The Department of Housing and Preservation Development is closer to figuring out what to do with a city-owned site in East Harlem. The HPD last week submitted a proposal to rezone the block around 22 East 119th Street, the Commercial Observer reported. The changes will allow for a two-building housing project with 698 units and rezone the full block, bordered by East 118th and East 119th streets between Madison and Fifth avenues.  Today, the site contains a six-story, 174-unit building run by Volunteers of America-Greater New York, which runs the facility as supportive housing for single adults who are formerly […]

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