An affordable housing lottery has opened for 240 units in three buildings that are part of the second phase of East New York’s Livonia Commons complex.

In its five-year capital budget proposed on Wednesday, the MTA agreed to fund a long-awaited connection between the Livonia Avenue – Junius Street L and 3 lines in Brownsville.

The request is the first phase in what the department has dubbed the Livonia Avenue Initiative, a plan to revamp the strip. “This retail corridor has been defunct for a long time,” said ...

The proposed planning study would measure the feasibility to transform vacant lots along 98th Street from East New York to Livonia avenues, and from Livonia Avenue east to Van Sinderen Avenue.