EAST HARLEM, NY — East Harlem has 53 apartments with rents starting at $1,013 up for grabs as part of a new local housing lottery on Housing Connect.

The apartment building, located at 205 East 110 St., near Third Avenue, includes a sauna, a roof deck, an outdoor pool, a fitness center, a co-working space and a billiards room, according to the Housing Connect listing.

But wait — what is Housing Connect?

For the uninitiated, New York City Housing Connect is an online platform that lists residential buildings across the five boroughs currently accepting applications for apartments, with both leasing and purchasing opportunities.

The website, which launched in 2013, aims to provide New Yorkers with opportunities for affordable prices on apartments in new developments.

However, there is a catch: Your total income and family size need to fit within a certain range to be eligible to apply to the housing lottery, and each lottery has different income restrictions, based on a measurement called Area Median Income, which you can calculate here.

The building, called Forte Living, is renting 13 one-bedroom apartments at $1,013 for people who make between $41,589 and $45,360 annually.

Eight apartments with two bedrooms are available for $1,169 monthly on Housing Connect, for families of at least two people with an annual income between $50,092 and $51,840.

There are also 10 apartments with one bedroom that are renting for $1,595 for single adults or families of up to three people who make between $61,543 and $87,480 annually.

There’s usually a certain number of units in each lottery set aside for people with disabilities, workers employed by the city, or people already based in the community board district where the building is located.

At Forte Living, 5 percent of the units are set aside for people with mobility disabilities, and 2 percent of the units are set aside for people with vision or hearing disabilities. Also, 20 percent of the available units are set aside for people who live in the nearby districts of Community Board 1 and Community Board 11. Another 10 percent of the units will give preference to applications from city employees and veterans.

Once users apply for an eligible unit, they are issued a log number, and then the numbers are chosen at random by an automated system, lottery-style.

To see all of the apartments in the lottery or apply, click here.

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