Real Estate
'Affordable' Bed-Stuy Studio Costs $1,700-A-Month
New Yorkers must earn between $58,286 and $ 135,590 to apply for a new batch of affordable Bed-Stuy apartments, city records show.
BEDFORD-STUYVESANT, BROOKLYN -- New "affordable" Bed-Stuy apartments go for $2,350-a-month and demand applicants earn up to $135,000 every year to apply.
Four new apartments at 238 Pulaski St. will be available until April 1 to applicants who meet specific income requirements, city records show.
The $1,700-a-month studio can only be rented by people earning between $58,286 and $95,030 per year and the $1,900-a-month one-bedroom can only go to households earning between $68,538 and $108,550 annually, the listing shows.
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Only households earning between $80,572 and $135,590 can apply for two-bedroom apartments that go for $2,350-a-month.
Owner Shlomo Karpen and architect Bahram Tehrani of BTE Design Services filed permits to build the six-story apartment building on Pulaski Street near Throop Avenue in December 2015, city records show.
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Karpen bought the Pulaski Street lot for $1.5 million the same month, city records show.
Amenities in the new Stuyvesant Heights building include a laundry room with machines residents must pay to use.
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