Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Housing Lotteries in Downtown Brooklyn and Boerum Hill

Affordable Housing Lottery Opens to Fill Units in DoBro’s The Hub, Starting at $833 a Month

An affordable housing lottery has opened for 12 vacant apartments — and a waitlist — in the amenity-packed Downtown Brooklyn skyscraper The Hub, with rents starting at $833 a month for a studio.

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A Dry Good Merchant’s Second Empire-Style Newburgh Townhouse, Yours for $578K

This Newburgh residence was involved in an interesting court tussle in the 1930s, but before that the Second Empire-style dwelling was the home of a 19th century dry goods merchant and his family. The house has had some more recent renovations, but there is still room for a new owner to wrap up some projects and make some major design decisions, including finding some period-appropriate mantels.

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A Slee & Bryson Row House in Crown Heights With Built-ins, Rumpus Room, Parking Asks $2 Million

It has a charming exterior with the early 20th century Colonial Revival details at which prolific Brooklyn architects Slee & Bryson excelled, and there are some original interior touches still to be found inside this Crown Heights house as well. Those details, like wood floors, built-ins, and wainscoting, could use some TLC, but the single-family has a generous amount of space including a rumpus room in the basement with a built-in bar.

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Affordable Housing Lottery Opens for Alloy’s First Boerum Hill Tower, With Studios From $763

An affordable housing lottery has opened for 45 apartments in an under-construction building at 505 State Street in Boerum Hill. The building is the first of two residential towers in developer Alloy’s controversial development 80 Flatbush, now known as Alloy Block.

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Williamsburg HDFC Co-op With Two Bedrooms, High Ceilings, Wood Floors Asks $350K

It’s a petite sixth-floor walkup not far from the polluting BQE, but even for an HDFC co-op, it’s on the affordable end of the price scale. Located at 274 South 2nd Street in Williamsburg, it has two bedrooms and appears to be in move-in condition.

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