Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner: A Brownsville Affordable Housing Lottery

Brownsville Affordable Housing Lottery With $774 Three-Bedrooms Opens

An affordable housing lottery has started for 165 truly affordable apartments in an under-construction Brownsville building, with one-bedroom units starting at $484 per month.

The lottery is for the third and final building in the 100 percent affordable Ebenezer Plaza complex, developed in a partnership between Ebenezer Urban Ministries Center (formerly the Church of God of East Flatbush) and a group of other affordable housing developers.

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Father Divine’s Piece of Heaven in Ulster County, Yours for $1.5 Million

It offered a bit of heavenly living for the followers of the charismatic Father Divine in the 1930s, and this Kingston property still offers a bucolic bit of acreage with a substantial Second Empire brick manse. There is room for plenty with an additional carriage house, playhouse, and 20th century garage.

At 67 Chapel Street in the Wilbur neighborhood of Kingston, the house on the market was built circa 1870, well before the 1936 purchase by Father Divine’s followers, but it is perhaps that slice of history in the long chain of ownership that is the most attention grabbing.

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Affordable Housing Lottery With $617 Units Opens in Brownsville

An affordable housing lottery has opened for 86 truly affordable apartments in a new Brownsville development, with one-bedroom units starting at $617 per month. The two-building, seven-story development, which has taken the place of two low-lying brick warehouses, also includes almost 40,000 square feet of light manufacturing space that will be operated by Greenpoint Manufacturing and Design Center.

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Court Allows Partition Sale of Bed Stuy Home in Family for 75 Years

Ayisha Doyle, like her mother and her children, was raised in the grand brownstone on Jefferson Avenue in Bed Stuy. She still calls the house home, one of five generations of her family who have done so since her great-grandparents purchased the 1880s single-family house in the 1940s.

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Our picks for open houses to check out this weekend are found in Clinton Hill, Bushwick, Prospect Lefferts Gardens, and Bed Stuy. They range in price from $1.499 million to $2.6 million.

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