camba office inside hra building in brooklyn

The new Bushwick center will serve the residents of Central and North Brooklyn and will offer SNAP services, cash assistance, a job center, and a large staff training facility. Main service and waiting area at Bushwick HRA. The building is currently marketed as office and retail space in a friendly neighborhood. The building housing the two centers at 500 Dekalb Avenue was sold for $23 million before the year was out. The North Brooklyn SNAP Center closed permanently in September 2018, and the Dekalb Job Center moved to 275 Bergen Street in October of the same year. Reynoso noted the Thorton Street center had some issues, “it’s an old building, that just doesn’t accommodate people in the right way, there’s no dignity walking into those buildings.” “Everyone’s moving in here.” HRA clarified that the Dekalb facility will remain open, and Thornton center will be repurposed, but not yet announced to the public for what. “Thorton Street, Dekalb, Fulton in Downtown Brooklyn are all going to shut down,” Councilmember Antonio Reynoso told Bklyner. The new center will consolidate the services provided by the Williamsburg SNAP Center and Bushwick Job Center, both currently located at 30 Thornton Street, and the Brownsville Center. The plan for the Bushwick HRA has been in the works for four years and the center will open to the public on November 15, 2019.

View of new Bushwick HRA from Evergreen Avenue. Apartments in the complex start at $2,400 for a studio. Across the street is the newly renovated luxury Rheingold Brewery Development, with an estimated market value of almost $57 million. The building was sold to Alpine Evergreen LLC for $38.7 million in March 2018, and HRA will pay a starting annual rent of $6.8 million, which will progress in five years to $7.4 million.

Irina Groushevaia/Bklyner.īUSHWICK - A former industrial space in Bushwick has been revamped into a modern development, now housing a new multi-service Human Resources Administration (HRA) Center at 95 Evergreen Avenue (with an entrance at 2 George Street for clients), off the JMZ stop on Myrtle-Broadway. 4 min read New HRA center in Bushwick.

Camba office inside hra building in brooklyn