energy recovery ventilators, and a high-performance envelope. Certifications targeted are Enterprise Green Communities Plus, ENERGY STAR Multifamily New Construction, and EPA Indoor airPLUS. The site is enrolled in the state DEC Brownfield Cleanup Program.

The capital stack is layered: about $26 million in federal and state LIHTC equity plus a $7.2 million HCR subsidy, $23 million from NYC HPD’s Extremely Low and Low-Income Affordability program, $312,000 from NYSERDA, roughly $3.5 million anticipated in Brownfield Tax Credit equity, $3 million in Reso A from Council Member Lincoln Restler, and $1 million from Borough President Antonio Reynoso.

Why It Matters

This is phase two of a three-phase, 390-unit program. Phase one, the 140-unit Throop Corners, finished in May 2025. Getting from a contested set of vacant lots to a built pipeline required a development entity that includes the parties who were suing each other, which is an unusual governance structure and the reason the project exists at all.

On the technical side, fully electric affordable housing at 80 percent AMI with VRF and ERVs is now routine in New York rather than exceptional, and the sub-$920,000 per-unit cost on a nine-story brownfield site in Brooklyn is the number worth benchmarking against. Seven funding sources is what it takes to get there.

Project Team & Details