East Flatbush is quickly becoming a hotbed for small developers looking for relatively cheap land and generous zoning. Two houses there, across from SUNY Downstate Medical Center, may bite the dust for a seven-story mixed-use building.
Property owner Jack Schwartz has filed applications for a four-story, four-unit residential building at 1430 55th Street, in Borough Park, two blocks from the 55th Street subway stop on the D line. The building will measure 6,845 square feet, which means the full-floor units will probably be condominiums, averaging a spacious 1,710 square feet. Ruslan Goychayev’s RSLN Architecture is the applicant of record, and an existing 2.5-story house must first be demolished.
Property owner Jack Schwartz has filed applications for two four-story, four-unit residential buildings spanning the vacant lots 1520-1522 48th Street, in central Borough Park. AA Buildings & Inspection Services, the concrete contractor, is the architect of record, and in 2009, a three-story residential structure was demolished.