Tag: development

Affordable housing lottery opens for 95 apartments in Windsor Terrace

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Apr. 22, 2024 By Anna Bradley-Smith

An affordable housing lottery has launched for 95 apartments in an under-construction contemporary-style building curving along Machate Circle/Park Circle in Windsor Terrace across from Prospect Park and the Parade Grounds.

City releases detailed ‘City of Yes’ zoning changes, including taller buildings, less parking and affordable housing

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Apr. 12, 2024 By Anna Bradley-Smith Taller residences, less parking, and more infill buildings will be allowed in New York City if the mayor’s City of Yes for Housing Opportunity zoning changes go ahead as planned. The draft text for the proposal was released Thursday by the NYC Department of City Planning, the final installment…
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Historic school in Crown Heights to be converted into homeless shelter

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Apr. 9, 2024 By Anna Bradley-Smith

An early racially integrated school in what was once the free Black community of Weeksville but is now Crown Heights will not become affordable housing as planned after all, but instead will be converted into a homeless shelter.

Affordable housing lottery opens for 24 units in Greenpoint’s Franklin Court development

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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.

Two new apartment buildings to replace 19th century church in Williamsburg

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Mar. 21, 2024 By Anna Bradley-Smith A small 19th century church in Williamsburg that was once used as a synagogue will be demolished and replaced by two four-story apartment buildings, if the new owner’s plans go ahead. The quaint house of worship has sat on the corner of Leonard and Stagg streets since 1855, when it was built for a German congregation in what was then a German enclave in the borough. Although the property is now the worse for wear and seemingly forgotten, its early 20th century tax photo shows an elegant Italianate building with neo-Classical details. In February, the church,…
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Crowd packs Gowanus church for rowdy meeting over migrant shelter

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Mar. 7, 2024 By Anna Bradley-Smith

Spaced elbow to elbow in Hoyt Street’s City Life Church Monday night, Gowanus locals aired their concerns at a community meeting on a migrant shelter for 400 men slated to open in a former factory building on 3rd Street.