Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: An Affordable Housing Lottery in Fort Greene
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The new development on South Portland Avenue. Photo by Susan De Vries
Affordable Housing Lottery Opens for Fort Greene Apartments Starting at $910 a Month
An affordable housing lottery has launched for 87 apartments in a new development on Fort Greene’s South Portland Avenue. The site formerly belonged to an orphanage and is now among a row of church-owned properties.
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Park Slope Condo Triplex in Kinko-Style House With Mantels, Wood Floors Asks $2.4 Million
In an early 20th century Kinko-style house, this upper triplex offers three floors of living space, mantels, moldings, and wood floors. Built as a two-family dwelling, 396 9th Street was converted into condos in 2004.
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Wavy Nine-Story Apartment Building Ascends at Bushwick and Metropolitan Avenues
A nine-story apartment building with a curved and rippled facade like an Art Deco ocean liner is rising at the epicenter of one of the oldest settlements in Brooklyn. Benefiting from a rezoning and replacing the gas station that long held the corner of Bushwick and Metropolitan in East Williamsburg, the development will have 136 rentals, some of which will be affordable housing.
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Former Gowanus Brewery, Clinton Hill Warehouse Slated to Become Migrant Shelters
Under emergency contracts relating to the migrant crisis, and with little public oversight, warehouses in Gowanus and Clinton Hill are being converted into large homeless shelters that could potentially operate for years.
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Foundation Laid for Tax Break, Park Slope’s Grand Prospect Hall-Replacing Build Hits Snags
After an ultimate-hour storm of protests failed to save Park Slope’s iconic Grand Prospect Hall, the wedding and event hall that had stood for over a century was razed in a jiffy, but the apartment building that will replace it is taking some time.
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