States's Largest Supportive Housing Complex Opens In Brownsville

BROWNSVILLE, BROOKLYN — The largest supportive housing complex in New York State will open its doors in Brownsville Thursday, officials said.

Stone House — a new $80 million building at 91 Junius St. — will bring 64 low-income and 96 supportive-housing apartments into the neighborhood, according to to Win, the nonprofit that sponsored it.

The low-income apartments were doled out through the city’s affordable housing lottery which hit the market in August. Studios cost $670-per-month, one-bedrooms cost $882-per-month, two-bedrooms cost $1,065-per-month and three-bedrooms cost $1,224-per-month.

The building was designed by the Urban Architectural Initiative and comes from the nonprofit Win, the largest provider of shelter for homeless families in New York City, according to the agency's website.

The facility – which is named after former Win president Bonnie Stone – will offer job training, case management, counseling and more to its residents, according to Win.

Stone House is the result of a partnership between the nonprofit and city agencies — such as the Department of Housing Preservation & Development and the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene — and corporate backers such as Bank of America Merrill Lynch and the Google Community Foundation.

A ribbon cutting ceremony will be held Thursday morning on Junius Street between Liberty and Glenmore avenues.

Photo courtesy of GoogleMaps/Oct. 2016