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New 'Affordable' Brooklyn Housing Lottery Only For $73K And Up
Even in the affordable housing lottery, new apartments at 406 Remsen Avenue are priced beyond the reach of some longtime residents.

Even in the affordable housing lottery, new apartments at 406 Remsen Avenue are priced beyond the reach of some longtime residents.

The latest plan for the high-rise aims to further protect the rare plants from the shadows made by the building, garden officials said.

The developments are part of the Atlantic Avenue Mixed-Use Plan, which just entered its public review phase.
A market-rate building will be built on the Franklin Avenue lot instead of the 10-story high-rise with affordable housing.
Work on the remaining eight buildings could resume by the end of 2025 if the deal goes well.
A controversial development on a Crown Heights street is nearing completion, bringing new affordable units to the market.
A new report broke down the median one-bedroom rent price in 81 NYC neighborhoods, including in Prospect Heights.
The development will include 43 affordable housing units and a health care facility.
A 33,000-square-foot Lidl supermarket could land on Bedford Avenue by the end of 2024.
Some 60 residences are earmarked for formerly homeless households in a new 200-unit housing project in Crown Heights.
Prospect Lefferts Gardens was saw the biggest increase in home sales over the past year, according to a new study from Property Shark.
Beverly Rivers' case could change the game for renters battling 'slumlords' who rent gauge despite poor conditions, advocates say.
Applications opened for 240 units at 595 Dean Street, but the affordable housing lottery is asking residents make over $78K for a studio.
Lotteries opened for a number of "affordable" units in Central Brooklyn — but you have to make over $98,000 a year to qualify.
Prospect Lefferts Gardens tenants say their landlord schemed to increase rent by manipulating documented prices and monthly discounts.
With 1,600 buildings already protected, advocates are working to add a new area to the Crown Heights North Historic District.
The massive development welcomed its first residents after years of community pushback on its affordability.
The new building will see a single-story garage turn into a 12-unit apartment building.
A lawyer for two Crown Heights buildings where tenants are on strike says that eviction proceedings are to help tenants, not evict them.
Someone tried to build a single family home here in 2013, but it seems like they never got off the ground.
Nearly 80 apartments will replace the Sterling Place garage, according to building records.
The 421a incentive program, which costs the city nearly $1.8 billion in lost tax revenue, has expired, but still brings pricy units online.
Blumenfeld Development Group Signs Centers Urgent Care to 10-year lease
The incoming German grocer ranked number three on a list compiled by The Real Deal of the largest deals in Brooklyn for 2022.
A new Comptroller's office study found the two neighborhoods are among the top in the borough for heat outage complaints.
Three Crown Heights buildings made it to the top ten worst Brooklyn buildings list, according to the Public Advocate's office.
The former owner of 781 Washington Ave. was sued in 2014 for trying to exit the Section 8 affordable housing program, reports show.
1526 Lincoln Pl. was sold last year for $600,000.
Tenant Francis Roberts rejected a settlement that would have given him 15 months of free rent.
After nearly a decade, the city seeks to take action on a community-led rezoning effort known as M-CROWN, as spot rezonings lay in wait.
The early stages of construction have begun at 527 Grand Ave. for a nine-story residential building, a local real estate blog reports.
Complaints include chickens and a man who wore the Ten Commandments as a hat to Brooklyn Supreme Court, court records and reports show.
The site at 960 Franklin Ave. — where towers nearly rose over the Botanic Gardens — was bought for $43 million, The Real Deal reports.
A new StreetEasy study suggests, for those who can collect the cash, now's the time to buy in Crown Heights.
Take an inside look of the mixed-use apartment complex at 595 Dean St.
After years of lying fallow, five empty lots on Prospect Place lots will most likely be developed as condos, brokers say.
Tenants can make as little as $18,000 a year to apply to the building, the second to be built in the armory redevelopment project.
"This project isn’t a field of dreams — it’s a field of schemes," Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon said of the promised arena-subway connector.
The landlord, who has properties in Crown Heights and Bed-Stuy, is one of several the attorney general is investigating given new rent laws.
The Linden Boulevard and Park Place complexes have 23 total units up for grabs.