881 Erskine Street

Interiors of 2633 Ocean Avenue Apartments

Friday Housing Lottery Round-Up: Closings Imminent for Five Buildings in Brooklyn and The Bronx

7:00 am on January 22, 2021 By Vanessa Londono

Today’s housing lottery round-up features five buildings with affordable units on Housing Connect with deadlines closing within the next seven days. Unfortunately, an update to the Housing Connect website this week has apparently left the system rather glitchy, as it now lists incorrect numbers of units remaining, and the photos and renderings have similarly become defunct, all in the midst of New York City’s worst housing crisis since the 1930s.

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881 Erskine Street in East New York, Brooklyn

Affordable Housing Lottery Launches for Fountain Seaview B3 Apartments in East New York, Brooklyn

7:30 am on November 26, 2020 By Vanessa Londono

The affordable housing lottery is now open for Fountain Seaview B3 Apartments, a nine-story mixed-use development at 881 Erskine Street in East New York, Brooklyn. Designed by Aufgang Architects and developed by Arker Companies, the 131,386-square-foot will yield a total 144 units in a mix of studios, one-, two-, and three-bedroom units. Available on NYC Housing Connect are 112 apartments for residents at 30 to 60 percent of the area median income, ranging in eligible income from $13,543 to $84,600. The building is one of eight in the redevelopment of the former state-run Brooklyn Developmental Center site, with a mix of residential, retail, and community space. Overall Fountain Seaview will have 1,169 residential units with 397 of those designated as affordable housing.

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