Construction is rising on Kay’s Place, an 11-story mixed-use building at 487 4th Avenue in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Designed by Aufgang Architects and developed and built by Procida Companies under the 487 4th Avenue Managers LLC, the 107-foot-tall structure will span 49,308 square feet and yield 44 affordable rental units with an average scope of 864 square feet, as well as 2,154 square feet of ground-floor commercial space, a cellar level, and one enclosed parking space. Ten of the units will be one-bedroom apartments for residents with developmental disabilities, and a portion of the remainder will be reserved for the formerly homeless. The property is located at the corner of 4th Avenue and 12th Street.
Recent photographs show the reinforced concrete superstructure surpassing the halfway mark among the surrounding low-rise neighborhood. A dense network of metal shoring, wooden fencing, and orange netting cover the completed portions of the structure, and rebar protrudes from the top in preparation for the forthcoming columns. Construction broke ground in early October 2023, and YIMBY predicts the building will top out sometime near the end of fall.
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 building is rising on a formerly vacant lot, seen in the below Google Street View image from before the start of excavation.
487 4th Avenue in Park Slope, Brooklyn via Google Maps
The main rendering shows 487 4th Avenue clad in a mix of light and dark gray brick and a grid of floor-to-ceiling windows. The ground floor is enclosed in more expansive glass for the retail frontage at the northern corner, and the main entrance appears to be positioned at the eastern end of the 12th Street elevation next to the garage entrance. The building culminates in a flat parapet lined with metal railings, suggesting the presence of a roof deck.
The project is named in honor of Sister Catherine “Kay” Crumlish, the former executive director of the local non-profit Mercy Home, who sought to build housing on the site for several decades before her death in 2020. Funding was acquired in a collaboration with Mercy Home between the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) and the state Office for People With Developmental Disabilities.
The nearest subways from the property are the F, G, and R trains at the 4th Avenue-9th Street station to the south.
487 4th Avenue’s anticipated completion date is slated for July 2025, as noted on site.
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Commendable! In this effort is continuing to be completed: Thanks to Michael Young.
I’m surprised they are building this for people with mental problems in parkslope, a pretty good neighborhood, but they don’t build truly affordable housing in parkslope for those without mental problems, hmm, that’s odd