City sells Queens site for new health care facility.New York City Economic Development Corporation Overview New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) is a non-profit local development corporation that promotes economic growth across New York City's five boroughs. sold 33,000 square feet of City-owned property in Far Rockaway, Queens Far Rockaway is one of the four neighborhoods on the Rockaway Peninsula in the New York City borough of Queens in the United States. It describes the easternmost section of the Rockaways, usually the area east of Beach 77th Street, comprising the neighborhoods of Bayswater, , to the Joseph P. Addabbo Family Health Center, where a new three-story health care facility will be built. The health care center plans to construct a new three-story, 22,000-square-foot, facility to replace its main facility at 67-10 Rockaway Beach Boulevard Rockaway Beach Boulevard, opened in 1886, was the first major east-west thoroughfare on the Rockaway Peninsula in the Borough of Queens in New York City. Much of its route parallels the Rockaway Freeway and the IND Rockaway Line above the Freeway. . The purchase price of the property was $110,000 and total cost of the project is estimated at $10.5 million. The City Counsel and Queens Borough President are contributing a total of $3.65 million to the project. In addition, New York City Housing Authority The New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) provides housing for low and moderate income residents throughout the five boroughs of New York City. NYCHA also administers a citywide Section 8 Leased Housing Program in rental apartments. is providing another $1.5 million as part of its HOPE VI project in the Rockaways. "Organizations like the Addabbo Family Health Center are the heart and soul of New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of City's diversified neighborhoods," said EDC EDC See: Export Development Corp. President Andrew M. Alper. "Since 1965 Addabbo has been providing comprehensive health services to medically underserved residents of the Rockaway Peninsula. By helping this project become a reality, we will insure that the health center continues to provide its vital services to the community." Over the years, Addabbo Family Health Center has grown substantially and expanded its services. In addition to its main location on Rockaway Beach Boulevard, Addabbo also operates two other facilities--a satellite primary care center on Central Avenue in Far Rockaway, and a mental-health day treatment program for children on the campus of Peninsula Hospital Center, its clinical affiliate. In 2003 the health center registered 57,000 patient visits. Borough President Marshall said, "I am proud of the role my office has played in the sale of 62-10 Beach Channel Drive Beach Channel Drive is the main thoroughfare in the Rockaway Peninsula in the New York City borough of Queens. It extends from the Nassau County border at Inwood westward to the Marine Parkway Bridge at the end of Jacob Riis Park. to the Joseph P. Addabbo Family Health Center. Working with the City's Economic Development Corporation we will take an unused City property and transform it into a state-of-the-art health care facility that will benefit the entire population of the Rockaway Peninsula. The investment of $2.3 million from my capital budget will go toward the construction of this project that will provide quality health care and new jobs." |
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