Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Fixing the BQE, Affordable Housing in East New York

Affordable Housing Lottery Opens for 240 Units in East New York, Starting at $395 a Month

An affordable housing lottery has opened for a whopping 240 newly constructed units in three buildings that are part of the second phase of East New York’s Livonia Commons complex, located at 453 Hinsdale Avenue, 500 Livonia Avenue and 487 Livonia Avenue.
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Spacious Gowanus Brownstone and Three More to See This Weekend, Starting at $1.625 Million

Half of this weekend’s open house picks are in the $1.6 million range, and the other two in the $3 million range. They span from Gowanus and Park Slope to Bed Stuy and Crown Heights, keeping it to the brownstone belt and adjacent nabes.

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Three-Bedroom Co-op in Converted 19th Century Park Slope Brownstone Asks $1.199 Million

Here’s a three-bedroom co-op in a converted 20-foot-wide brownstone in Park Slope with minimal original details. That said, the unit, one of four in the self-managed townhouse at 747 Union Street, remains quaint and charming.

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The Insider: New Four-Story Addition Expands and Brightens Growing Family’s Boerum Hill Townhouse

After more than a decade in their vintage townhouse, its owners were ready for a big renovation push that would give them the large eat-in kitchen and additional space they craved for their growing family.

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The Promenade Should Stay, Locals Agree. But What Should Be Done With the BQE?

At a project update meeting last night for the rehabilitation of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, Peter Bray, the president of the Brooklyn Heights Association, kicked off the public comments by comparing the situation to Dante’s “Inferno.”

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