Ocean Avenue is lined with large, detached single-family homes on deep lots, making it incredibly attractive to developers who want to construct mid-rise apartment buildings in low-slung sections of southern Brooklyn. Last week, one of those developers filed an application to build a six-story residential project at 2503 Ocean Avenue, on the border between Madison and Sheepshead Bay.
Ocean Bay Building Management has filed construction permits, reviving plans filed back in the summer of 2014, for their nine-story, 56-unit mixed-use building at 2126-2130 Ocean Avenue, in Madison (near the southern Midwood border). The building will measure nearly 53,100 square feet and includes a 510 square-foot community facility. Three two-story buildings were recently demolished to make-way for the project, and Building Consulting Engineering is the architect of record.
Deep in southern Brooklyn, in the borderlands between Midwood and Sheepshead Bay, a developer is planning to demolish two houses to make way for an eight-story apartment building at 2226 Ocean Avenue.
Up until the 1960s, before urban decline set in and the 1961 zoning code severely restricted densities throughout all of the city, Ocean Avenue was the center of a great building boom in Brooklyn, as single-family…
BRONX: 2848 Bainbridge Avenue: Ursuline Bedford Park Convent has filed applications for an eight-story, 184-unit residential building measuring nearly 230,000 square feet at 2848 Bainbridge Avenue, in Bedford Park. OVC Architects is designing, and the building will…