Gravesend

Property owner Hong Bin Zhu has filed applications for a three-story, four-unit residential building at 1625 West 6th Street, in northern Gravesend, located four blocks from the Bay Parkway stop on the N train. The project will encompass 7,168 square feet and its residential units should average a spacious 1,335 square feet apiece. They will likely be condominiums, and there will be two located in the ground floor, followed by two full-floor units. Sugnam Chang’s Brooklyn-based Basic Groups Corp. is the architect of record. The 40-foot-wide, 4,000-square-foot lot is currently occupied by a two-story house. Demolition permits have not yet been filed.

Xiaying Li, doing business as a Brooklyn-based LLC, has filed applications for a four-story, six-unit residential building at 2370 West 11th Street, in southern Gravesend, located three blocks from the Bay 50th Street stop on the D train. The new building will measure 5,338 square feet in total and its residential units should average 820 square feet apiece, indicative of rental apartments. The ground floor will host a single apartment along with an enclosed parking space. The next two floors will contain two units apiece and the fourth floor will have a full-floor apartment. Dezhang Fang’s Flushing-based Fang Architect is the architect of record. The 40-foot-wide, 4,000-square-foot lot is currently vacant.

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.

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.