Affordable Housing Lottery Opens for 17 Units Next to Broken Angel in Clinton Hill for $1,015 a Month

When New York voted de Blasio mayor back in 2010, many were voting for him as a vessel of affordability. Now, with his first term nearly finished, it’s both difficult to argue he didn’t do his best to fulfill that campaign promise and difficult to argue he was at all successful.

Instead of the anti-development agenda many seemed to have assumed he would take to bring affordability back to New York City, de Blasio instead put Bloomberg’s building-happy strategy on steroids so as to create subsidized units in new construction through a variety of variances and developer incentives.

The most recent affordable housing lottery to open to applications in Brooklyn is in Clinton Hill, at the freshly constructed 10 Lexington Avenue. (It sounds like it should be on the Upper East Side but it’s not. Should you win a unit there, be sure to remind visitors you’re in Brooklyn, not the city.)

There are 17 units up for lottery at the development, which is on the site of a former factory, and boasts a gym, rooftop terrace, laundry room and lounge. Long in the making by Brooklyn investor Joseph Brunner of Fulton Street Holdings and architect Studios/C, the 81-unit behemoth abuts the former Broken Angel on its Downing Street side.

All of the 17 units are one-bedrooms renting for $1,015 a month to one- or two-person households with a combined annual income of $34,800 to $45,840 a year, or 60 percent of the area median income.

Per usual, the building is smoke free and there’s no broker’s fee to enter the lottery (don’t be fooled by scammers who say otherwise). A percentage of units will be set aside for mobility-, vision- or hearing- disabled applicants and preference for a significant portion of units will go to residents of the area’s Brooklyn Community Board 2 as well as municipal employees.

The building is across the street from Francis Kimball’s masterful (and unprotected) warehouse for Frederick Loeser & Co., now a Salvation Army. It’s close to the G train at Classon Avenue and the A and C trains at the Clinton/Washington Avenue stop.

Applications are being accepted through October 30.

Care to tempt fate? Apply through NYC Housing Connect. To learn more about how to apply for affordable housing, read Brownstoner’s guide.

A version of this post originally ran on Brokelyn. You can read it here.

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