Applications were submitted to the Department of Buildings yesterday to construct a total of 24 new apartments at 335-341 Nostrand Avenue, in the Bed-Stuy section of central Brooklyn.
Briarwood-based Guy Iber is the developer, and Issac & Stern is the architect (they’re also working together on 627 DeKalb Avenue, half a dozen blocks to the north).
The units would be broken up into four separate buildings, replacing a row of three-story brick walk-ups on the eastern side of Nostrand, between Quincy and Gates avenues. Each structure would sit on a 20-foot-wide lot, rising five stories and 54 feet. Each would contain six apartments spread over a bit more than 4,200 square feet of residential space (for an average unit size of 740 square feet, suggesting rentals), with 1,300 square feet of ground-floor commercial space, likely retail.
The project was greatly facilitated by the fact that the four buildings – both new and old – are separate structures. The fact that each existing building has only two apartments means that they are not subject to rent stabilization (which they would be if it were a large eight-unit building).
Similarly, breaking the new development into four separate structures means that the developer does not have to build a 12-unit parking garage, as would be required if the 24 new apartments were in one building. While duplicating mechanicals and common space for four separate buildings will drive up costs, it was apparently seen as preferable to integrating parking.
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