Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: A Housing Lottery Launches in Williamsburg

Affordable Housing Lottery Opens for Williamsburg Tower With $1,467 Studios

An affordable housing lottery has opened for 49 apartments in a towering new mixed-income development on Boerum Street in Williamsburg. The 19-story, 162-unit building at 159 Boerum Street, which rises far above any other structure on the block, has gone up on the site of the former parking lot attached to a low-lying 1980s affordable housing complex at 170 Johnson Avenue. Across the street and on nearby blocks are NYCHA housing projects including Borinquen Plaza I and II, Bushwick-Hylan Houses, and Williamsburg Houses.

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Park Slope Neo-Grec With Mantels, Built-ins, Art Studio Asks $4.195 Million

Filled with period detail, this Park Slope Neo-Grec is on the market for the first time in decades. In addition to moldings, mantels, and built-ins, it features a top floor artist’s studio. The late painter Lennart Anderson purchased the brownstone at 877 Union Street in the 1960s, and it hasn’t been on the market since.

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Renovated Park Slope Two-Bedroom With Wood Floors, Mantel Asks $1.195 Million

In an 1890s flats building, this two-bedroom co-op benefits from two exposures and has a few period touches along with some modern storage solutions. It is on the second floor of 719 Carroll Street, an eight-unit building just outside of the Park Slope Historic District.

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The Insider: Wood and Glass Dividing Wall Reshapes Brooklyn Heights Loft

The 1,600-square-foot space was what architectural designer Adam Robinson called “a very traditional one-bedroom loft with good bones,” referring to the exposed timber ceiling beams and wood floors from the vintage building’s commercial origins.

“Otherwise, it was just kind of a whitewall treatment. It didn’t have any character or warmth,” recalled Robinson, founder and principal designer of Montreal-based Bureau Tempo, a full-service design firm taking on its first Brooklyn project. He had been referred to the new homeowner, a single professional, by her friends in Canada, for whom Bureau Tempo designed a lakeside cottage.

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Brooklyn Home Prices Keep Climbing as Rents Drop

Home prices just keep rising in Brooklyn as the number of sales drop but listing inventory is starting to increase as interest rates notch down, third quarter reports out this week found. Separately, rents dipped slightly although rental bidding wars made up a quarter of signed leases, September reports showed.

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