A Micro-Neighborhood At The Border Of Woodside and Sunnyside Grows On Queens Boulevard

While developments from Downtown Brooklyn to Hudson Yards are transforming skylines and making headlines, smaller scale projects are also capable of altering neighborhood paradigms. Along Queens Boulevard, in the borderlands of Woodside and Sunnyside, this is now the case, and new buildings are changing a former no-mans-land into an increasingly popular neighborhood.

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2921 Brighton 1st Street

Four-Story, Seven-Unit Residential Building Planned At 2921 Brighton 1st Street, Brighton Beach

Vladimir Kindo, doing business as an anonymous LLC, has filed applications for a four-story, seven-unit residential building at 2921 Brighton 1st Street, in Brighton Beach. That is two blocks north of the Ocean Parkway stop on the Q train. The structure will measure 4,913 square feet in total, which means units will average a rental-sized 702 square feet apiece. Zarina Ross’s Brooklyn-based Arcon Studio is the applicant of record. An existing single-story home must first be demolished.

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