Oct. 24, 2024 By Anna Bradley-Smith A truly affordable housing lottery has opened for 36 apartments in a new 100% affordable development in Crown Heights, with units starting at $454 a month. Dubbed Weeksville Place, the new eight-story, 45-unit building has risen on a formerly vacant and overgrown lot. The lottery for the new…
Oct. 17, 2024 By Anna Bradley-Smith An affordable housing lottery has opened for 49 apartments in a towering new mixed-income development on Boerum Street in Williamsburg. The 19-story, 162-unit building at 159 Boerum Street, which rises far above any other structure on the block, has gone up on the site of the former parking…
Oct. 16, 2024 By Adam Daly Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Wednesday that an estimated 71,000 new apartments will be added to New York City’s housing stock after she extended the deadline for the 421-a affordable housing tax break. The extension allows for an additional six years to complete projects already in the pipeline, including…
Sep. 10, 2024 By Anna Bradley-Smith An affordable housing lottery has opened specifically for seniors aged 62 and above in a new building in East Flatbush, with rents listed as free but with residents required to have Section 8 and pay 30% of their income on rent. The lottery for Bethany Senior Terraces at…
Sep. 4, 2024 By Anna Bradley-Smith An affordable housing lottery has opened for a modern-looking 13-story, 171-unit development on Flatbush Avenue. Running from Aurelia Court to Triangle Junction mall, the complex at 1634 Flatbush Avenue replaces a gas station formerly on the site. Of the 45 studio, one-, and two-bedroom apartments in the lottery…
Sep. 3, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen A nearly 30-year-old family supportive housing development in Clinton Hill will be completely rebuilt and expanded after a Council Member Crystal Hudson allocated $1.5 million to the project. The Emerson Davis Family Residence opened in 1996 to support adults with mental health illnesses who had lost custody of…
Aug. 28, 2024 By Anna Bradley-Smith One of the first luxury towers to benefit from the Gowanus rezoning is nearly complete and has launched an affordable housing lottery as well as market-rate rentals. The affordable housing lottery opened Wednesday for the towering complex at 420 Carroll Street, right on the banks of the canal,…
Aug. 27, 2024 By Gabriele Holtermann New York Foundling and residents of Vital Brookdale in Brownsville celebrated the unveiling of a new mural titled “Colors of My City” by muralist Layqa Nuna Yawar on Aug. 23. The 1,000-square-foot painting on Brookdale Hospital, across from Vital Brookdale, celebrates Brownsville and its residents, featuring portraits of…
Aug. 19, 2024 By Anna Bradley-Smith An affordable housing lottery has started for 165 truly affordable apartments in an under-construction Brownsville building, with one-bedroom units starting at $484 per month. The lottery is for the third and final building in the 100% affordable Ebenezer Plaza complex, developed in a partnership between Ebenezer Urban Ministries…
Aug. 16, 2024 By Anna Bradley-Smith An affordable housing lottery has opened for 86 truly affordable apartments in a new Brownsville development, with one-bedroom units starting at $617 per month. The two-building, seven-story development, which has taken the place of two low-lying brick warehouses, also includes almost 40,000 square feet of light manufacturing space…