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Samantha Chaney

It delivers on-site social services, a fitness center, ground floor retail space and a free membership to the New York Botanical Gardens.

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Before 10 tomorrow night. And for anyone thinking of heading to midtown and taking that in, in person, you best be bundled up. Yeah, it is going to be brick. So hopefully you guys can bundle up, try to stay warm and you know, this is what you need to wear, stepping out the door tomorrow morning, you know, temperatures are gonna be in the upper twenties to start 40 degrees by the afternoon. But you're still gonna need the heavy coat, the air muffs hat, the Uggs, the tins, you need it all because of those winds. It's still going to be whipping out of the west near 1525 MPH. So this is where the morning is starting and this is where we're going throughout the day. So as you're standing on the platform, just make sure that you bundle up and try to stay warm again. The gloves will do you some good tomorrow evening is where temperatures begin to, you know, still remain very cold, but the winds won't be too much of an issue. Lighter winds out of the west 5 to 15 MPH. Thursday, the pick of the week lots of sunshine to enjoy so chilly with temperatures in the upper forties, but at least for seeing the forties, that's going to be a welcome sight by our Thursday with lighter winds. Now, looking ahead to our Friday, that's where we start to see the chance for some wet weather pushing through Friday afternoon, lingering into evening, catching a break on our Saturday, but can't rule out stray showers still trying to fine tune the timing of this storm. But a bigger storm system, it is gonna give us more steadier rainfall throughout the day on our Sunday and even leading into Monday. And it is gonna take us into an unsettled weather pattern through early next week, which is gonna be the first full week of December temperatures in the fifties. But then we got some wet weather to deal with.

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Affordable senior housing development opens next New York Botanical Garden

Today, a brand new luxury apartment building officially opens in Bedford Park, offering affordable housing to low income earning seniors news. 12 Samantha Cheney gives us a look at everything it has to offer. Samantha. No. Today city officials and tons of community members gathered here on Webster Avenue to celebrate the opening of this building. Behind me that we're told it's not only new but very much needed here in the Bronx, we're told for more than a decade. The building at 2008 50 Webster Avenue was just a dream to the city but thanks to support from elected officials, the botanical gardens, Douglaston Development and other project partners. Today, the 12 story building became a reality. It's now open and providing 188 units to low income seniors struggling to afford housing in a city where according to live on New York, wait times for senior housing could be seven years to fight those delays. The building offers 100% of those units to seniors earning up to almost $50,000 per year. The area median income of a one person household and almost $57,000 for a household of two. It also delivers on site, social services, a fitness center, ground floor retail space and the best part for some the botanical gardens as its backyard. I've never been there. This will be my first time, you know, to have something to where that I can be able to go somewhere else, be able to do things and see something different. You know, it's a big blessing and the beautiful views of the garden will not only be accessible to residents here as a site from across the street. Now, they're offered a membership to the botanical gardens and everything that it has to offer in Bedford Park. I'm Samantha Chaney, who's 12.

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