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.
Nov. 14, 2023 By Bella Sanchez
Innovative artists have unveiled a 600-foot-long collaboration of murals on construction sheds over an affordable housing project in Brownsville, bringing together a diverse community and bringing color to the dull barriers surrounding the new housing developments until construction is finalized.
Nov. 14, 2023 By Anna Bradley-Smith Ten years ago Sybil Green, who goes by the name Tami, was biking down a stretch of Jackie Robinson Parkway’s residential frontage road, which connects Vermont Street in East New York with Highland Park, when she noticed a house that looked in disrepair, with a door ajar and a…
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Nov. 13, 2023 By Jada Camille
Residents of a Flatbush apartment building are suing their landlord and demanding the court force building management to make improvements in their decaying units after raw sewage leaked into their apartments and units became infested with black mold and vermin.
Nov. 1, 2023 By Anna Bradley-Smith
An affordable housing lottery has opened for the sale of 11 two- and three-family houses in Bed-Stuy and Crown Heights. The lottery is specifically for first-time home buyers with households of between two and seven people earning between $104,500 and $227,630 a year.
Oct. 23, 2023 By Cate Corcoran Close to topping out, the twin skyscrapers rising on Site D of Two Trees’ Domino redevelopment on the Williamsburg waterfront will be condos and rentals, including affordable housing. A sign recently went up on one of the towers proclaiming “condos” and “rentals.” To date, the mega-project has comprised only…
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Oct. 18, 2023 By Jada Camille
A new bagel shop run entirely by formerly-homeless veterans is set to open soon in Coney Island.