Applications open for affordable housing at Halletts Point

Applications began at midnight for 81 affordable housing units at Halletts Point. The deadline is May 7. 

10 Halletts Point, the first of seven buildings underway at the area by Durst Corporation, is set to begin leasing this summer. Altogether, the multi-development will have 2,000 apartments, 400 or 20 percent of which will be affordable. 

A few notes: 

• Councilmen JVB and Costas Constantinides were part of “#TeamCrowley” Tuesday.
• Participatory budgeting in Astoria begins on April 7. 
• A warehouse site at 10-35 31st Drive by Socrates Sculpture Park and East River Tower was bought for $8.2 mil and could be used for up to 33,892 square feet of residential development.
• A city effort to prevent “blocking the box” involves stepped up enforcement at key intersections including Astoria Boulevard and 31st Street and 21st Street & 49th Avenue.
• This interesting gray thing with wood is coming to LIC (H/T Court Square Blog)
• LIC Reading series is next Tuesday  with Jared Harél, Morgan Jenkins and Rachel Lyon 3/13
• Hunters Point gets more LinkNYC kiosks.