Bushwick
A rendering of the development at Bushwick’s former Rheingold site (Via ODA) BUSHWICK – As the enormous development at the former Rheingold Brewery site nears completion, the affordable housing units at 54 Noll Street and 123 Melrose Street have entered the city lottery. The percentage of affordable units available in
Bushwick
The new building at 22 Melrose in Bushwick has a handful of pricey apartments in the NYC Housing Lottery (Screenshot via Google Maps)BUSHWICK – Another set of allegedly affordable apartments has hit the NYC Housing Connect Lottery, this time at 22 Melrose Street, right off the Myrtle JMZ stop in
News
The building at 126 Boerum Street has some pricey apartments available in the housing lottery (Screenshot via Google Maps)WILLIAMSBURG – Three new one-bedroom units became available on the NYC Housing Connect [https://a806-housingconnect.nyc.gov/nyclottery/lottery.html] website this morning, though they may stretch some applicants’ definition of “affordable.
Central Brooklyn
Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BKLYNERCROWN HEIGHTS/FLATBUSH – Adem Bunkeddeko is living the American Dream. Son of Ugandan war refugees, who arrived in the country with $50 and hope, he is running to unseat Congresswoman Yvette Clarke, [/?s=yvette+clarke] who has been representing the 9th Congressional District in Brooklyn for the
Announcements
140 units of affordable housing on India Street in Greenpoint are now available via lottery (Paul Stremple/BKLYNER)GREENPOINT – Along with the massive high-rise construction coming to Greenpoint’s exploding waterfront development scene, a new building’s worth of affordable housing units has just been added to the NYC Housing
clinton hill
During the meeting, tenants of the association discussed their legal rights against their landlord, such as withholding rent but putting it in escrow, if repairs are not being done. (Esther Shittu/BKLYNER)CLINTON HILL – When Andrea Campbell received a $26 overdue rent balance from Coastline Apartments back in May 2015,
Arts & Culture
BROOKLYN BOROUGH HALL – Theatre of the Oppressed NYC [http://www.tonyc.nyc/] will present Apartment Complex, a play that addresses the struggles many New Yorkers face in finding and securing safe and affordable housing. Via Facebook [https://www.facebook.com/theatreoftheoppressednyc/]Created and performed by members of the Housing Works
Central Brooklyn
CROWN HEIGHTS – At a City Council land use subcommittee meeting on Tuesday, November 21, Council Member Laurie Cumbo (District 35) announced that a modified agreement for the controversial Bedford-Union Armory [/one-way-crown-heights-feel-armory-decision-communitys-hands/] project has been reached, with the removal of 60 market-rate condos that were previously proposed and the inclusion of
East New York
EAST NEW YORK – The New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) announced [http://www.nychdc.com/pr_10-27-2017] last week that a site located at Chestnut Street and Dinsmore Place, just off Atlantic Avenue, will be home to a new 274-unit affordable housing development called Chestnut Commons.
Central Brooklyn
CROWN HEIGHTS – The City Planning Commission [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/planning/about/commission.page] voted 11-1 on Monday to give the go-ahead to the divisive Bedford-Union Armory redevelopment project [/one-way-crown-heights-feel-armory-decision-communitys-hands/]. Bedford-Union Armory (Ben Foldy / BKLYNER)In 2014, the mayor’s Economic Development Corporation requested proposals to convert the vacant
brownsville
An architectural rendering of the proposed housing development “Edwin’s Place” (Rendering via Robert A.M. Stern Architects)BROWNSVILLE – The City Planning Commission has unanimously approved plans for a new housing development that will bring 125 affordable homes to homeless and low-income families in Brownsville. The decision came down yesterday,
Announcements
FLATBUSH – The New York City Economic Development Corporation [https://www.nycedc.com/] (EDC) filed construction documents this week for a 255-unit, 100% affordable rental development at 2119 Caton Avenue. Flatbush Caton Market on the corner of Flatbush and Caton Avenues (via Google Maps)BRP Companies [http://www.brpcompanies.com], Urbane