By COLlive reporter
An affordable housing lottery has opened up for 40 units in a newly constructed eight-story building at 564 St. Johns Place in Crown Heights, brownstoner.com reported.
The apartment building is exactly a mile from Lubavitch Headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway and about 2 blocks from the Brooklyn Museum and its Subway station, Brooklyn Botanic Garden and Grand Army Plaza.
There are 40 affordable apartments in the Frederick Olmstead building: 30 are one-bedroom units and 10 more are two-bedroom units, starting at $1,080 and topping out at $1,223 per month.
The lottery is set an area median income range of 60 percent, Brownstoner reported. Eligible incomes range between $37,029 and $62,580 for households of one to four people.
There are also market-rate rentals in the building. One-bedrooms range from $2,800 to $3,762, and two-bedrooms range from $3,231 to $4,615 which include balconies, open floor plans with combined living/kitchen/dining areas, hardwood floors, stainless steel appliances and in-unit laundry.
There’s a part-time attended lobby, rooftop terrace and playroom. For an additional fee, there is access to a parking garage, storage units, bike storage, a business lounge, library, event room, garden, fitness center, yoga room and locker rooms.
“It’s not so cheap and it’s far from the center but maybe some people in the neighborhood would be interested in applying,” a Crown Heights community activist told COLlive.com.
Applications must be submitted by July 24. Apply to the NYC Housing Connect.
If you don’t like it don’t apply. Makes the chances better for those who do like it.
Seems like those “market rate” apartments are the ones subsidizing the low income ones. Those are outrageous prices. It just incourages ppl to make little money to have everything provided to them.
Pack the application process file file file . That was how the old Young Israel site 915 EP was filled with Yidden and is so today . Hundreds must file for all apts and then perhaps some yidden will win . In other neighborhoods this was done as well and it worked . Onward and upward . The area has yuppies and hugely changed over the last 5 years .
what will your children see when they look out the window , ? your sukka is where ? a mile from 770 and the price no bargain . better to stay in tight quarters in the shechuna who many waking hours are you home anyway?
stop with the grumbling already – Col is a news website for chabad, centered in CH. If they won’t report this someone else will. Do you really want them to can half the news stories?
We are in a social and information age, It is what it is. You can’t hide it – so make it work and work with it..
Just thinking at least I don’t read a bunch of naresh fake news here, I might not like what the news is about but that my friends, is life as we live it today in our times.
another COL article that reminds of the disappointment in this community in the housing area
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I hope COL will one day post about a wonderful building complex, with 3-4 bedroom apts for OUR community for the newly married and for those who need assistance. Rent stabilized and affordable
read the rules this is perfect for a chasan kalah.
if the $ is right, 2 people could apply for the 2 bedroom apartment
Of course. This was NOT in mind for religious Jewish families. 🙄
you gotta be kidding
parents a dog and a cat?
$2,800 is normal for a new family
the price in CH is crazy
I thought 3 bedroom runs $6,400 what a bargen!
Maybe good for singles …. definitely not for CH large families… these programs are not catering for Jewish families….. that low income but with 3-6 kids ….