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Breaking Ground has embarked on this critical work and I look forward to welcoming our future neighbors to the community." Now more than ever, we need to ensure that individuals and families have a place to live and can leave shelter for secure, stable, and affordable housing. The problems our City has long faced have been even more pronounced as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic. “This project will usher in 490 apartments of affordable and supportive housing, including housing for the formerly homeless. "The closing of financing for the Breaking Ground development at 90 Sands Street in DUMBO is welcome news,” said Council Member Stephen Levin. “With the construction closing for 90 Sands, we are on our way to bringing 491 much-needed affordable units to DUMBO, one of the most expensive neighborhoods in the city.” At 90 Sands, we return to our roots and further our mission to enable people to forever escape the trauma of homelessness,” said Brenda Rosen, President and CEO of Breaking Ground. We started out in Manhattan in the 1990s rehabbing old hotels that had fallen into disrepair, and later moved on to designing and developing our own ground-up supportive housing projects throughout New York. “For 30 years, Breaking Ground has been redefining the meaning of ‘home’ for vulnerable New Yorkers. It was a revolutionary concept at the time that is still critical today. The nonprofit launched 30 years ago, in 1990, focused on transforming old hotels in Manhattan into supportive housing, giving the city’s homeless a way to get off the streets and have a place to call home. 90 Sands is an important marker in Breaking Ground’s history. With the closing of the building’s construction loan, the renovation will break ground this month.

Nonprofit celebrates 30 years of building and restoring lives in New York CityīROOKLYN, NEW YORK – Breaking Ground, New York’s largest supportive housing developer, today announced the nonprofit is moving ahead with the repositioning of 90 Sands Street to turn the former Jehovah’s Witnesses hotel into 491 units of affordable and supportive housing. Former Jehovah’s Witnesses Hotel To Become Affordable & Supportive Housing in DUMBOĩ0 Sands will bring much-needed 491 new affordable and supportive housing units to Brooklyn