Broadway Triangle Protestors Join Development Team

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK -- Advocacy groups who sued New York City for racial discrimination at the Broadway Triangle have signed on to help develop the site, according to officials and reports.

Unified Neighborhood Partners will work with developer Mega Contracting Group and the Department of Housing Preservation and Development to bring almost 400 "affordable" apartments to three lots on the Bed-Stuy, Bushwick and Williamsburg border, according to HPD and a Wall Street Journal.

“After almost a decade in litigation, Broadway Triangle, one of the largest remaining City-owned sites in North Brooklyn, will soon start a new chapter," said Acting HPD Commissioner Eric Enderlin.

“The selected development team has deep ties to the area, and has proposed a plan that not only provides 380 deeply affordable homes, but responds to the diverse needs of the broader community"

Unified Neighborhood Partners, which includes St. Nicks Alliance and Los Sures, will join the team years after filing a lawsuit that claimed original development designs favored the Hasidic community.

The lawsuit was settled in 2017 and construction is slated to begin on the first of three parcels in 2020, city records show.

The Broadway Triangle is also the site of a Rabsky Group eight-building development and a similar discrimination suit against the developer was dismissed in July, the Real Deal reported.

Los Sures executive director Juan Ramos, who was arrested protesting the Broadway Triangle development at a planning hearing in 2017, said he hoped his involvement in the project would mean more affordable housing for his community.

"The one thing we know is that our community needs affordable housing," Ramos stated.

"Coming together to do this project shows the level of commitment each organization has to its community and their needs”