Permits have been filed for a six-story residential building at 990 Franklin Avenue in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Located between Sullivan Place and Montgomery Street, the interior lot is near the Prospect Park subway station, serviced by the B, Q and shuttle trains. Ian Bruce Eichner of Continuum Company under the Franklin Avenue Property Owner LLC is listed as the owner behind the applications.
The Department of City Planning has officially launched the requisite public review process for 960 Franklin Avenue, a contentious high-rise development in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. The proposal includes two 39-story buildings flanked by several additional volumes ranging from 16 to 20 stories.
Recent proposals to the New York City Department of City Planning could facilitate the construction of a 1.4 million square foot, mixed-use project in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. If approved, the massive plan could yield one of the community’s largest-ever developments.
With the soon-to-be 777-foot-tall 45 East 22nd Street now climbing quickly into the Flatiron District’s skyline, YIMBY sat down with developer Bruce Eichner to discuss the building’s progress, the surrounding neighborhood’s rapid evolution, as well as what else might be on the horizon for Continuum. YIMBY in bold.
East Harlem is awash in tall buildings, but they come mostly in the form of postwar public housing projects – home to a small city’s worth of New Yorkers, but ultimately not the prettiest structures…
