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Friendset Housing for the Elderly
Owner: Settlement Housing Fund and Glick Consruction
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Construction Cost: 11 Million
This 20 story apartment house with 259 units of housing with an attached one story geriatric care facility for the elderly and handicapped. It was completed, in 1979. The building is a reinforced concrete structure with flat plate design for the floor slabs. It was built on compressible soil and has foundations of 10 foot diametertapered tip short concrete piles. The building is faced with brick and has a single ply ballasted roofing system. The apartment units in the north and southeast have handicapped bathrooms with walk-in showers, handicapped sinks and water closets and grab bars. The visitorsŐ toilets off the main entrance and the lounge area at the first floor also have handicapped accessible fixtures. The apartment building exterior wall is of brick and block cavity wall construction with aluminum double hung windows with insulated glass. The heating system is that of heating hot water that is routed to convectors in the apartments living and dining rooms. The apartment building exterior wall is of brick and block cavity wall construction with aluminum double hung windows with insulated glass. The elevators are overhead traction type. The elevator machine room is at the main roof level. The elevators have been designed for the handicapped and have braille numbers and letters. Because the building has been built close to the ocean, the first floor of the apartment house is approximately 6 feet above grade to compensate for flooding. The elevator entrances at the first floor face the main building entrance and the security desk.
The building has a closed circuit television security system. Security personnel are the front entrance to the building where all visitors are screened. An Intercom voice and buzzer type operates between the security station at the main entrance and each apartment. Further, each apartment has emergency pull stations in the bedrooms and bathrooms (of each apartment) that signal the security personnel at the main entrance if there is a problem. Additionally, there are emergency lights that go on outside individual apartments that signal the need for emergency medical care. This means that both the security personnel at the front of main entrance of the apartment house and individuals outside their apartment(s) on the same floors where the hall light was going on /or went on would know that medical help should be called.
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Friendset Housing for the Elderly
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Construction Cost: 11 Million
This 20 story apartment house with 259 units of housing with an attached one story geriatric care facility for the elderly and handicapped. It was completed, in 1979. The building is a reinforced concrete structure with flat plate design for the floor slabs. It was built on compressible soil and has foundations of 10 foot diametertapered tip short concrete piles. The building is faced with brick and has a single ply ballasted roofing system. The apartment units in the north and southeast have handicapped bathrooms with walk-in showers, handicapped sinks and water closets and grab bars. The visitorsŐ toilets off the main entrance and the lounge area at the first floor also have handicapped accessible fixtures. The apartment building exterior wall is of brick and block cavity wall construction with aluminum double hung windows with insulated glass. The heating system is that of heating hot water that is routed to convectors in the apartments living and dining rooms. The apartment building exterior wall is of brick and block cavity wall construction with aluminum double hung windows with insulated glass. The elevators are overhead traction type. The elevator machine room is at the main roof level. The elevators have been designed for the handicapped and have braille numbers and letters. Because the building has been built close to the ocean, the first floor of the apartment house is approximately 6 feet above grade to compensate for flooding. The elevator entrances at the first floor face the main building entrance and the security desk.
The building has a closed circuit television security system. Security personnel are the front entrance to the building where all visitors are screened. An Intercom voice and buzzer type operates between the security station at the main entrance and each apartment. Further, each apartment has emergency pull stations in the bedrooms and bathrooms (of each apartment) that signal the security personnel at the main entrance if there is a problem. Additionally, there are emergency lights that go on outside individual apartments that signal the need for emergency medical care. This means that both the security personnel at the front of main entrance of the apartment house and individuals outside their apartment(s) on the same floors where the hall light was going on /or went on would know that medical help should be called.
