Our Commitment Goes Beyond Housing

Building Stronger Communities from the Ground Up

Norman Towers

  Felicia Waters (L+M Social Services Coordinator) and Ms. Cathy (Norman Towers floor captain) Residents at Norman Towers in East Orange, New Jersey, are exemplifying what it means to be a ‘good neighbor’ through their ‘I’m OK’ community program. Led by L+M’s social services team in collaboration with resident volunteers, ‘I’m OK’ is a peer-to-peer […]

Wellness Kits for the WANA Community

Our team joined together for a day of service in support of the WANA Community Resource Center shelter in Harlem this week in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy. WANA (We Are Not Afraid) is a Harlem-based non-profit organization led by women of color and serves people in need through its shelter and […]

Celebrating 2022

As 2022 comes to a close, L+M is looking back at our accomplishments over the past year, including completing construction on projects that delivered thousands of apartments and kicking off projects across the country. In between it all, we collaborated with community partners to launch programming and resources for our resident communities and celebrated team […]

Working Together This Thanksgiving

L+M partnered with nonprofits, Residents Associations, and community groups to help deliver over 1,500 Thanksgiving meals to our residents and families in New York and New Jersey. Our team volunteered with Feeding NYC yesterday morning and packed over 500 Thanksgiving dinners, including a turkey and all the fixings. The hand-packed boxes will be delivered to […]

Bronx Young Adults Explore Careers in Real Estate

  OSHA 40 graduates The Bronx Point Career Exploratory Program engaged 20 young people from the local area and highlighted different career paths in the real estate field. Over a week, the cohort visited the Bronx Point site each day, watched construction progress in real-time and learned more about the development process. The program featured […]

L+M’s Sandwich Making Challenge Delivers

Our team raced to make over 1,500 peanut and jelly sandwiches last week as part of a challenge developed in partnership with Grassroots Grocery, an L+M grantee. More than 100 members of our team volunteered for the challenge in recognition of Hunger Action Month. The sandwiches were delivered to community fridges and organizations in the […]

Grantee Spotlight: RiseBoro

RiseBoro, an L+M 2022 grantee, has served New Yorkers for over 45 years, including some of our senior residents at Saratoga Village Houses in Brooklyn. Since 2017, Saratoga Seniors have participated in Saratoga Grows, Saratoga Cooks, RiseBoro’s program that focuses on the food life cycle from seed to spoon, including plant cultivation workshops and nutrition […]

Our Summer Internship Experience

Interns visiting the National Urban League site in Harlem  L+M’s 2022 Internship cohort included a diverse group of 23 students that gained hands-on experience across development, construction, and corporate function teams over summer. Throughout the 10-week program, we learned about the real estate industry and witnessed firsthand how a company can create real change and […]

Our Mott Haven Fridge Volunteer Team Delivers!

  Our team recently lent a helping hand to the Mott Haven Fridge, a L+M 2022 grantee that supports underserved communities throughout upper Manhattan and the Bronx, by bringing fresh produce and food essentials to communities in need. The L+M volunteer team, including staff and their family and friends, worked together to unload, sort, and […]

Almost 2,400 Children Have Participated in L+M’s After School Programs

In 2011, L+M began supporting an after-school program at one of our properties in the Claremont neighborhood of the South Bronx. The program was created in response to residents’ need for both academic enrichment and childcare to accommodate their working hours and began with fewer than 25 students. Today, L+M-sponsored afterschool programming has grown to […]

A Team Dedicated to Supporting Our Retailers

L+M recently formalized its company values, and we asked our staff to share some of their stories that they feel exemplify our company values. This submission, the last in a series of six, came from someone on our Retail team, and we think it’s an excellent example of one of our key values: Dedication. The […]

Respect – What Does it Mean to You?

