Brighton Beach

Leonid Berlinkov, doing business as an LLC, has filed applications for a four-story, six-unit residential building at 407 Ocean View Avenue, in Brighton Beach, two blocks away from the Brighton Beach stop on the B and Q lines. The building will total 4,246 square feet, which means units will average a rental-sized 708 square feet apiece, although the residence on the fourth floor will also include a fifth-floor penthouse. Coney Island-based Zarina Ross’s Arcon Studio is the applicant of record, and permits were filed to demolish the existing single-story house in April.

A 12-story apartment building is set to replace five small houses in Brighton Beach, only a few short blocks from the waterfront and the neighborhood’s stop on the B and Q trains.

Raymond Guindi has filed applications for a five-story, 25-unit residential building at 1 Brighton 3rd Road, in Brighton Beach, five blocks from the F train’s stop at Neptune Avenue. The building will measure 27,866 square feet, which means units will average 1,115 square feet, likely indicating condominiums. Downtown Brooklyn-based Sears Tambasco Architects is designing, and four single-story homes must first be demolished.

Throughout the 20th century, the main form of development in Brooklyn has been redevelopment, with developers razing single-family homes and small walk-up apartments to erect larger multifamily buildings. That process was severely curtailed with the 1961 zoning…