Two connected seven-story buildings with apartments and community facilities are coming to 630 and 632 East New York Avenue in East Flatbush, according to plans filed with the Department of Buildings yesterday.
Jamaica-based Francis Lewis House Corporation has filed applications to expand the single-story, 20-foot-wide rowhouse at 588 Schenectady Avenue, in northern East Flatbush, into a four-story, eight-unit residential building. Located right across from the Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center, the expanded building will measure 4,792 square feet in total, which means units will average a rental-sized 600 square feet each. Bakhtiar Shamloo’s Kew Gardens-based Tabriz Group Design is the applicant of record.
The city isn’t planning to extend the subway down Utica Avenue in Flatbush anytime soon, but if we see more projects like 824 East New York Avenue, the administration might need to give it serious thought.
Crown Heights-based Crow Hill Development has filed applications for a six-story, 10-unit residential building at 3311 Newkirk Avenue, in southern East Flatbush, four blocks east of the 2 and 5 trains’ stop at Newkirk Avenue. The building will measure 10,294 square feet in total, which means units will average a relatively spacious 1,030 square feet each. The Dumbo-based architecture firm Formactiv is designing, and an existing two-story house must first be demolished.
Brooklyn-based ANM Real Estate has filed applications for a four-story, 10-unit residential building at 514 Maple Street, in northern East Flatbush, five blocks from the 2 and 5 trains’ stop at Sterling Street. The building will measure a total 7,829 square feet, and units will average 782 square feet apiece; the two fourth-floor apartments will also share the fifth-floor penthouse. Leonid Segal’s Borough Park-based Tecnico Engineering is the applicant of record, and the site’s two-story predecessor was demolished in 2000’s.
