Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: A Senior Housing Lottery Launches in Bed Stuy
Catch up on your reading with a look at the most popular stories from the past week.
A rendering of the new development. Image via NYC Housing Connect
Housing Lottery Opens for Deeply Affordable Senior Apartments in Bed Stuy
A lottery has launched for 43 truly affordable apartments for seniors in an under-construction development at 811 Lexington Avenue in Bed Stuy, the site of the former Mars Fudge and Fruit Company factory.
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A Park Slope Row House With Central Air and Three More to See, Starting at $1.188 Million
Our picks for open houses to check out last weekend were found in Park Slope, Ditmas Park West, Bay Ridge, and Dyker Heights. They range in price from $1.188 million to $4.3 million.
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Historic East New York Church May Be Demolished for New Affordable Housing Complex
A 19th-century Romanesque Revival church in East New York, Grace Baptist Church, will be torn down to make way for a 100 percent affordable housing complex with more than 140 units, if the church’s plans laid out in a rezoning application are greenlit by the city. The complex, which will include space for a new church sanctuary, also involves razing surrounding properties on New Jersey Avenue and Vermont Street.
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Opulent Montrose Morris-Designed Park Slope Mansion Asks $13.995 Million
With an eye-popping level of detail inside and out, this massive limestone commands a corner across from Prospect Park and has had some updates for modern living without sacrificing its period extravagance.
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Center for Brooklyn History Set to Open to the Public This Week in Brooklyn Heights
A new blue banner has been unfurled in front of the historic Pierrepont Street facade and now, for the first time since the pandemic, history lovers without appointments will be able to return to the former Brooklyn Historical Society — newly reborn as the Center for Brooklyn History.
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