Top 5 Stories This Week: Houses on the Market, a Reno With Moody Colors

A Brooklyn Heights Wood Frame and More to See, Starting at $575K

Our picks for open houses to check out last weekend were found in Brooklyn Heights, Marine Park, and East Flatbush. They range in price from $575,000 to $12.995 million.

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Carroll Gardens Brownstone With Colorful Decor, Central Air Asks $3.6 Million

An infusion of color and pattern is layered alongside original Italianate and Neo-Grec features in this Carroll Gardens brownstone, making for rather photogenic rooms. Bold geometric tile in the kitchen, a deep-teal parlor, and a mix of wallpapers combine with wide-plank floorboards, Italianate niches, and tin ceilings in the 16-foot-wide dwelling.

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City Rent Voucher Rule Change Could Prevent Homelessness

As New York City grapples with the ongoing housing crisis, CityFHEPS, a city-funded voucher program for low-income households, has played an increasingly prominent role in securing housing for some of the poorest residents in the city. But the program, which has grown astronomically since its inception in 2018, is locked in legal turmoil amid a years-long battle to expand it.

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Rich Prints, Moody Colors, Vintage Furnishings Warm Maplewood Colonial

A stately 1930s Colonial in Maplewood, New Jersey was in good condition but lacked personality, having been painted bright white in most rooms for resale. The homeowner, who had lived there for about a year with her family, “knows what she likes” and called on Hollie Velten-Lattrell of Spaces by Hollie Velten to “pull things together” and create “balance and harmony.”

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Bushwick Affordable Housing Lottery With Units From $994 Closes Soon

A housing lottery for 19 truly affordable apartments in Bushwick, spread across three new buildings, is closing in two days.

The Bushwick Alliance apartments are in three new four-story buildings at 63 Stockholm Street, 332 Eldert Street, and 272 Jefferson Street and they include studios, one- and two-bedroom apartments. There are 28 apartments in total across the three buildings, according to Department of Building records, and 19 are included in the lottery.

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