CURBED: Meet the Residents of Edwin’s Place in Brownsville, Brooklyn Robert A.M. Stern buildings aren’t just for billionaires anymore.
Edwin’s Place, a new affordable- and supportive-housing building in Brownsville, Brooklyn, is designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects, a firm better known for its stratospherically priced limestone residential towers like 220 Central Park South. Edwin’s Place offers 88 units to formerly unhoused individuals and their families and 37 apartments for community residents with low incomes. They range from studios to three-bedrooms and were all sorely needed. “We had 47,000 applications to sort through” for the 37 low-income apartments, says Brenda Rosen, president and CEO of the social-services nonprofit Breaking Ground, the city’s largest supportive-housing developer. For this project, it teamed up with African American Planning Commission, Inc., which provides on-site social services for all tenants and gave the building its name (Edwin was a colleague and friend at AAPCI who died in 1994, at the height of the AIDS crisis).