Most Brooklynites know that Borough Park and Midwood are Orthodox Jewish strongholds, but fewer people are familiar with the somewhat smaller, tight-knit Jewish community in Mill Basin, a coastal neighborhood along Jamaica Bay. A developer plans to build six stories of faculty and staff housing next door to a Jewish charter school, according to new building applications filed yesterday.
When Ben Shaoul’s Magnum Real Estate Group shelled out $270 million for two luxury rental buildings in the Upper East Side and Gramercy last year, it was only a matter of time until they became condos. Now construction is moving along at 385 First Avenue in Gramercy, and the property has a teaser site and a new name: Luminaire.
Brookland Capital is one of Brooklyn’s most prolific small developers, with projects stretching from South Williamsburg to Flatbush. And today YIMBY has a better look at 447 Decatur Street, one of Brookland’s small Bed-Stuy developments.
Feng Lin, doing business under an anonymous LLC, has filed applications for a three-story, three-unit residential building at 136-19 Booth Memorial Avenue, in Queensborough Hill. The building will measure 3,948 square feet, which means the full-floor units will be spacious, averaging 1,316 square feet. Xiaohong Zhao’s Queens-based Ameriland Brook is the applicant of record, and applications were recently filed to demolish an existing 1.5-story single-family home on the site.
DHA Capital has filed plans to expand and convert a parking garage into apartments at 75 Kenmare Street, on the corner of Mulberry Street in Little Italy.
