Applications are now available for apartments at 490 Myrtle Avenue between Hall and Ryerson, the new 93-unit building where Key Food (name change for the former Associated Supermarket) and TD Bank will be.

20% of the apartments are being marketed as affordable.  Applicants must meet eligibility guidelines. The available apartments are broken down in the following way: 7 two bedrooms ($1064/mo); 7 one bedrooms ($877/mo); and 5 studios ($816/mo).

Amenities listed include: a fitness center, reflecting pools with cabanas, a quiet terrace, dog run, bike storage, a vegetable garden, barbeque and dining area and on an premises coin-operated laundry room.

Click here for more information and applications at NYC Housing Connect.

Please note that the Myrtle Avenue Brooklyn Partnership is NOT affiliated with this building and is NOT involved in the affordable housing application process.  Please do NOT contact the Partnership office for information regarding housing applications.  For all inquiries, please visit www.nyc.gov/housingconnect or call 3-1-1.

Key Food expects to return to the building within the next several weeks and TD Bank should be in a few months after still.

A second building at 504 Myrtle will be erected directly to the east of 490 Myrtle Avenue at the site where the Pratt Station Post Office used to stand.  Plans for 504 Myrtle Avenue reveal that it will be six-stories, with 141 housing units and commercial on the ground floor.

Together, the two buildings, 490 Myrtle and 504 Myrtle, will contain 35,000 square feet of ground-floor commercial space.