Lottery For 40 Below-Market Apartments In Harlem Accepting Applications

HARLEM, NY — An affordable housing lottery for 40 apartments spread out between four Harlem buildings is accepting applications through the end of March. The buildings, located at 304 W. 152nd St., 232 W. 149th St., 2797 Frederick Douglass Blvd and 2472 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd, are renting studios and one-bedroom, two-bedroom and four-bedroom apartments at rates below market value.

The cheapest units, two studio apartments, will rent for a reasonable $822 per month. Meanwhile the most expensive units, four four-bedroom apartments, will rent for $1,371 per month. The majority of the units — 21 apartments — are one-bedrooms being rented for $882 per month.

Thirty-six of the below-market-rate units are being offered to families making 60 percent of the area median average and four are being offered to families making 50 percent of the area median average, according to the city's housing connect website.

Here's a chart from Housing Connect that details the available units and levels of affordability:

Prospective tenants can apply for the housing lottery online using the Housing Connect website. Applications must be submitted by March 31 and there will be no fee to apply. Additionally a mail-in application can be received by sending a self-addressed letter to: Dorie Miller Apartments, 87-14 116th Street Richmond Hill, NY 11418.

Fifty percent of the units will be prioritized for people living in Manhattan Community Board 1o, which covers the area in Central Harlem bound by Central Park North, Fifth Avenue, The Harlem River, and St. Nicholas Avenue. An additional 5 percent will be prioritized for city employees as well as 5 percent for mobility-disabled applicants and 2 percent for vision- or hearing-disabled applicants.

In October the city announced it would be revising the rules of affordable housing lotteries to protect low-income residents from being discriminated against. Applicants to affordable housing lotteries will no longer be subject to rejection based solely on poor credit scores or past disputes with landlords in housing court.

Photo of 2472 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvd by Google Maps street view