Greenpoint’s newest waterfront tower is finally opening its housing lottery.
Two Blue Slip, a project by Brookfield Properties and Park Tower Group, now has 127 units available for rental for those who qualify for middle income housing.
The 40-story apartment complex boasting 421 units is right on the water, across from One Blue Slip.
New York residents with combined household incomes between $81,258 and $192,400, or 130 percent of this area’s median income, can…
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It’s a joke. These units should be labeled not quite as unaffordable as the standard obscene rents being charged here.
Does anyone know how long after the lottery closes for applicants to be notified?
What a joke. $100,000 is about double NYC’s median income. Definitely not “middle income.” Like most of de Blasio’s so-called “affordable housing,” the offered units are for people with lots of money, just the way gentrifying landlords want it.