An anonymous Chinatown-based LLC has filed applications for a four-story, five-unit residential building at 217 Bay 49th Street, in southern Gravesend. The project will measure 4,800 square feet and its residential units should average 852 square feet apiece. It’s unclear whether the units will be rentals or condominiums. Harry H. Hong’s Chinatown-based H2 Consulting is the applicant of record. The 20-foot-wide, 2,000-square-foot lot is currently occupied by a single-story house. Demolition permits were filed in August. The Bay 50th Street stop on the D train is located three blocks away.
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1-story houses like the green house in the photo are over 100 years old, note how it’s partially below grade. Another bit of old Brooklyn fades away. That corner of Bath Beach still contains many old homes like that one.
Don’t worry..if it’s unclear by type of the building, but there is equally good to make a four-story.
Poor little house nobody to love it so bye bye it goes onto the ash dump. Sad. We must destroy things like this to get it bigger and bigger. Twenty years from now what’s standing there will again be destroyed most probably get torn down again.
True. The little house is over 100 years old. You can tell by the odd first floor door below ground level that the house was built before the streets were graded. The neighborhood developed along the route of the nearby Brooklyn, Bath & West End Railroad which ran at ground level parallel to Harway Avenue until about 1915 when it was replaced with the current ‘N’ train open cut. Many Italian-Americans bought those little homes in the 1920s.