Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner: A Brownsville Affordable Housing Lottery

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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Bay Ridge Two-Family With Wood Floors, Built-ins, Stained Glass Asks $1.29 Million

Built as one of the bookends to an early 20th century mixed-use development in Bay Ridge, this tapestry brick row house offers some vintage interior features, including an intact dining room, and is still set up as a two-family. At 476 72nd Street, it has an apartment per floor with wall moldings, wood floors, and stained glass.

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A Marine Park Tudor With Parking and More to See, Starting at $865,999

Our picks for open houses to check out last weekend were found in Greenpoint, Marine Park, and Flatlands. They range in price from $865,999 to $4 million.

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Apartment in Crown Heights Queen Anne With Two Mantels, Wood Floors Asks $3,500

Tucked under the eaves of a picturesque Queen Anne row house in Crown Heights, this one-bedroom floor-through with original details and recent updates doesn’t stint on charm.

Topped by a pointy gable and mixing arched windows with textured brick and rough-faced brick, 843 Lincoln Place was constructed circa 1899 by builder/architect Frederick L. Hine. It’s on a notably leafy block in the Crown Heights North II Historic District that earlier this week won the Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s Greenest Block in Brooklyn competition — for the third time.

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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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