Permits have been filed for a five-story residential building at 1248 50th Street in Borough Park, Brooklyn. Located between New Utrecht Avenue and 13th Avenue, the lot is near the 50th Street subway station, served by the D train. Moshe Wosner under the 1128BSD LLC is listed as the owner behind the applications.
The proposed 53-foot-tall development will yield 8,637 square feet designated for residential space. The building will have five residences, most likely condos based on the average unit scope of 1,727 square feet. The steel-based structure will also have a cellar and penthouse.
Mohamed Mahmoud of MSM Engineering Services, PLLC is listed as the architect of record.
Demolition permits have not been filed yet. An estimated completion date has not been announced.
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It seems hardly worth it.
Why Is Everyone So Anxious to Tear Down All Single Family Homes?
Wasn’t The American Dream to Own your Own Home?
Now the American Dream is to Rent Your Own Apartment!
More and more people don’t want to own a car and live in the suburbs but instead want to live in walkable urban areas where their favorite bars, restaurants, cafes, grocery store, etc. are within walking distance or accessible to them by public transportation. They also don’t want to take on the negative costs of home ownership like property taxes, fixing broken appliances, etc.
With so many people moving to cities, single family detached homes are becoming increasingly incompatible with the desired way of life of these new residents. Keeping these areas exclusive to single-family-only zoning inflates prices and makes homeownership less attainable for younger and lower-income people. That’s the opposite of the American Dream. When a neighborhood can only ever have X units and demand keeps growing to live there then prices will only keep going up. So in response homes need to be built for these people somewhere. If you want more people to be able to own (or even afford) a home, restricting supply in desirable areas works against that goal. Allowing more housing types doesn’t eliminate the single-family home, it just stops legally prohibiting everything else.
And for people who want to live in single family only neighborhoods, there are tons of those all over the U.S. There are much fewer truly dense urban areas to live for all of the people who want to do so. The only solution is to expand those urban areas to accommodate those folks.
Excellent
Should be twice as tall
If all of New York is built up the way you want, there will be 40 million living here and gridlock of everything.
We do not want Tokyo in New York. This building is ruining a beautiful block.
BTW, the large apartments are for the Hasidim with 1O children per family.
We literally have no other option. The only way we could encase this city in resin and not change it is if the population of NYC was completely stagnant or decreasing. It is not, and more and more people want to move here every year. There is only so much land to build in NYC. As a result, to fit more people in less land, you have to build upwards. If you don’t like living in a growing city, there are ample homes in the suburbs that offer you the single family detached home lifestyle that you love so much.
The only alternative if you want to keep your single family detached character of your neighborhood is to encourage your neighbors to build ADUs or convert old 3-story single family homes into pseudo-apartment buildings like all of brownstone Brooklyn has. It maintains the character of the neighborhood while adding more housing stock.
The oldest, close-in postwar suburbs are prime for redevelopment. Whole blocks within walking distance to trains would be rezoned for 4-6 units per lot depending on its size. Let the natural market decide what happens. As boomers die, their kids will just want to sell the old house and developers can suddenly can increase housing supply. Edmonton has done something like this and there was pushback so we would need a state mandate. California is doing this in nimby communities. There are remedies.