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New York City officials have broken ground on Sugar Hill, a new affordable housing development in West Harlem, New York.

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Sugar Hill will be a 13-storey building with 124 affordable apartments. Of those, 25 will be reserved for formerly homeless families. The development will include a preschool for up to 120 children. It also will have a space for the privately funded Sugar Hill Children's Museum of Art and Storytelling.

The Sugar Hill development aims at bringing high-quality affordable housing as well as construction jo6bs and other benefits to the community. It is being funded with $80 million in government, private equity and philanthropic funds.

Construction is expected to be completed in the spring of 2014.