The affordable housing lottery has launched for 303 Sumpter Street, a four-story residential building in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Designed by Bahram Tehrani of Best Engineering Technology Design and developed by Pitkin Group LLC, the structure yields eight residences. Available on NYC Housing Connect are three units for residents at 130 percent of the area median income (AMI), ranging in eligible income from $85,098 to $227,500.
Residences have air conditioning, energy-efficient appliances, charging outlets with USB ports, intercoms, smart controls for heating and cooling, patios or balconies, and name-brand kitchen appliances, countertops, and finishes. Tenants are responsible for electricity, including heat and hot water.
303 Sumpter Street in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn via NYC Housing Connect
303 Sumpter Street in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn via NYC Housing Connect
303 Sumpter Street in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn via NYC Housing Connect
At 130 percent of the AMI, there is one one-bedroom with a monthly rent of $2,226 for incomes ranging from $85,098 to $189,540, and two two-bedrooms with a monthly rent of $2,684 for incomes ranging from $105,635 to $227,500.
Prospective renters must meet income and household size requirements to apply for these apartments. Applications must be postmarked or submitted online no later than October 30, 2025.
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The kitchen is cute.
It’s great to finally see a photo of a building with a few garbage containers out front..real life for a change.
It’s time the city bans out front garbage cans in all new projects. The rats will just have to make do somewhere else.
I suspect the new DSNY containerization program will eventually expand to center block collection in areas of lower unit count buildings. People will fight it but people need to stop being so ****** lazy. Europeans and many others have always had this arrangment. People will adapt and neighborhoods will look so much better without individual bins and cans out front every single walk up.
Interesting points, I’m glad my comment earlier about seeing these bins set off this discussion which is long overdue..
There is nothing affordable about this building.
8 units total
5 units are fully unaffordable by definition
3 units are affordable if you are in the top 20% of income aka 130% AMI but not the average person.
What kind of incentives or subsidies do these unaffordable buildings receive? Is it just the “affordable” units or all 8 that receive them
We should only incentivise buildings that are at least half affordable (100% AMI) Even then that still excludes exactly half of the areas residents.
What if the 5 units were priced 130% AMI and the 3 others priced at 100% AMI? Its still a far cry from affirdabl, but can the developers still make a profit?