Housing lottery opens at Greybarn Patchogue, rents start at $1,655

Greybarn Patchogue has opened a housing lottery for 14 affordable rental units at 303 E. Main Street in Patchogue, with monthly rents starting at $1,655. A separate one-bedroom unit is set aside for a veteran, putting a tight and highly specific option into one of East Patchogue’s newest apartment buildings.

The application window runs from 9 a.m. May 22, 2026, through 5 p.m. June 22, 2026. Under the Long Island Housing Partnership’s rules, the lottery does not hand out apartments on a first-come basis. It establishes the order in which applicants will be reviewed for eligibility, which means households still have to clear the program’s income and household requirements before they can secure a unit.

The project sits in a 91-unit building that the owner, R Squared Patchogue LLC, developed with the Town of Brookhaven and Suffolk County involved in the program. Brookhaven said eight apartments at Greybarn Patchogue were designated as affordable housing through incentives from the Brookhaven Industrial Development Agency, part of the town’s effort to push more housing into downtown Patchogue and the surrounding south-shore corridor.

The building rose on the former Mediterranean Manor catering hall site and other small-business properties, a redevelopment Brookhaven described as a $46.7 million project. Local planning has treated Greybarn as part of the broader East Patchogue revival, and one report said it is one of three new apartment complexes using the East Patchogue overlay district since it was created in 2020.

Even with rents starting at $1,655, the lottery shows how limited the path remains for renters who want newer construction in Suffolk County without paying full market rates. The separate veterans unit adds another narrow opening, but the number of available apartments is still small compared with the demand that follows any regulated listing in Patchogue. For households that meet the income rules, the lottery offers one of the few chances to get into a modern apartment on Main Street.