An affordable housing lottery has opened for 49 apartments in a towering new mixed-income development on Boerum Street in Williamsburg. The 19-story, 162-unit building at 159 Boerum Street, which rises far above any other structure on the block, has gone up on the site of the former parking lot attached to a low-lying 1980s affordable housing complex at 170 Johnson Avenue. Across the street and on nearby blocks are NYCHA housing projects including Borinquen Plaza I and II, Bushwick-Hylan Houses, and Williamsburg Houses.
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Filled with period detail, this Park Slope Neo-Grec is on the market for the first time in decades. In addition to moldings, mantels, and built-ins, it features a top floor artist’s studio. The late painter Lennart Anderson purchased the brownstone at 877 Union Street in the 1960s, and it hasn’t been on the market since.
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In an 1890s flats building, this two-bedroom co-op benefits from two exposures and has a few period touches along with some modern storage solutions. It is on the second floor of 719 Carroll Street, an eight-unit building just outside of the Park Slope Historic District…