Flatlands

Two-Story, 6,200 Square-Foot Mixed-Use Commercial Project At 4515 Avenue N, Flatlands

10:00 am on October 13, 2015 By Reid Wilson

Ralph Notaro, doing business as an anonymous LLC, has filed applications for twin two-story, 3,119 square-foot mixed-use commercial buildings at 4511-4515 Avenue N, in Flatlands, two blocks from the Flatbush Avenue corridor. Both buildings will contain 1,919 square feet of health care facilities on the ground and cellar levels, and 1,200 square feet of office space on the second floors. New Jersey-based Schneider Associates is the applicant of record, and the site’s single-story predecessor was demolished in 2008.

Four-Story, 46-Key Comfort Inn Hotel Underway At 1766 East 49th Street, Flatlands

2:30 pm on October 6, 2015 By Reid Wilson

Queens-based Talwinder Parmar is currently constructing a four-story, 46-key Comfort Inn hotel at 1766 East 49th Street, in southern Flatlands, on a vacant lot between Avenues N and O. The building will total 9,995 square feet, and rooms will average 217 square feet apiece. Jamaica-based Manish Savani is the architect of record. According to the Brooklyn Daily, local residents are concerned the hotel is being built to house homeless people through a city program. Applications were filed for the project late last year.

Why Brooklyn Needs the Utica Avenue Subway Extension

6:00 pm on April 24, 2015 By Rebecca Baird-Remba

The city has had grand plans to build a Utica Avenue subway line for nearly a century, and on Wednesday, de Blasio resurrected the idea of extending the 4 train out as far as Kings Plaza in Mill Basin, bringing trains to a transit-starved area of southeastern Brooklyn.

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