Bronx Community Board 6 voted unanimously on May 27 to oppose rezoning for a project that would create 366 new affordable housing units in Crotona/West Farms and new homes for 91 existing households.
The multiyear project, proposed by the nonprofit Phipps Houses, would involve constructing a 159-unit building on an empty lot at East 181st St. and Crotona Parkway. This site is referred to in the application as the “Sojourner Truth site” because it previously housed a family shelter by that name, also operated by Phipps Houses, a nonprofit established in 1905 with affordable housing throughout the Bronx, Queens, Manhattan and Brooklyn.
