Construction is wrapping up on 270 Nostrand Avenue, an 11-story residential building in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Designed by S. Weider Architect PC and developed by Allure Group, the 125-foot-tall structure spans 331,636 square feet and yields 320 market-rate rental units in studio to two-bedroom layouts, with an average scope of 1,020 square feet. The development also features 5,341 square feet of commercial space, a cellar level, and 214 enclosed parking spaces. NNRC Properties is the owner of the property, which spans the full block between DeKalb Avenue and Kosciuszko Street.
The reinforced concrete superstructure stands fully enclosed in its red and bluish-gray brick façade. The fenestration is composed of a grid of punched windows and glass doors for the numerous balconies on the northern, southern, and eastern elevations. The western lot line wall is left mostly blank with only a handful of windows.
Stickers remain on many of the windows, and plastic barricades still block off the sidewalks while some finishing touches wrap up on the ground floor.
Photo by Michael Young.
Photo by Michael Young.
Photo by Michael Young.
Photo by Michael Young.
Photo by Michael Young.
Photo by Michael Young.
Photo by Michael Young.
The balconies are lined with tall decorative metal railings, providing space for sukkahs for the neighborhood’s growing Jewish population.
Photo by Michael Young.
Photo by Michael Young.
Photo by Michael Young.
Photo by Michael Young.
Photo by Michael Young.
Photo by Michael Young.
Photo by Michael Young.
An abutting 13-story volume stands on the southwestern corner of the block along Kosciuszko Street. Although permits list this as a separate building, the structure contains 110 rental units, or roughly one-third of the 320 total units in the development. The exterior features a contrasting mix of off-white, charcoal, and blue-gray paneling with an alternating patten of horizontal and vertical scoring. The first two stories utilize the same gray masonry featured in the main volume.
Photo by Michael Young.
Photo by Michael Young.
Photo by Michael Young.
Photo by Michael Young.
Photo by Michael Young.
The developer purchased the property from CABS Nursing Home Company in 2015 for $15.6 million. The property was formerly occupied by a sprawling brick nursing home complex, seen in the below Google Street View image from before its demolition, and was rezoned for residential use in 2021. Construction topped out last summer on the new structure.
270 Nostrand Avenue in 2017. Image: Google
The building is set to contain between 80 to 96 affordable housing units, though the exact total has yet to be officially confirmed.
The development is located one block north of the G train at the Bedford-Nostrand Avenues station.
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Those strap-on balconies with their crude undersides ruins the whole thing.
Look up on a nice day, nobody uses balconies except to store junk.
That’s actually quite a huge structure!
At least that departed nursing home had a bit of style..
I believe if rented to the correct tenants it will be an added attraction to the neighborhood. And by the way not everyone uses their balconies or terraces for storage. Seniors like me love them to just enjoy the privacy.
The correct tenants? Oy.
I feel the same
And exactly who would you consider the correct tenant
That’s interesting how you put that statement; the correct tenants means what exactly?
Ppl are funnyyy…it’s 2025, this is sad.
I’ll be blunt Yvette, saying “correct tenants” make you sound either classist, racist, or elitist, or all of the above…
I would love to be able to afford one of those apartments I would jump on It my balcony would be garden paradise
In ten years those balcony decks will be spalling.
Not to mention the flimsy anchoring of the railings, which will need reinforcement – I’m seeing it happening on quite a few buildings,
As some who had grown up on Kblock it’s sad to see what they are turning our neighborhood into. Sad to say this is a building that will house people who most likely look nothing like the people the Use to surround this neighborhood. This is just another step of gentrification.