Tale of 2 projects

DeB eyes flip-flop on affordable units

The de Blasio administration is trying to pull a switcheroo on public-housing tenants — floating a proposal to build a high-rise tower with market-rate apartments on a Hell’s Kitchen lot that was supposed to be reserved for affordable housing, elected officials said.

A deal hatched during the Bloomberg administration set aside a NYCHA parking lot at Harborview Terrace on West 55th Street for 226 affordable units in a 16-story building.

But the de Blasio administration told elected officials Monday it’s currently looking at four alternatives, including a mixed-unit tower with 753 units — 527 at market rate and 226 affordable.

The other three proposals would each lower the number of affordable units to below 200, sources said.

“After working together with the community for years to strike a deal for a 100 percent affordable development at Harborview, it was like a gut punch to learn that the city was considering a new deal with far fewer affordablehousing units or a megatower of market-rate units at the site instead,” said state Assembly member Linda Rosenthal, who attended the meeting. “We are all infuriated that the administration would come up with such radically altered plans.”

Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer said she was a councilwoman when the Bloomberg administration guaranteed the affordable-housing units as a way to gain approval for the nearby Hudson Yards development project in 2005.

“That was what I was promised — and so was the community,” she said. “This is all to compensate for Hudson Yards. Period.”

The new proposals resemble other housing deals the de Blasio administration has been trying to strike on NYCHA land to generate money for the cash-strapped authority.

A recent analysis found that NYCHA’s capital-project needs top $32 billion.

NYCHA officials would not confirm details of the proposals. “The administration hasn’t made a decision on which approach to adopt,” NYCHA spokeswoman Robin Levine said.