Triborough Portfolio

L+M recently formalized its company values, and we asked our staff to share some of their stories that they feel exemplify our company values.  This submission, fifth in a series of six, came from Nick Papakostopoulos on our Property Management team, and we think it’s an excellent example of one of our key values: Respect. […]

Designing for Life in New Jersey

Norman Towers

L+M recently formalized its company values, and we asked our staff to share some of their stories that they feel exemplify our company values. This submission, fourth in a series of six, came from Andrea Pilat on our Builders PreCon team, and we think it’s an excellent example of one of our key values: Quality. […]

Housing, Health and Wellness

L+M recently formalized its company values, and we asked our staff to share some of their stories that they feel exemplify our company values.  This submission, third in a series of six, came from Elaine Braithwaite on our Development team, and we think it’s an excellent example of one of our key values: Innovation.    […]

It All Starts with Integrity

L+M recently formalized our company values, and we asked our staff to share some of their stories that they feel exemplify our company values. This submission came from Mitch Britton on our Security team, and we think it’s a stellar example of our key values: Integrity. “When I was first hired in 2014 I was […]

A New Home

L+M recently formalized our company values, and we asked our staff to share some of their stories that they feel exemplify our company values. This submission came from Fatima Amate-Perez on our Leasing and Marketing team, and we think it’s a stellar example of our key values: Relationships. “We often request referrals from our connections […]

Supporting Our Residents Beyond Housing

Over the past year, L+M has partnered with Esusu to introduce new programs to our residents that assist in improving financial health and support housing security. Esusu, a rental data reporting service that helps residents build their credit scores by reporting rent payments to the credit bureaus, offers a way for residents without a credit […]

Welcome 2021 Interns!

L+M Development Partners’ Summer Internship program officially started this week with a cohort of 19 college students looking to gain valuable experience in the affordable, mixed-income, and market-rate housing sectors. Our 2021 Interns come from schools in New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Texas and were attracted to L+M because of our double bottom line philosophy […]

Beach Green Dunes II is a Model for Sustainable Multifamily Housing Developments

Beach Green Dunes II

As part of our annual Earth Day celebrations, we’re highlighting Beach Green Dunes II, one of the most energy-efficient and resilient projects in our portfolio.

Introducing Our 2021 Grantees

One of our newest grantees, GrassROOTS Community Foundation develops wellness programs for women and girls. (Photo courtesy of GrassROOTS Community Foundation) We are thrilled to introduce our 2021 grantees, a select group of 48 nonprofit organizations that work in communities across New York, New Jersey, and California. The 2021 cohort will collectively offer 14 newly […]

Watch the L+M and PENCIL Partnership at Work!

As part of its 50,000 Futures campaign, PENCIL recently shared a short video featuring some of the L+M team members who have been critical in developing the ongoing partnership between L+M and Murray Hill Academy, a NYC public high school. Gingi Pica, L+M’s Director of Community Investment, and Josue Sanchez, Senior Director of Development at […]

2020: Year in Review

2020 has been an incredibly challenging and difficult year, but it has also solidified our commitment to our communities. We are proud to share some of our favorite stories from 2020, including: Beach Green Dunes II officially opens in Queens L+M Delivers nearly 25,000 meals to NY and NJ residents in April Essex Crossing construction […]

Project EATS Stays Connected to Brownsville Residents

Marcus Garvey Apartments

Project EATS, an L+M grantee, stayed connected to their community when farm visits were restricted by producing a weekly newsletter throughout the height of the pandemic. The weekly newsletter, which is ongoing and available in print and online, recently published its 31st edition. It includes updates about what produce is available from the farm, recipe […]

PENCIL Program Turns Classroom Learnings into Hands-On Experience

This year, L+M’s volunteer partnership with PENCIL extended beyond the classroom and into our office (remotely, of course) for an internship opportunity. Elian Gomez, who was one of the L+M mentees from the 2019-2020 Murray Hill Academy/PENCIL cohort, joined our Legal and Insurance team as an intern to take some of what he’d learned during […]

COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT: STEM from Dance

One of L+M’s newest grantees is STEM from Dance, an organization that uses dance to empower, educate, and encourage young women as the next generation of engineers, scientists, and techies. And while dance and STEM-related skills might seem at the opposite ends of the spectrum, STEM from Dance’s founder Yamilee Toussaint Beach studied both disciplines […]

