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8 TIMESLEDGER, APRIL 21, 2019 TIMESLEDGER.COM LIC mourns its unoffi cial ‘mayor,’ Frank Carrado Affordable Housing for Rent 123 Hope Street Apartments 41 NEWLY CONSTRUCTED UNITS AT 123 HOPE STREET, BROOKLYN, NY 11211 Williamsburg Amenities: Fitness center, community facilities, roof deck, package room, bike room, parking* (*additional fee applies) Transit: Trains: G; Buses: B24, B48, B60, Q54, Q59 No application fee • No brokers fee • Smoke-free building This building is being constructed through the Inclusionary Housing Program and is anticipated to receive a Tax Exemption through the 421-a Tax Incentive Program of the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development. Who Should Apply? Individuals or households who meet the income and household size requirements listed in the table below may apply. Qualified applicants will be required to meet additional selection criteria. Applicants who live in New York City receive a general preference for apartments. A percentage of units are set aside for: Mobility-disabled applicants (5%) Vision- or hearing-disabled applicants (2%) Preference for a percentage of units goes to: Residents of Brooklyn Community Board 1 (50%) Municipal employees (5%) AVAILABLE UNITS AND INCOME REQUIREMENTS 1 Rent Includes cooking gas; does not include electricity. 2 Household size includes everyone who will live with you, including parents and children. Subject to occupancy criteria. 3 Household earnings includes salary, hourly wages, tips, Social Security, child support, and other income. Income guidelines subject to change. 4 Minimum income listed may not apply to applicants with Section 8 or other qualifying rental subsidies. Asset limits also apply. How Do You Apply? Apply online or through mail. To apply online, please go to nyc.gov/housingconnect. To request an application by mail, send a selfaddressed envelope to: Fifth Avenue Committee - 621 Degraw Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217. Only send one application per development. Do not submit duplicate applications. Do not apply online and also send in a paper application. Applicants who submit more than one application may be disqualified. When is the Deadline? Applications must be postmarked or submitted online no later than May 6, 2019. Late applications will not be considered. What Happens After You Submit an Application? After the deadline, applications are selected for review through a lottery process. If yours is selected and you appear to qualify, you will be invited to an appointment of eligibility to continue the process of determining your eligibility. Appointments are usually scheduled from 2 to 10 months after the application deadline. You will be asked to bring documents that verify your household size, identity of members of your household, and your household income. Español Presente una solicitud en línea en nyc.gov/housingconnect. Para recibir una traducción de español de este anuncio y la solicitud impresa, envíe un sobre con la dirección a Fifth Avenue Committee - 621 Degraw Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217En el reverso del sobre, escriba en inglés la palabra “SPANISH.” Las solicitudes se deben enviar en línea o con sello postal antes de 6 de mayo 2019. �� nyc.gov/housingconnect�� Fifth Avenue Committee - 621 Degraw Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217��CHINESE�� , : nyc.gov/housingconnect. Fifth Avenue Committee - 621 Degraw Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217 “RUSSIAN” . ( ) 6 2019. �� nyc.gov/housingconnect�� Fifth Avenue Committee - 621 Degraw Street, Brooklyn, NY 1121 �� Kreyòl Ayisyien Aplike sou entènèt sou sitwèb nyc.gov/housingconnect. Pou resevwa yon tradiksyon anons sa a nan lang Kreyòl Ayisyen ak aplikasyon an sou papye, voye anvlòp ki gen adrès pou retounen li nan: Fifth Avenue Committee - 621 Degraw Street, Brooklyn, NY 11217 Nan dèyè anvlòp la, ekri mo “HATIAN CREOLE” an Anglè. Ou dwe remèt aplikasyon yo sou entènèt oswa ou dwe tenbre yo anvan dat me 6, 2019. $%&'()"*+,+- ./ 0&123nyc.gov/housingconnect"# ! # 7 0./ #)$% 89-03 Fifth Avenue Committee - 621 Degraw Street, Brooklyn, NY 112174566'&2 .2019 6& 9 /-9( / *+/&/'50 ."ARABIC" Mayor Bill de Blasio ! HPD Commissioner Maria Torres-Springer Unit Size 80% Area Median Income Level (AMI) Unit Monthly Rent1 Units Available Household Size2 Annual Household Income3 Minimum – Maximum4 100% Area Median Income Level (AMI) Unit Monthly Rent1 Units Available Household Size2 Annual Household Income3 Minimum – Maximum4 Studio $1,231 9 �� 1 person $44,160 - $58,480 $1,772 6 �� 1 person $60,755 - $73,100 2 people $44,160 - $66,800 2 people $60,755 - 83,500 1 bedroom $1,320 12 �� 1 person $47,280 - $58,480 120% Area Median Income Level (AMI) Unit $2,292 8 �� 1 person $78,583 - $87,720 2 people $47,280 - $66,800 2 people $78,583 - $100,200 3 people $47,280 - $75,120 3 people $78,583 - $112,680 2 bedroom $1,591 4 �� 2 people $56,606 - $66,800 $2,759 2 �� 2 people $94,595 - $100,200 3 people $56,606 - $75,120 3 people $94,595 - $112,680 4 people $56,606 - $83,440 4 people $94,595 - $125,160 5 people $56,606 - $90,160 5 people $94,595 - $135,240 BY BILL PARRY Long Island City bid farewell to its unofficial mayor on April 16 as hundreds attended a Mass of Christian Burial at St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church on Vernon Boulevard. Frank Carrado was a beloved link to the past of what is now the fastestgrowing neighborhood in the country prior to his death last week following complications from a stroke. He was 89. Before there were towering luxury apartment buildings along the waterfront along the East River, Long Island City was the gritty soot covered industrial center of Queens where Carrado grew up and lived his entire life. He watched the neighborhood change over the decade through the viewfinder of his camera and his photography hangs in building lobbies, bars and restaurants around the neighborhood. “I go so far back in this town that I remember there used to be a community bathhouse,” Carrado said in a 2014 interview. “It used to be right next to the Fire Department on 47th Road. Nobody had their own showers back then.” The “mayor of LIC” recalled a time when he was a young boy back in the 1930s and 1940s when factory smoke stacks belched out so much soot it would cover the entire neighborhood. “It would be everywhere, on the cars, the buildings; you could not even hang out your laundry on the clothes line because it would get all black,” Carrado wrote in a letter to QNS in 2011. “If you walked out of your house you would think you were walking on the moon as the soot would cover the sidewalks, too. That was really something to see.” Carrado saw much during his life in Long Island City and he loved to talk about his memories such as the East River being so polluted “you could walk on top of the g a rba ge .” As a 10- y e a r - o l d b o y , C a r r a d o and his b u d d i e s would wait down by the r a i l r o a d b e t w e e n V e r n o n Boulevard and Fifth Street like Spanky in the old Our Gang TV series. Frank Carrado “When a train would come in, my friends and I would climb up on the train and get a 50-pound bag of coal. We would carefully get down and carry the bag around to our neighbors’ houses,” he wrote. “Coal was very important because it was the way people would heat their houses back then. We would go around and sell the coal for 50 cents. That was a lot of money to us back then. We had a great business going.” Back then, the neighborhood was primarily Irish and Italian, Carrado recalled. “ E v e r y o n e intermarried. The Irish women didn’t like the Irish men’s drinking habits, so they married the Italians and the Italian women didn’t like the Italian men’s temperament, so they married the Irish,” he said. Corrado also remembered when Italian prisoners of war were held on the Brooklyn side of Newtown Creek during World War II. “They were harmless and were allowed to visit on weekends provided they wore an armband to identify themselves,” he said, adding that several of the prisoners stayed after the war and opened small businesses. Carrado watched as the Irish and the Italians began to age and die out to be replaced by a much younger demographic soon after 2000. “That’s when all the factories started coming down, the old Pepsi factory and Admi r a l TV, they all came d o w n and these high-ri s e apartment bu i ld i n g s t a r t e d going up,” C a r r a d o said. File photo Unlike many of the neighborhood’s elder gentry, Carrado enjoyed the company of the newcomers to Long Island City. He would even show them the ancient manhole covers in front of the 108th Precinct on 50th Avenue. “Today 80 percent on Long Island City are between the ages of 20 and 50 and it’s not just people,” he said. “Back in the ‘50s we had 10 dogs. Now there are thousands and they even have their own day care centers.” Carrado’s wife predeceased him, and he is survived by his daughter and three grandchildren. His interment was at Calvary Cemetery, not far from the neighborhood he loved his entire life. Reach reporter Bill Parry by email at bparry@schnepsmedia. com or by phone at (718) 260–4538. /housingconnect /housingconnect /housingconnect /TIMESLEDGER.COM /housingconnect /housingconnect link