Top 5 Stories on Brownstoner This Week: A Housing Lottery, an Historic Bed Stuy Church Demolished

Affordable Housing Lottery Opens for Fort Greene Apartments Starting at $910 a Month

An affordable housing lottery has launched for 87 apartments in a new development on Fort Greene’s South Portland Avenue. The site formerly belonged to an orphanage and is now among a row of church-owned properties.

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Pre-Civil War Gothic Revival Church on Bed Stuy’s Willoughby Avenue Demolished as Locals Look On

The historic St. Lucy-St. Patrick Roman Catholic Church, which has dominated a block of Bed Stuy’s Willoughby Avenue since 1856, was being torn down in clouds of dust Monday and Tuesday to make way for housing.

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A Red Hook Brick Row House and Three Others to See, Starting at $799K

Our picks for open houses to check out this weekend are found in Bed Stuy, Red Hook, Bushwick, and Midwood. They range in price from $799,000 to $3.165 million.

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Williamsburg Project Will Adapt Historic Theater Into Apartments, Keep Rare Exterior

A 19th century Romanesque Revival-style building on Williamsburg’s South 6th Street, built as as theater and until recently slated to be razed for a 26-story hotel, will keep its striking exterior and be converted to a 29-unit residential building.

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Foundation Laid for Tax Break, Park Slope’s Grand Prospect Hall-Replacing Build Hits Snags

After an ultimate-hour storm of protests failed to save Park Slope’s iconic Grand Prospect Hall, the wedding and event venue that had stood for over a century was razed in a jiffy, but the apartment building that will replace it is taking some time.

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