No, the B12/B13 towers won't contain affordable units (or any) larger than 2-BR. Again, the original pledge gets bypassed.

Accompanying 25 (!) rhapsodic photos of ongoing construction of the B12/B13 sites (615 Dean St./595 Dean St.), which have topped out, New York YIMBY on 2/6/22 told us something unsurprising but noteworthy:

Designed by Handel Architects and developed by TF Cornerstone, the complex will yield a total of 798 units between the 22-story West Tower and 27-story East Tower. Residences will come in studio, studio alcove, one-bedroom, and two-bedroom layouts, with 240 homes slated for affordable housing.

(Emphasis added)

In other words, as with the other two buildings that recently opened, B4 (18 Sixth Ave., aka Brooklyn Crossing) and B15 (662 Pacific St., aka Plank Road), these towers will include no units larger than two bedrooms.

So these towers as well won't fulfill the non-binding pledge, in the project's 2005 Affordable Housing Memorandum of Understanding (which was incorporated into the Community Benefits Agreement), that half the affordable space, in floor area, would be devoted to family-sized units.

(The B2 tower, 461 Dean, had no three-bedroom units, but B14, 535 Carlton, and B3, 38 Sixth, did so.)

Affordability levels

YIMBY of course didn't ask about affordability levels, and the developers have been close-mouthed, but I'd bet that, as with the other two buildings, which similarly take advantage of the Affordable New York tax break, these two will limit the income-restricted units to middle-income households earning 130% of Area Median Income. That means six-figure earners, in the most part.

After all, if they were choosing a far less popular configuration of the tax break that delivers deeper affordability, they'd surely make it known, and get the kudos.