Construction is finished on 1601 DeKalb Avenue, a nine-story, two-building affordable housing complex in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Designed by Aufgang Architects and co-developed by Camber Property Group and RiseBoro Community Partnership, the 89-foot-tall development spans approximately 125,000 square feet and yields 127 rental units in studio to three-bedroom layouts, all reserved for affordable housing. The project also includes 4,000 square feet of communal recreational space, on-site social service offices, bicycle storage, and a shared landscaped courtyard. The property is located between Wyckoff and Irving Avenues with frontage on both DeKalb Avenue and Hart Street.
Photograph of 1601 DeKalb Avenue. Credit: Camber Property Group.
The opening marks the end of construction roughly two and a half years after groundbreaking, and a little over a year since our last update in September 2025, when the affordable housing lottery launched for 81 of the building’s units. The two nine-story towers display stepped massing mirrored across the pair, with the main entrance set beneath a canopy at the center of the DeKalb Avenue frontage. The fully electric building incorporates high-efficiency heating and cooling systems with passive house principles and complies with Enterprise Green Communities criteria.
Photograph of 1601 DeKalb Avenue. Credit: Camber Property Group.
Residences are divided among 33 studios, 52 one-bedrooms, 24 two-bedrooms, and 18 three-bedrooms. Amenities include 24-hour security, community and recreation rooms, and common-area Wi-Fi. Forty-five units are reserved as supportive housing for formerly homeless young adult families with children and pregnant women aged 18 to 25, with free on-site services from an eight-person RiseBoro team.
Photograph of 1601 DeKalb Avenue. Credit: Camber Property Group.
The development replaced a parking lot on land formerly zoned for manufacturing, rezoned for residential use in 2018 under an application by 1601 DeKalb Avenue Owner LLC.
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