Applications Open for Affordable Units in Crown Heights Starting at $650 a Month
The long-in-the-works development in Crown Heights is setting aside units for low-income families and individuals, as well as adults with psychiatric disabilities.
Rendering of 1552 Bergen Street via Concern for Independent Living
Applications are now open for 90 affordable apartments at a long-in-the-works development in Crown Heights.
Concern Bergen at 1552 Bergen Street will be ready to welcome tenants by September, DNAinfo reported. The complex, close to Utica Avenue and Atlantic Avenues, cost nearly $30 million to build and will be beautifully landscaped when it is finished, renderings reveal.
Of the building’s 90 units, 55 will be set aside for adults with psychiatric disabilities, 33 for low-income families and individuals, and the remaining two units will be unregulated. The below-market-rate units include 11 one-bedrooms, which will rent for $650 a month, and 21 two-bedrooms, which will rent for $760 a month, DNAinfo reported. Eligible applicants must have an annual income of between $26,000 and $45,300, depending on family size.
Amenities at the facility will include a first-floor community space, fitness center, lounges, computer lab and library.
Long-Island-based developer, sponsor and managing agent Concern for Independent Living, a nonprofit housing and support services agency, filed new building applications for the property in 2013, and construction has been ongoing since 2015. The nonprofit bought the property, formerly home to a 23,650-square-foot red-brick factory building, for $3.525 million in July 2013.
To apply, fill out an application [PDF] with Concern for Independent Living (the property is not available on Housing Connect, the usual website for affordable developments).
Not far away in Ocean Hill, a lottery opened earlier this month for affordable units at another long-awaited complex, Prospect Plaza.
[Source: DNA]
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