L+M Supports Local Tailors to Create Masks for Residents

L+M funded the 100 Tailors of Harlem to sew masks for our Brooklyn and Bronx residents during the New York City COVID shutdown. This program gave residents access to free and reusable masks and ensured that small businesses from the 100 Tailors were able to remain operational. The 100 Tailors is a small business incubator […]

Opportunities for Growth in the Bronx

L+M Grantee GrowNYC officially opened the first youth-run farmstand in the Eastchester neighborhood of the Bronx last week. The farmstand will bring fresh and affordable produce to residents Baychester, their neighbors, and the wider community, as well as empower young people to develop their entrepreneurial skills by teaching them how to operate a small business […]

Announcing our 2020 Grantees

One our newest grantees, MEND’s school-bus-turned-mobile-food-pantry is fondly known as the ‘green bean’ (Photo courtesy of MEND) L+M is proud to support our 2020 Grantees  who serve communities across New York, New Jersey, Washington D.C., and California. The diverse group of 58 nonprofits provide rich programming in communities L+M is active in. Collectively these grantees focus on three key […]

Black Lives Matter

Racism, bigotry and every other form of discrimination have no place in our hearts, our company or our communities. We are listening, engaging with the hard questions and have started conversations about the ways we can work together to make meaningful changes in our company, our city and the world. This is a time for change. We stand with the Black community.

L+M Delivers Meals to Frontline Workers

St. Barnabas

L+M is supporting a program that is delivering 500 meals a day to frontline workers at St. Barnabas Hospital in the Belmont neighborhood of the Bronx. In addition to delivering meals, food trucks are providing tapas for staff at lunchtime once a week, and 800 meals will also be available for staff to take home at the end of their shift.

L+M Delivers Nearly 25,000 Meals to NY and NJ Residents

C+C property management staff distributing food to residents at Livingston in Newark, New Jersey L+M is supporting our residents during the COVID-19 global pandemic by connecting our most vulnerable populations with food and meal deliveries. Our Community Affairs and Property Management teams are working with community partners, non-profit organizations, and local officials, and so far, […]

Upcycling Brings Light to Historic Hahne’s

Hahne's

Artist’s impression of the water bottle chandeliers inside Hahne’s grand atrium Express Newark is partnering with Hahne’s to commission a water bottle chandelier project by Form Design Studio Artist in Residence, Willie Cole. Cole will be creating two chandeliers made with 5,000 bottles each at Express Newark, Rutgers University-Newark’s community arts space located in the historic New Jersey Hahne & Co. building. […]

L+M’s Grantees Serve More Than 7,000 Residents and Community Members in 2019

L+M grantee NYC Urban Debate League prepares students for the 2019 Bronx Fall Debate Part of L+M’s mission is to strengthen the neighborhoods where we work, and last year L+M supported 47 incredible organizations committed to that same mission. This group of diverse and dedicated non-profits organizations formed the L+M 2019 Grantee Cohort and worked […]

Training Lays the Foundation for a Career in Construction

Essex Crossing, The Carolina

(L – R) Some of The Carolina team, including Eric Calabrese, Mark Trashaj, Jeannine Britt and Josh Elkin Jeannine Britt grew up on the Lower East Side and it’s also where she began to grow her career in construction. Her career path has been a focused effort that showcases Jeannine’s persistence and skills, and highlights […]

Our Community Comes Together for the Holidays

Arverne View, Georgia King Village, Impac Houses, Marcus Garvey Apartments, Zion Towers

Residents at Marcus Garvey Apartments pick up turkeys for their Thanksgiving dinners This Thanksgiving, we partnered with non-profits, tenants’ associations and community groups to deliver more than 600 Thanksgiving meals to our residents all over the tri-state area! In Brooklyn, our property management team at Marcus Garvey Apartments partnered with the Tenants Association to give […]

Walker House and Hahne’s Transform for the Newark Arts Festival

Hahne's, Walker House

9,000 SF in Hahne’s became at temporary gallery for Newark Arts Festival.  Hahne’s and Walker House in downtown Newark underwent a temporary transformation last month when each building became home to pop-up galleries and exhibitions as part of the annual Newark Arts Festival. This is the second time L+M has worked with the award-winning festival. […]

PENCIL Partnership Points Students to Success

L+M is proudly partnering with PENCIL, a New York nonprofit with a mission to connect NYC public school students to success.

