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Housing Lottery Launches for 645 Park Place in Crown Heights, Brooklyn
11+ hour, 44+ min ago (161+ words) By: Vanessa Londono 7: 00 am on July 2, 2026 At 80 percent of the AMI, there are ten one-bedrooms with a monthly rent of $1, 929 for incomes ranging from $74, 778 to $122, 160, and five two-bedrooms with a monthly rent of $2, 247 for incomes ranging from $90, 618 to $146, 560. At 130 percent…...
Permits Filed for 393 Greene Avenue in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn
3+ day, 10+ hour ago (175+ words) By: Vanessa Londono 6: 30 am on June 29, 2026 Permits have been filed for a four-story residential expansion to a two-story building at 393 Greene Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Located between Franklin Avenue and Bedford Avenue, the lot is near the Bedford'Nostrand Avenues subway…...
Permits Filed for 258 East 53rd Street in East Flatbush, Brooklyn
6+ day, 10+ hour ago (166+ words) By: Vanessa Londono 6: 30 am on June 26, 2026 Permits have been filed for a four-story residential building at 258 East 53rd Street in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. Located between Church Avenue and Linden Boulevard, the lot is closest to the Sutter Avenue-Rutland Road subway station,…...
Utica Crescent Reaches Completion And Sparrow Square Commences
1+ week, 6+ day ago (203+ words) By: Max Gillespie 7: 30 am on June 19, 2026 Construction is complete on Utica Crescent and work is getting underway on Sparrow Square, two affordable housing developments in East Flatbush, Brooklyn that will collectively deliver 583 residential units. Utica Crescent, designed by Bernheimer Architecture…...
Permits Filed for 1035 Atlantic Avenue in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn
2+ week, 1+ day ago (181+ words) By: Vanessa Londono 6: 30 am on June 17, 2026 Permits have been filed for an 18-story mixed-use building at 1035 Atlantic Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Located between Classon Avenue and Franklin Avenue, the lot is one block from the Franklin Avenue subway station, served…...
Ongoing Office-To-Residential Conversions to Bring Nearly 3, 000 New Units to Manhattan
2+ week, 3+ day ago (893+ words) By: Michael Young and Matt Pruznick 8: 00 am on June 15, 2026 YIMBY checked in on the progress of ten office-to-residential conversions underway in Manhattan. The projects, located in the Financial District, Tribeca, No Ho, Midtown, and Hell's Kitchen, will repurpose the underutilized…...
Fischer Senior Apartments Opens At 97 West 169th Street in Highbridge, The Bronx
2+ week, 3+ day ago (166+ words) By: Michael Young and Matt Pruznick 7: 30 am on June 15, 2026 The development is part of the HPD Senior Affordable Rental Apartments (SARA) program and all units will be reserved for households 55 and older making less than 50 percent of the area median…...
Housing Lottery Launches for Botanic Heights at 960 Franklin Avenue in Crown Heights, Brooklyn
3+ week, 15+ hour ago (296+ words) New York YIMBY The affordable housing lottery has launched for Botanic Heights, a seven-story residential building at 960 Franklin Avenue in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Designed by Hamish Whitefield and developed by YS Developers LLC, the structure yields 290 residences. Available on NYC…...
Centre 360 Public Observatory Opens Atop David N. Dinkins Municipal Building At 1 Centre Street in Lower Manhattan
3+ week, 48+ min ago (248+ words) By: Michael Young and Matt Pruznick 8: 00 am on June 11, 2026 Wall panels detail the construction of the skyscraper, the history of the Civic Fame statue, and David N. Dinkins" career. Mayor Zohran Mamdani first announced the experience in February, and work on…...
Renderings Revealed For 289 Kent Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
3+ week, 6+ day ago (241+ words) By: Michael Young and Matt Pruznick 8: 00 am on June 5, 2026 The site is currently occupied by a low-rise industrial building and would require rezoning to proceed. The property owner filed a rezoning application with Brooklyn's Community Board 1 in mid April. 289 Kent…...