Gravesend

Three-Story, Two-Unit Residential Project Planned At 2372 Boynton Place, Gravesend

2:00 pm on March 16, 2016 By Reid Wilson

Property owner Leon Chang has filed applications for a three-story, two-unit residential building at 2372 Boynton Place, in southern Gravesend, located a block from the Avenue X stop on the F train. The new building will encompass 4,500 square feet and will boast 3,873 square feet of residential space. One apartment will span the ground floor and the second will take up the second and third floors. If residential space is divided as such, the ground floor unit will measure 1,290 square feet and the second unit will measure a spacious 2,583 square feet. Jung Wor Chin Architect is the architect of record. The 25-foot-wide lot is currently occupied by a two-story, single-family, wood-framed structure. Demolition permits have already be filed to raze it.

168 Avenue P, rendering by Chi F. Lau Architect

Revealed: 168 Avenue P, Gravesend

7:30 am on March 9, 2016 By Rebecca Baird-Remba

It’s hard to build taller than three stories in most of Gravesend, a middle-class neighborhood in southern Brooklyn populated by a diverse mix of Syrian Jewish, Puerto Rican, Chinese, Mexican, Russian, and Ukrainian immigrants. But along the neighborhood’s northern edge, on the border with Midwood and Bensonhurst, the city allows new mid-rise apartment buildings.

Three-Story, 12-Unit Residential Building Filed At 128 Bay 43rd Street, Gravesend

2:00 pm on February 25, 2016 By Reid Wilson

Guan Yu Li, doing business as an anonymous Brooklyn-based LLC, has filed applications for a three-story, 12-unit residential building at 128 Bay 43rd Street, in western Gravesend, located four blocks from the 25th Avenue stop on the D train. The development will measure a total 11,515 square feet and its residential units will average 926 square feet apiece, which means either rentals or condominiums could be in the works. There will be eight surface parking spaces and 10 bicycle storage spaces. Lower Manhattan-based Jung Wor Chin Architect is the architect of record. The 67-foot-wide corner lot is currently vacant.

Ceasar's Bay Shopping Center, image via Bing Maps

Gravesend Mall Plans an Expansion at 1684 Shore Parkway

7:30 am on January 20, 2016 By Rebecca Baird-Remba

Anyone looking for a suburban-style mall has to travel to the outer edges of New York City, but there are a few sprawling commercial centers for New Yorkers who can drive to the southern reaches of Brooklyn. One of those malls is Ceasar’s Bay Shopping Center, a couple of acres of chain stores and parking lots on the shore of Gravesend Bay.

2632 West 13th Street, image via Bing Maps

New Hotel Headed for 2632 West 13th Street in Gravesend

7:00 am on December 23, 2015 By Rebecca Baird-Remba

Developers are rushing to file plans for hotels before the city’s new rules on hotel construction in manufacturing areas go into effect. The latest project we can add to the list is 2632 West 13th Street, planned deep in southern Brooklyn, in a particularly desolate part of Gravesend.

Three-Story, Six-Unit Residential Building Coming To 47 28th Avenue, Gravesend

1:00 pm on October 8, 2015 By Reid Wilson

Ralph Notaro has filed applications for a three-story, six-unit residential building at 47 28th Avenue, in southern Gravesend, two blocks from the Bay 50th Street stop on the D train. The building will measure 4,773 square feet, which translates into average units of 796 square feet. Steven Schneider’s New Jersey-based Schneider Associates is the applicant of record, and a two-story recessed structure must first be demolished.

Four-Story, Nine-Unit Residential Project Planned At 73 Bay 47th Street, Gravesend

12:30 pm on September 14, 2015 By Reid Wilson

Dyker Heights-based Francesco Mancini has filed applications for a four-story, nine-unit residential building at 73 Bay 47th Street, in southwestern Gravesend, two blocks from the D train’s stop at Bay 50th Street. The building will measure 9,585 square feet on a relatively large 80-foot-wide lot, and units will average 1,065 square feet. Brooklyn-based Bricolage Designs is the applicant of record, and an existing two-story brick house must first be demolished.

Three Stories, Nine Residential Units Coming To 2346 Boynton Place, Gravesend

4:00 pm on September 8, 2015 By Reid Wilson

Forest Hills-based developer Sharon Cohen has filed applications for three three-story, multi-family residential buildings at 2344-2346 Boynton Place, in southern Gravesend, a block from stops on the F or N subways, at Avenue X or 86th Street, respectively. Each building will contain three units. The development’s nine apartments will spread across 11,631 square feet of space, for average units of 1,292 square feet. Long Island-based Shahriar Afshari is the architect of record, and an existing home must first be demolished.

Four-Story, Five-Unit Building Filed at 127 27th Avenue in Gravesend

3:00 pm on April 21, 2015 By Reid Wilson

The property owner, doing business as 123 Park LLC, of 127 27th Avenue, in western Gravesend, has filed applications for a four-story, five-unit residential building measuring 4,520 square feet. Steven Schneider, of Schneider Associates, is designing, and the dilapidated two-story structure recently passed pre-demolition inspection.

1170 & 1174 East 8th Street, image from Google Maps

Permits Filed: 1170 East 8th Street, Midwood

6:00 am on October 21, 2014 By Stephen Smith

Gravesend is known for its opulent 21st century mansions, built mostly by Sephardic Jews from Syria in the decreasingly Italian neighborhood in southern Brooklyn. The area most heavily blanketed in huge new homes is the part of Gravesend…

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