a drawing of the proposed housingThe City Planning Department certified the proposed Culver Estates housing project on 37th Street between 12th and 14th avenues on Monday. A six-month public review process will now take place, after which the city must approve the plan.
Culver Estates would include seventeen buildings with four condos each, and each unit would have four or five bedrooms. The housing is intended for moderate-income families (those earning 100% of the area median income or below).
The land, last used as a right-of-way for the Culver El, a discontinued elevated railway, is owned by the city and will be sold to Southern Brooklyn Community Organization (SBCO), a not-for-profit organization that develops and provides affordable housing in Borough Park and Kensington.