Essex Crossing Park Dedicated to Lower East Side Families

Essex Crossing

About 50 community representatives, elected officials, and residents gathered at Essex Crossing Park last week to formally dedicate to the park to families displaced from the Seward Park Urban Renewal Area between 1965-1973.

Arverne Residents Celebrate Their Community Leaders

Arverne View

The Arverne View Tenants Association, which represents more than 3,000 residents at their apartment complex in Far Rockaways, recently recognized its neighbors and peers who exemplify the Tenant Association’s motto: ‘tenants together’.

COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT: SUS’ Horticulture Program

294 East 162nd Street

One of L+M’s 2019 Grantees, Services for the Underserved (SUS), is providing training in horticulture to more than 25 participants at East 162nd Street Court in the Bronx. SUS’ specialized Urban Farms group developed this training program to teach core skills needed for positions in the horticulture industry as well as personal passion projects like […]

L+M’s 2019 Summer Interns

L+M Development Partners’ Summer Internship program seeks out the next generation of real estate, development, and construction professionals who want to gain experience in affordable, mixed-income, and market-rate housing. The annual program supports students’ professional development and attracts students in high school and college as well as graduates who are engaged, tenacious and intelligent. This […]

Partnering with M/WBEs to Deliver Quality Outcomes

Georgia King Village

L+M recognizes that socially responsible, community-based development extends beyond housing. In an effort to broaden our support in the communities where we work and create ongoing career opportunities, we actively hire local workers and partner with minority- and women-owned business enterprises (M/WBEs) on our projects. On Georgia King Village, one of our revitalization projects in […]

COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT: Hot Bread Kitchen Graduates are on the Rise

Hot Bread Kitchen – one of L+M’s 2019 Grantees – celebrated its biggest graduation cohort yet with 35 women completing the training program in June. The nonprofit social enterprise creates economic opportunity by training women for careers in food and connecting them to meaningful employment. Lydia Rivera, one of Hot Bread Kitchen’s Summer 2019 Graduates, […]

Senior Companions: Making A Difference by Giving Independence

C+C Apartment Management, in partnership with Henry Street Settlement, offers the Senior Companion Program to residents at Saratoga Square located in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. The program pairs companions (who are at least 55 years of age) with older adults that have difficulty performing daily tasks. All qualified volunteers complete a training course and serve 15 to 40 […]

City Seekers Visit Essex Crossing

Delancey Street Associates (DSA) partnered with three community schools in School District 1 to craft the City Seekers After School program. The program helped students explore the Lower East Side neighborhood, its history, and its ongoing evolution. As part of the program, DSA welcomed 40 elementary students to Essex Crossing over the past three months […]

Energy Efficiency and Resiliency in The Rockaways

Arverne View

Our team is looking for ways to conserve energy from the early planning stages to retrofitting existing buildings. At Arverne View, that meant a combination of energy efficiency measures and resiliency planning.

Senior Center Finds a Permanent Home in Harlem

The L+M Team joined the staff and parishioners of Canaan Baptist Church of Christ to celebrate the opening of a new permanent home for the church’s Senior Service Center. The opening comes after the center was forced to close in September 2016 when the lease ended at its former location, leaving it to find temporary […]

COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT: BCJC Construction Program

Marcus Garvey Apartments

Congratulations to the inaugural class of Brownsville Community Justice Center’s Construction Training Program. The program, which took place over 16 weeks, helped 10 Marcus Garvey residents learn new skills in carpentry and framing, as well as some electrical work. Through the BCJC program, five participants have completed their OSHA 30 training and certification, with the […]

Women of L+M

We want to take the opportunity to celebrate the women of L+M and C+C who bring their skill and expertise to our projects. In fact, some of our amazing women were acknowledged by the Women’s Builders Council and the Council of Urban Real Estate for their outstanding work. We believe that socially responsible, community-based development […]

