An overview of 388 Hudson St. in Greenwich Village, a city-owned property to be redeveloped with affordable housing and other uses.
Courtesy NYC Department of Housing Preservation and Development
City officials shared with Greenwich Village residents Wednesday night the results of its community engagement process for the all-affordable rental building on city-owned property at 388 Hudson St.
Representatives of the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) presented Manhattan Community Board 2’s Land Use Committee with the results of its months-long community visioning process, which will be included in the site’s request for proposal to guide applicants as they submit designs for the building.
The results of outreach that the agency tabulated from both in-person and virtual events show that a slim majority of residents want a community or cultural space on the building’s non-residential ground floor; they overwhelmingly prefer a mix of rental homes for both lower and middle class households; and they want a low-to-mid-rise building.
The reactions to HPD’s survey results were mixed.
Committee members raised concerns and clarifications about the non-residential space on the ground floor, the permanence of affordable housing and the distance that the building would have to be setback from the sidewalk for infrastructural reasons, among others.
Though the HPD’s questionnaire results found that a 53% of respondents were in favor of a community space, just above 49% in favor of a grocery store, members of the community board noted that they had specifically ask for a cold weather recreation space, and asked for that to be reflected in the materials it sends out, which HPD spokesperson Tyler Tichenor said it would be.
On the depth of the setback from the street, Tichenor said that the city Department of Environmental Protection would not know how much space the developer would have to leave to protect ground infrastructure until…
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