Vienna Senior Apartments hailed at Rye ribbon cutting

RYE – The $18 million Vienna Senior Apartments in Rye are officially serving 41 residents. The ribbon was cut Thursday to ceremonially mark the conclusion of construction of the four-story facility that residents age 62 and over now call home.
The apartments are 100 percent affordable and build with a number of efficiency features including lighting and plumbing.
“This project is breaking down barriers,” said state Commissioner of Homes and Community Renewal RuthAnne Visnauskas.
“Breaking down barriers that exist that separate people based on income, based on race, based on religion, based on the color of our skin, all of these things, and it is so important to at HCR that we break down barriers around affordability,” Visnauskas said. “This is an incredibly high cost area in the State of New York so to be able to provide 41 seniors the ability to stay in their community and call Rye home is incredibly important, not only to us, but also to Rye and to allow people to contribute to the economic vitality that makes a place like Rye so great.”
The state contributed $14.3 million toward construction of the new apartments.
Westchester County Executive George Latimer, a resident of Rye, said he has been assisting in moving the project forward for many years while he was a county legislator and later, as state senator.
County Legislator Catherine Parker, a former member of the Rye City Council, said the Vienna Senior Apartments “hit a home run.”