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1693 Flatbush Avenue

Three-Story Mixed-Use Commercial Project Planned At 1693 Flatbush Avenue, Flatlands

1:00 pm on November 18, 2015 By Reid Wilson

Property owner Avraham Tarshish has filed applications for a three-story, 8,600 square-foot mixed-use commercial building at 1693 Flatbush Avenue, in Flatlands, six blocks from the 2 and 5 trains’ stop at Flatbush Avenue/Brooklyn College. The project will have 4,131 square feet of retail space on the ground and second floors, in addition to a 4,469 square-foot health care facility on the second and third floors. Richard Walsh’s Brooklyn-based Citiscape Consulting is the applicant of record.

Livonia Commons

Permits Filed: Phase 2 of Livonia Commons Affordable Housing, East New York

12:15 pm on November 18, 2015 By Rebecca Baird-Remba

New building applications have been filed for nearly 300 units of affordable housing on city-owned lots near where the elevated 3 and L trains intersect on Livonia Avenue in East New York. It turns out that these plans are Phase II of the city’s big Livonia Commons project, which will bring 791 deeply affordable units, retail and community space to a rather desolate stretch of the neighborhood.

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39 South Elliott Place

Four-Story, Two-Unit Residential Project Filed At 39 South Elliott Place, Fort Greene

11:00 am on November 18, 2015 By Reid Wilson

Ana Eskreis, head of Max Studio, has filed applications for a four-story, two-unit residential building at 39 South Elliott Place, in Fort Greene. That’s steps away from the G train’s Fulton Street stop and the C train’s Lafayette Avenue stop. The building will measure 2,472 square feet in total. Triplex units will span the cellar through second floors and a duplex will take up the upper two floors. The project is being designed in-house.

32 New York Avenue, image via Google Maps32 New York Avenue, image via Google Maps

Permits Filed: 32 New York Avenue, Bed-Stuy

7:00 am on November 18, 2015 By Rebecca Baird-Remba

The two short blocks between Atlantic Avenue and Fulton Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant were once considered undesirable for residential development, because they’re sandwiched between two bustling commercial thoroughfares and two noisy train lines—the elevated Long Island Railroad along Atlantic and the A and C subways rumbling just below Fulton Street. They were transitional, slightly industrial, and the victims of urban renewal schemes. But now developers priced out of the more desirable parts of Bed-Stuy and Crown Heights are looking here, and noticing the benefits of brownstone blocks so close to the train. One such builder filed plans for a five-story residential project at 32 New York Avenue, between Herkimer Street and Atlantic Avenue.

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2899 Nostrand Avenue

Four-Story, 20,420 Square-Foot Yeshiva Filed At 2899 Nostrand Avenue, Marine Park

6:00 am on November 18, 2015 By Reid Wilson

The Yeshiva of Yisrael has filed applications for a four-story, 20,420 square-foot building at 2899 Nostrand Avenue, in Marine Park, in southern Brooklyn. It will include a house of worship, offices, classrooms, study rooms and academic laboratories, according to the Schedule A. Brooklyn-based Ronald Cagan is the applicant of record, and it appears the Yeshiva’s existing building must first be demolished.

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