Critical Home Repair in Staten Island
Brooklyn and Queens

In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy in 2013, Habitat NYC and Westchester sprang into action, launching our Critical Home Repair program to help low- to moderate-income homeowners repair their homes. Hurricane Sandy hit New York City on October 29, 2012, taking the lives of 53 New Yorkers, crippling the city and affecting countless New Yorkers. With the help of thousands of volunteers, we mucked out 61 homes in the immediate aftermath and in the proceeding four years, we have performed substantial repairs on 65 homes across Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island.

St. John’s Residences
Brooklyn

The 12-unit St. John’s residences in Ocean-Hill/Brownsville, Brooklyn provided a dozen hard-working families with safe, decent and affordable housing. Built on what was once a vacant lot, construction began on the building in 2011.

The Melody
The Bronx

Completed in 2011, the Melody is a 62-unit condominium in the Bronx. The Melody is the first building in New York City to be designed with features created to combat obesity, like a gym and climbing equipment for children.

Atlantic Avenue
Brooklyn

When we completed the 41-unit Atlantic Avenue building in 2009, it was the largest multi-family building ever built by Habitat for Humanity. It is LEED Gold certified, meaning the building saves residents some green and keeps Brooklyn green too.

The Fox-Leggett Co-op
The Bronx

In 2009, Habitat NYC and Westchester built our first-ever "green roof" atop the Fox-Leggett Co-op Apartments in the Longwood neighborhood of the Bronx. The 2,400-square-foot green roof insulates the building from the sun and absorbs up to an inch of rainfall. Eight of the 50 families selected to live in the building are Habitat Homebuyers.

150th Street
The Bronx

13 hard-working families became Habitat Homeowners in the spring of 2005, when we completed a row of attached homes on 150th Street in the south Bronx.

E. 170th Street
The Bronx

Our second project in the Bronx began in 2001 in the Tremont neighborhood. Six new single-family, attached row homes were completed in 2002.

Willoughby Avenue and Marcus Garvey Boulevard
Brooklyn

When construction began in 2001, this Brooklyn project was the largest Habitat NYC and Westchester had undertaken. The Willoughby Avenue project consists of 20 new, single-family, attached row houses.

2000 Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter Work Project
Manhattan

In 2000, Jimmy and Rosalyn Carter returned to New York City to complete Habitat for Humanity’s 100,000th home on 134th Street in Harlem. During the 2000 Carter Work Project, 2,000 volunteers completed another 19 homes in Jamaica, Queens, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, Crotona Park in the Bronx and in Central Harlem.

Single Family Homes in Queens

In 2000, we completed a portfolio of nine single-family homes across Queens, including in St. Albans, South Ozone Park, Jamaica, Springfield Gardens, and Woodhaven.

Yates Road
Queens

Our first project in Queens was started in 1997 in the Jamaica neighborhood. This also marks the first Habitat NYC and Westchester home built from the ground up, instead of rehabilitation. Two families became homeowners of the two-story, semi-detached building. They moved into their new home in June 1998.

Homesteaders
Manhattan

Completed in 1994, we gut rehabilitated this 21-unit building in the East Village. It was the second-ever Habitat NYC and Westchester project, and the second building to be renovated on East 6th Street – it’s just down the block from our first project, Mascot Flats!

Mascot Flats
Manhattan

Habitat NYC and Westchester’s very first project, in the 1980’s, Mascot Flats was a run-down multi-family apartment building on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Then in 1984, Habitat NYC and Westchester completely renovated the building into safe, decent and affordable housing for 19 hard-working New York City families. It was the first project on which President Jimmy Carter worked! And now, 30 years later, 12 of the 19 original residents still live there – just the beginning of our track record of keeping New Yorkers in their neighborhoods.