Brooklyn

1345 70th Street

Three-Story, Four-Unit Residential Project Planned At 1345 70th Street, Dyker Heights

An anonymous Brooklyn-based corporation has filed applications for a three-story, four-unit residential building at 1345 70th Street, in Dyker Heights. The project will measure 7,034 square feet and its residential units should average 1,339 square feet apiece, indicative of condominiums. There will also be four off-street parking spaces, two of which will be housed in a garage. Emmanuel J. Katerinis’s Lower Manhattan-based engineering firm is the applicant of record. The 40-foot-wide, 4,000-square-foot plot is occupied by a two-story house. Demolition permits have not been filed.



248 Duffield Street

121-Unit Partial Residential Conversion Underway At Eight-Story Commercial Building, 248 Duffield Street, Downtown Brooklyn

United American Land is currently converting the top five floors of the Offerman House, an eight-story commercial building and individual landmark at 248 Duffield Street in Downtown Brooklyn, into 121 residential units. The units will be rental apartments ranging from studios to three-bedrooms, the New York Times reported. The lower floors of the property are currently leased to retailers, including Nordstrom Rack and Old Navy. GreenbergFarrow is designing the conversion. Occupancy is expected in the spring of 2017.


LICH Redevelopment

Developer To Move Forward With As-Of-Right Plans At Long Island College Hospital Property, Cobble Hill

In 2015, Fortis Property Group laid out plans to redevelop the Long Island College Hospital property, located on several blocks in Cobble Hill. One proposal was for as-of-right development, while the other required an individual rezoning, approved through the city’s Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP). The developer has decided to move forward with the as-of-right plan, which will not include any affordable residential units, Politico reported.


776 Decatur Street, image via Google Maps

Permits Filed For Five-Story, 10-Unit Apartment Building At 766 Decatur Street, Bedford-Stuyvesant

Vacant lots along Broadway, on the border between Bushwick and Bedford-Stuyvesant, serve as a reminder of when both neighborhoods were victims of neglect and abandonment. But they are quickly disappearing. Plans were filed over the weekend for a five-story apartment building at 766 Decatur Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant, between Broadway and Thomas S. Boyland Street. New building applications call for 10 apartments and 5,500 square feet of residential space, for tiny apartments averaging 550 square feet apiece. Each floor would have two apartments, and the top floor would host a pair of duplex penthouses.

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