Apr. 10, 2024 By Anna Bradley-Smith
An affordable housing lottery has opened for 203 newly constructed units across 30 neighboring buildings that are part of East New York’s Nehemiah Spring Creek development, an enormous, long in the works, truly affordable housing development on the site of a former wetland and later landfill.
Mar. 27, 2024 By Anna Bradley-Smith
An affordable housing lottery has launched for 24 apartments in a new development on Greenpoint’s Franklin Street. Dubbed Franklin Court, the modern, 80-unit mixed-use building that replaces an old foundry sits on the corner of Franklin and Quay streets and also has a facade along a section of Calyer Street.
Feb. 20, 2024 By Anna Bradley-Smith
An affordable housing lottery has launched for 65 truly affordable apartments for seniors in an under-construction development at 15 Monteith St. in Bushwick, on a section of the sprawling former Rheingold Brewery site.
Jan. 23, 2024 By Anna Bradley-Smith An affordable housing lottery has launched for 139 apartments in one tower of a new two-towered development on Coney Island’s Surf Avenue. The almost block-long development overlooks the ocean and has the city’s largest geothermal heating and cooling system, according to the project’s architect, as well as an outdoor pool. The tallest of the two towers reaches 26 stories and is located at 1515 Surf Ave. The smaller 16-story building at 2925 West 16th Street holds all the apartments included in the lottery, Department of Buildings permits show. Together, the development, dubbed 1515 Surf, has…
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Jan. 3, 2024 By Anna Bradley-Smith
An affordable housing lottery has launched for 87 apartments in a new development on Fort Greene’s South Portland Avenue. The site formerly belonged to an orphanage and is now among a row of church-owned properties.
Dec. 25, 2023 By Anna Bradley-Smith A new 100% affordable housing development planned for Rutland Road in East Flatbush dubbed Utica Crescent is moving forward, having secured a new-building permit and construction funding. The Utica Crescent complex is being built with state-financed tax-exempt bonds and subsidies as part of the Vital Brooklyn Initiative. The 12-story, two-building…
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Dec. 20, 2023 By Anna Bradley-Smith Locals fighting a rezoning plan to put up two 13-story residential buildings on Windsor Terrace’s Arrow Linen site aren’t against housing, members of the group told a community meeting on Dec. 13. They said they would be happy to see the site return to residential provided the new development…
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Dec. 12, 2023 By Anna Bradley-Smith
An affordable housing lottery has launched for 36 apartments in a long-in-the-works tower on the corner of 4th Avenue and Dean Street in Park Slope. Dubbed Signum, the glassy, 143-unit mixed-use building will be one of 4th Avenue’s taller developments at 17 stories.
Nov. 16, 2023 By Adam Daly
After a decade of planning and waiting, bookworms and locals gathered on Wednesday to cut the ribbon on the new Sunset Park Library and dozens of new affordable apartments on the floors above it.
Nov. 14, 2023 By Anna Bradley-Smith
An affordable housing lottery has opened for 299 apartments in a 100 percent affordable development rising on Coney Island’s Surf Avenue, overlooking the Brooklyn Cyclones’ home ground, Maimonides Park.