Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: Affordable Housing Debuts in Downtown Brooklyn

Affordable Housing Lottery Opens in Downtown Brooklyn With Studios Starting at $897

Affordable units starting at $897 a month are now up for grabs in the big glassy building going up at 33 Bond Street in Downtown Brooklyn where a huge block-long parking garage stood for years.

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This Bronxville Home Asking $3.195 Million Was Developed for “a Genius or Delightful Person”

An 1890s home now on the market in Bronxville, N.Y., was one of the earliest built in this planned community for the bohemian-bourgeois just north of New York City and gives a little insight into how its early suburbanites lived.

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Four Houses to See This Weekend, Including a Wallpaper Time Capsule

This weekend’s open house picks span four neighborhoods and a range of price points, from expensive ($1.35 million) to really expensive ($3.8 million). Two are gut renovated, one is in pristine shape but might call for some cosmetic tweaking, and one may need some updating, though the evidence presented is incomplete.

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Singer Santigold Puts Striking Bed Stuy Brownstone on Market for $1.95 Million

This Bed Stuy brownstone is a head turner, with choice original details and some bold design choices that will thrill some buyers and turn off others. If it looks like it wasn’t the work of your average brownstone dweller that’d be correct — it’s the home of the flamboyant and genre-blurring singer and producer Santigold.

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Five Facts About the Controversial 421-a Tax Break and How It Will Affect Brooklyn

In Albany, state lawmakers are working on tweaks to the expired and controversial 421-a program, which gives a tax break to developers in exchange for putting affordable housing in their developments. Up for debate is whether the tax break is too big or not big enough and whether developers should be required to pay construction workers higher wages on large projects in prime areas in Brooklyn and beyond.

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