Locals Call on Pol to Reduce Arrow Linen Rezoning, Back Fully Affordable Build

As the controversial rezoning proposal for Arrow Linen’s site in Park Slope moves through the city process, advocates for a shorter, more affordable housing development say they have found a developer willing to build one.

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The two towers at 420 Carroll Street in July of this year. Photo by Susan De Vries

Affordable Housing Lottery Opens for Gowanus Canal Towers With $784 Studios

One of the first luxury towers to benefit from the Gowanus rezoning is nearly complete and has launched an affordable housing lottery as well as market-rate rentals.

The affordable housing lottery opened today for the towering complex at 420 Carroll Street, right on the banks of the canal, with studios starting at $784 a month. Meanwhile, market-rate units, which went on the market in late July according to StreetEasy, include studio apartments starting at $3,436 a month, the building’s website shows.

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A Boerum Hill Row House With Solar Panels and More to See, Starting at $2.795 Million

Our picks for open houses to check out last weekend were found in Cobble Hill, Park Slope, Windsor Terrace, and Boerum Hill. They range in price from $2.795 million to $5.5 million.


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Ayisha and Phillipa Doyle outside their home. Photo by Anna Bradley-Smith

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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The Ebenezer Plaza development. Rendering via NYC Housing Connect

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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