A new Brownsville building designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects offers 88 units to formerly unhoused individuals and their families and 37 apartments for community residents with low incomes. Six residents shared their stories with dhwendygoodman
Paul Turner in his kitchen. Photo: Wendy Goodman 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.
Edwin’s Place is a short walk from the Saratoga Avenue station , served by the 2, 3, and 4 trains. There is a fitness room, a computer lab, and a large landscaped outdoor area, and the building has a green roof and photovoltaic-solar array for reduced energy use. Beds, tables, chairs, and dressers are provided in the apartments for formerly unhoused residents, and social-services partners provide sheets, towels, and pots and pans.
Turner’s salt-and-pepper shaker, which is in the form of an old-fashioned telephone, sits on his colorful tablecloth. Photo: Wendy Goodman Photo: Wendy Goodman Denzile Cendrecourt has a little indoor garden. “My green thumb? That’s nothing,” he tells me. “I just like keeping things alive.” An artist himself, he covered his window with two works of his that are painted on both sides so “anyone looking in would see a different picture.
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