Permits have been filed for an eight-story school at 156 17th Street, in Greenwood, Brooklyn. The site is nine blocks away from both the 25th Street Station and 9th Street Station, serviced by the D, N, R, and W trains. SDS Brooklyn will be responsible for the development, which suggests this will not be a public school.
New building applications have been filed for a small site at 303 23rd Street, in Brooklyn’s Greenwood neighborhood. An existing one-story garage must first be demolished, and the permits list the replacement’s size at four floors and a total area of 7,419 square feet. The usable residential space will total 5,829 square feet, which will be divided between four units, for a generous average size of almost 1,500 square feet, indicative of condominiums. Douglas Pulaski of Bricolage Designs is the architect of record, and Anthony Devito of 75 Bay 17th Street, LLC, is listed as the developer.
Many of the little wood frame houses along the avenues in Park Slope and Greenwood Heights might not be around much longer. They occupy generously zoned lots near public transportation, in a neighborhood where rents are rising fast. And today we have a rendering for what’s replacing two old houses at 643-645 5th Avenue in Greenwood Heights.
In March, details were revealed of the proposed rezoning of Industry City – a six-million-square-foot industrial-commercial complex – located west of the Gowanus Expressway, in Greenwood and Sunset Park. The developers – Jamestown Properties, Belvedere Capital, and Angelo Gordon – are now moving forward with a piece of the overall redevelopment that is independent of the rezoning. Building 19, at 168 39th Street (a.k.a. 148 39th Street), on the corner of Second Avenue, is going to be converted into 500,000 square feet of office space, according to Commercial Observer. The office space will be located across the first seven floors of the building. The conversion will feature a new lobby, new windows, and upgrades to infrastructure and equipment, like the installation of modern elevators. The Brooklyn Nets recently completed their new 70,000 square-foot training facility, called the Hospital for Special Surgery Training Center, on the eighth floor of the building.
The Landmarks Preservation Commission’s backlog, which had been reduced from 95 items to 30 items in February, has taken another big step towards being cleared. On Tuesday, the LPC designated eight new city individual landmarks, and they span all five boroughs.
