Ridge Street Apartments Secures Financing At 145 Broome Street on Manhattan’s Lower East Side

Developers have secured financing for The Ridge Street Apartments, a 16-story affordable senior housing building at 145 Broome Street on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Designed by Handel Architects and developed by Grand Street Guild, Catholic Homes of New York, and the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), the structure will yield 190 100-percent affordable units in studio, one-, and two-bedroom layouts. The bulk of the homes will be available for seniors aged 62 and older earning up to 50 percent of the area median income, with 30 percent reserved for formerly homeless seniors aged 55 and older. The property is located between Ridge and Attorney Streets.

The affordable housing lottery has launched for 94-15 Sutphin Boulevard, a 24-story mixed-use building in Jamaica, Queens. Designed by JFA Architects & Engineers and developed by Joel Weiss of Heartfelt Townhouse Build, the structure yields 524 residences. Available on NYC Housing Connect are 90 units for residents at 80 percent of the area median income (AMI), ranging in eligible income from $75,669 to $160,720.

Permits have been filed for a ten-story mixed-use building at 1935 Bedford Avenue in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn. Located between Fenimore Street and Hawthorne Street, the lot is near the Parkside Avenue subway station, served by the Q train. Izchak Naftalin is listed as the owner behind the applications.

Next time you’re working with a part-time agent, Jonathan Pressman writes, give them a chance to show you what they bring to the table before you jump to conclusions.

With interactive maps and charts, Inman’s data team sheds light on the most salient trends in your market — and hundreds of others.

Radical personalization is the real differentiator that turns a transaction into a story and a client into an advocate, The Agency’s Mauricio Umansky writes.

Dezireh Eyn, CEO of Platinum Properties in New York City, writes that independent brokerages understand their people, their markets and the relationships that make real estate run.

The city is emerging from the shadow of Palm Beach, just across the water, with new condo and office towers.

Find out what it would look like to fully celebrate the wildly personal beauty of your garden “dialed to the max.”

The 19th-century building, in a historic district in Fort Greene, has 12 condos, starting at $1.195 million, each with touches from the site’s former use.