Take A Tour Of A 3 Bedroom Apartment At Roosevelt Island's Manhattan Park - A Mere $5150 Per Month - Construction Of Roosevelt Island 340 Affordable Rental Units Starting This Spring

More info at Manhattan Park's web site.

$5150 per month for a Roosevelt Island 3 bedroom apartment would not be considered affordable housing for most New Yorkers.

Mayor Bill de Blasio says NYC has a plan for affordable housing.

This city is your home. We want to make it as easy as possible for you to afford to keep it your home. https://t.co/whffeFNg1D pic.twitter.com/b6PJxVUBEq

— Bill de Blasio (@NYCMayor) January 20, 2018

163,905 New Yorkers are living in affordable apartments we’ve built or protected since we came to office, but the work is just getting started.

Find out more about our city's affordable housing initiative at https://t.co/whffeG4Rqd pic.twitter.com/MlkkTiXzMT

— Bill de Blasio (@NYCMayor) January 19, 2018

Roosevelt Island's Southtown Building 8 is scheduled to start construction this spring and will contain 340 middle and low income affordable rental housing units.