Introducing our 2019 Grantees

L+M Development Partners is proud to announce we are supporting 47 incredible organizations who form the 2019 Grantee Cohort. This group of diverse and dedicated non-profits work tirelessly to strengthen and improve their communities in the areas of Education and Youth Development, Workforce Development and Healthy Living. Here are a few from each of the […]

Hard Work & Talent Create an Upward Career Trajectory

Kingsbridge Heights Apartments

L+M Development Partners is proud to introduce James Shell, the new superintendent for Kingsbridge Heights Apartments in the Bronx. James initially started working as a construction laborer on one of L+M’s Triborough Properties in Bronxchester about four years ago. He secured that position through the NYCHA Resident Economic Empowerment & Sustainability program, which focuses on […]

COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT: Newark Community Street Team

As part of an ongoing series highlighting some of our Grantees, we’re excited to tell you about the Newark Community Street Team. The Street Team launched in 2016 and focuses on reducing crime in their community through outreach and intervention.  They are one of the many L+M Grantees who are making a positive impact in […]

COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT: Project EATS & Urban Farming in Brooklyn

Marcus Garvey Apartments

After the acquisition of Marcus Garvey Apartments (MGA) in 2014, L+M began working in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Brownsville for the first time. L+M sought to revitalize the 625-unit complex with apartment renovations, the installation of alternative energy solutions and various other improvements on the grounds including the construction of a children’s playground. To further […]

COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT: Bronx Children Showcase STEAM Projects

Triborough Portfolio

With the approaching end of school year, many afterschool programs are also coming to an end. In recognition of student’s hard work, one of L+M’s grantees BronxWorks, recently celebrated with a showcase for students to present their work on STEAM-related topics of their choice.

Local Hiring in Construction: A Bronx Story

Story Avenue East & West

A Soundview native is helping her fellow community members get jobs at L+M’s Story Avenue project.

COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT: L+M and The Posse Foundation

Jayda Shanks, center, with team at Essex Crossing L+M has worked as an employment partner with the Posse Foundation, a college access and career-pathing organization, for many years, and has hired nineteen Posse Scholars as interns and employees. In September 2016, Jayda Shanks, a Posse alum, celebrated her fifth anniversary at L+M. As part L+M’s […]

Social Enterprise Café Opens

Essex Crossing, Frances Goldin Senior Apartments

In 2018, L+M and the Lower East Side community gathered to celebrate the opening of the first commercial business within Essex Crossing. The Grand Lo Café is a 2,500 square feet café serving coffee, pastry and lunch, all prepared on site. But the Grand Lo isn’t your typical café. Operated by Grand St. Settlement, the […]

First Building at Essex Crossing Opens

Essex Crossing, Frances Goldin Senior Apartments

Earlier this year, the first building at Essex Crossing opened to the Lower East Side community. The building is also the new home for Grand St. Settlement, an NYU Langone Medical Center and Grand Lo, a social enterprise café. Named for local activist, Frances Goldin, the building is 100% affordable for seniors and those previously […]

A Second Chance

Sean, a Property Management employee talks with colleague Jose about his experience on StoryCorps. Hear his story about being reunited with his family, working first with Construction, and what it means when companies like L+M are willing to provide employment opportunities to those formerly incarcerated.

Georgia King Village’s Children’s Library Opens to Residents

Georgia King Village

On June 22, 2017, L+M Development celebrated the opening of the children’s library at Georgia King Village in Newark, New Jersey.

ReFresh, a Fresh Food Hub, Opens in New Orleans

ReFresh

L+M partnered with Broad Community Connections to convert a previously vacant 61,000 square-foot space into a Whole Foods, teaching kitchen and more.

Foundations: Afterschool Programs

Since 2012, L+M has supported afterschool programs for residents of L+M properties and other neighborhood residents in Harlem, the Bronx, Brooklyn, and the New Orleans-based Fauborg-Lafitte community.

Career-Pathing with Building Skills NY

L+M collaborated with other New York affordable housing developers to create Building Skills NY (BSNY) to address the need for greater access to economic opportunities in the communities where affordable housing is being built.