Housing News

Schermerhorn House Accepting Applications

Please note that Schermerhorn House, the Common Ground studio apartment residence in Brooklyn Heights, is accepting applications. (The units are small--266 sq.ft.) Here is information about it:

ELIGIBILITY
Eligibility is based on the Federal Low Income Housing Tax Credit guidelines.

The rent, household size, studio size and income distribution for these apartments is as follows:

Apartments Available: 100
Apartment Size: Studio (266 sq. ft)
Household Size: 1
Monthly Rent*: $635
Total Annual Income Range**: $21,770 - $32,280

* Includes Heat & Electric

475 Kent - An Interview with Connie Crothers

Friday, May 30, 2008

Lorenzo Sanguedolce: You have your piano now, and you have almost all your sound equipment set up... so, is it life and work back to normal here?

Connie Crothers: No, and I think that is not the case for people in the building in general. It was quite a dislocation - we were out of this space for three-and-a-half months, which, when you live and work in the same place, is a dislocation. So, though we all might have anticipated that we'd get it all back together in a day or two,

475 Kent Lives

475 Kent St 2On a freezing cold Sunday night, January 20th, about two hundred of us, all of us artists, some of us with children, were standing out on the sidewalk in front of the building in shock, wondering what was going on. Police cars cordoned off the block; fire trucks lined the block on both sides of the street. 475 Kent Avenue was filled with policemen and firemen.

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