The city wants to tear down the Bloomingdale Library and a Department of Health building on West 100th Street on the Upper West Side — rebuilding the site into a new library, a clinic and roughly 850 apartments above them.

“City-owned property should not be handed over to developers to decide on affordable housing. All of these apartments should be 100% affordable,” resident Patricia Loftman said.

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Officials say market-rate rents would help fund affordable apartments, the new library and a rebuilt health department facility

At Wednesday night's Community Board 7 meeting, neighbors questioned the city's plan to mix market-rate and affordable units on public land

The city calls it part of a broader plan to build 10,000 homes on public property “living libraries” wit

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