Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Bed Stuy Gains a New Historic District

A Prospect Park Standalone and More to See, Starting at $748K

Our picks for open houses to check out last weekend were found in Cobble Hill, Prospect Park South, Bay Ridge, and Sheepshead Bay. They range in price from $748,000 to $4.95 million.

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Affordable Housing Lottery Opens for Wavy East ‘Burg Building With $933 Units

An affordable housing lottery has opened for 35 apartments in a curvy development on the corner of Metropolitan and Bushwick avenues in East Williamsburg. The nine-story, 136-unit building at 828 Metropolitan Avenue has risen on the site of one of the many former gas stations in Brooklyn that have been replaced by residential developments.

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Condemned Kingston Cottage Turned Picturesque Charmer, Yours for $475K

For an old house lover with more admiration than patience for renovation, this Kingston cottage looks picture perfect inside and out after a 10-year project to rescue the previously condemned structure. Some remaining details were salvaged amidst a full house overhaul by Kingston designer, blogger, and old house rehabber Daniel Kanter, resulting in a petite dwelling with an abundance of charm.

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Affordable Housing Lottery in East New York Has $750 Studio Apartments

An affordable housing lottery for an East New York building with units starting at $750 per month is open for applications, with a total of 19 units available. The building sits beside another almost identical development whose affordable housing lottery kicked off days earlier. Both are designed by Nikolai Katz and developed by Urbane Management Inc., city records show.

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Locals Celebrate Creation of Bed Stuy’s Willoughby-Hart Historic District

Almost two years after Willoughby Avenue’s historic Jacob Dangler mansion was torn down during a landmarking review process, sending many neighbors into mourning, Willoughby Avenue and Hart Street locals were jubilant today after the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission voted unanimously to preserve their blocks of predominantly late 19th century Neo-Grec brownstones.

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