Jennings Hall Expansion Wins NYSERDA Buildings of Excellence Award

Workforce Center Receives Federal $

St. Nicks Alliance Summer Mentorships Shine

12th Annual M5K Sets Records

Community Award Winners

Save the Date: October 30, 2024 for St. Nicks Alliance’s Annual Benefit and 49th Anniversary Celebration.

St. Nicks Alliance has achieved another New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) Buildings of Excellence Award; this time for 819 Grand Street. Several other of our developments (in partnership) have received this honor such as: Dekalb Commons (with Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corp), 2nd Phase of Kingsland Commons/Maspeth Park (with Hudson Companies Inc.), and Bushwick Alliance (with RiseBoro Community Partnership).

819 Grand Street will be an affordable senior housing residence in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn and will embody a dynamic model for sustainability and energy efficiency. The 217-unit, 14-story, all-electric building is designed to Passive House standards and will utilize geothermal heating and cooling, a rooftop solar canopy, and resiliency measures. 819 Grand will connect to Jennings Hall (260 Powers Street), a 150-unit affordable senior housing residence. This will create campus-style affordable senior housing for 367 residents with over 11,000 square feet of amenities, 13,500 square feet of open space, and 5,000 square feet of neighborhood retail space. Building is located outside of the 500-year floodplain, will have mechanical ventilation supplied to common areas during power outages, with outlets and refrigerator operational in common areas, and the building will have an area of refuge for residents.  Curtis + Ginsberg Architects designed the building.

NYSERDA’s Buildings of Excellence competition recognizes best in class buildings, with prizes of up to $1 million for demonstration projects and up to $100,000 in funding for early design support.  The contest’s purpose is to show that decarbonized multifamily buildings can be profitable, affordable, beautiful and healthy places to live.

U.S. Representative Nydia Velázquez (right edge of check) presents check to St. Nicks Alliance Workforce Development Center in support of their move to a new location that will expand their services. Among those pictured (l to r) Michael Rochford, exec. dir. St. Nicks Alliance; Sarah Lorya, dir. of operations St. Nicks Alliance Workforce, Beatrice Brown, dep. dir. of employment services at St. Nicks Alliance, U.S. Representative Nydia Velázquez, and Larry Rothchild, sen, managing dir. of St. Nicks Alliance Workforce Development.

Summer campers and Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) interns are growing each year at St. Nicks Alliance. This year we have 2691 enrolled from 3930 who applied. Local employers and community and service organizations have provided 300 worksites for SYEP.

Our campers are experiencing unique learning opportunities.  For one the Pfizer School of Science trip, gave the students training as immunologists.  They explored innate and adaptive immunity in a game scenario.  Students then tried to diagnose patients by matching their symptoms to those of an infectious disease.  After hypothesizing their diagnosis, they analytically verified their hypothesis by running a mock ELISA test. 

Summer campers at Pfizer School of Science explore immunology

On the morning of June 15 over 900 runners and walkers participated in the Dime McCarren 5K, which starts and ends at McCarren Park. That’s over twice as many as last year’s 5K! NYC District 33’s Council Member Lincoln Restler stopped by to give his support. In  addition to the amazing community participation, St. Nicks Alliance staff ran and formed teams in increased numbers.