Article: Shelter: Studio in limited-profit co-op high-rise

LOCATION: Brooklyn Heights (Cadman Plaza) PRICE: $14,000 ($334 monthly carrying charges) SQUARE FEET: 550

OCCUPANT: Brett Littman (assistant director, UrbanGlass) This is our 10th interview. During the other nine you thought you lived in a Mitchell-Lama building but you do not. Now we have to have the interview all over again! It was when you went away to Istanbul to look at handblown glass that your building manager brought the truth to light. The Whitman Close co-op is regulated not by the Mitchell-Lama law passed in 1955 but by the Redevelopment Companies law pushed through in 1942 by Robert Moses, during his demolish-and-replace slum clearance period. Anyway, both programs, though ...

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