(DNAINFO)  Carolina Pichardo | January 6, 2017 — The project, which is set to begin in 2019, will also include a “state of the art” new library.

The city plans to demolish the Inwood library and sell the property to a developer to build a new tower with 100 percent affordable housing and a “state-of-the-art” new library, officials announced this week.

Construction on the Inwood Library site, at 4790 Broadway, is slated to begin as early as 2019, officials from the city’s Housing Preservation and Development told Community Board 12’s land use committee meeting Wednesday night.

Officials announced that the city is planning to sell the property to a developer who would build an apartment building, the height of which is not yet determined, in collaboration with the New York Public Library, HPD and anti-poverty nonprofit The Robin Hood Foundation.

Source: Inwood Library to Be Sold to Developer for Affordable Housing, City Says – Inwood – DNAinfo New York