Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Bed Stuy Housing Lottery Launches With 199 Units

Affordable Bed Stuy Development Has Studios From $365, Three-Bedrooms From $652

A lottery has launched for 199 affordable apartments in an under-construction development at 1911 Atlantic Avenue in Bed Stuy.

The 14-story building will include studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments for households of one to seven people who earn between 30 and 70 percent of the Area Median Income. That ranges from $16,218 for a single person to as much as $132,400 for a family of seven.

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Bed Stuy Family Watches as Possessions Thrown in Trash, Locks Changed in Alleged Deed Theft Case

Earlier this month, Salvanita and Moses Foster got a phone call. Someone was changing the locks on the Bed Stuy home they purchased in 1999 and had lived in until a 2019 fire. Their possessions were being thrown from the windows into the trash, the neighbor said.

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Brooklyn Heights Townhouse With Designer Showhouse Makeover Asks $12 Million

With a substantial designer makeover, including a new pale pink kitchen, this Brooklyn Heights Greek Revival is back on the market and offers some stylish touches in addition to a grand scale that includes five floors of living space. At 145 Columbia Heights, the 26-foot-wide brick house hosted the most recent Brooklyn Heights Designer Showhouse and the listing photos show the furnishings still in place.

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Massive Brooklyn Heights Row House With Literary History, Plasterwork, Roof Deck Asks $11.5 Million

While the origins of this Brooklyn Heights row house are Greek Revival, the 26-foot wide manse has had some changes over the centuries that include the addition of a fourth floor, expanding its already generous amount of space. Steps from the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, the brick house at 20 Remsen Street includes some 19th century details like marble mantels and plasterwork, some 20th century history — it once housed Norman Mailer’s writing studio — and modern perks such as a sauna, wine cellar and a roof deck with Manhattan skyline views.

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Crown Heights Landlord Harassment, ‘A Living Hell,’ Includes Sewage, Drug Deals: Lawsuit

Over the past six months, 76-year-old Park Place tenant Francis Roberts says he has had sewage bubbling up through his kitchen sink due to broken plumbing and more leaking in front of his bedroom windows from two portable toilets set up outside. He alleges drug deals have taken place in tents set up around his front door where unknown people sleep and that he has woken up to a stranger using his computer at his table. That he has had music blared into his living room 24 hours a day through a hole in the ceiling. All the while, he said, he has seen no action on the increasing deterioration of his garden-floor apartment, which is plagued by mold, leaks, and gas and electricity outages.

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