Ditmas Park Corner

Two Homes On E. 19th Street, Near Cortelyou, To Be Torn Down & Replaced By Eight-Story Rental Building

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Plans have been filed for two homes on E. 19th Street, between Cortelyou and Dorchester, to be torn down to make way for an eight-story development. Photo via Google Maps.

Plans have been filed for two homes on E. 19th Street, between Cortelyou and Dorchester, to be torn down to make way for an eight-story development. Photo via Google Maps.

After learning that an LLC filed late last month to tear down a house at 2 Stratford Road to make way for a three-story development, we’ve discovered a number of more filings for development in our area.

As first reported by New York YIMBY, there were filings with the city Department of Buildings for three projects on Thursday, February 5: one to tear down two homes on E. 19th Street, between Cortelyou Road and Dorchester, and replace them with an eight-story rental building; another to add a seven-story, 29-unit mixed-use building at Flatbush Avenue and Clarendon Road; and one to erect a 21-unit apartment building on Church Avenue, between Rogers and Bedford Avenues.

The filing for 323 E. 19th Street calls for two houses wedged between apartment buildings to be razed and replaced by an eight story, 38-unit rental building – including a little more than 26,000 square feet of residential space. According to the filing, the site’s architect is Charles Mallea’s Manhattan-based M Architecture and the developer is Borough Park-based Barry Farkas, of Ditmas Park Lofts LLC.

At 1127 Flatbush Avenue, there’s a filing for a seven-story 29-unit building (which New York YIMBY reported would likely be rentals and have an average unit size below 700 square feet), including close to 20,000 square feet for apartments and 2,300 square feet of commercial space. According to the filing, Daniel Vislocky, of Atkins & Breskin Co., would develop the site that’s on the corner of Flatbush and Clarendon, and Michael Muroff would be the architect.

The third filing is another one from developer Barry Farkas and architect Charles Mallea and is a plan for a 21-unit building at 2527 Church Avenue, between Rogers and Bedford Avenues. The filing calls for a seven-story building that includes a little more than 14,000 square feet of residential space.

What do you think of these developments? What will they mean for the neighborhood?

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  • genny mcgentry

    niiiiiiiiccccccce. i have no doubt that it will become affordable housing.

  • J

    991 Ocean Avenue (b/w Ditmas & Newkirk) was demolished in 2014 and they are preparing for construction of a new apartment building.

    • Amber

      This is right outside my window and I’ve been recording its progress. They just chopped down the remaining trees in the lot.

  • Lenny

    E 19th and foster. On e19 a house is in the process of coming down. Yuck.

  • amanda

    omg some parts of Brooklyn are beautiful because they do have that suburban feel, just imagine how many other house they are going to tear down and then it will have the Manhattan feel and ruin the sense of community that’s been around there for years, hopefully by Glenwood and Coney island avenue the houses wont be torn down in the years to come.

  • B.

    And there go the tenants’ windows along with air and light. Just as that ugly gray building on Stratford, just south of Dorchester, practically touches the neighboring home’s rooflines, so all new construction, it seems, slaps itself right up to property lines.

    What happened to airways and side gardens? Or, for that matter, window trim that’s real and not just painted on?

  • spanky tomato

    Street parking is about to get worse in this corner of the nabe!

  • Dale

    The way these two houses are sandwiched between larger buildings now, I consider this the city planning equivalent of a “mercy killing”.

  • Lucy

    This neighborhood needs much more affordable housing. This is a giant step in the right direction.

    • Amber

      I agree. More affordable housing. The increase in human traffic will also be a boon to the small businesses.

    • Bk native

      Do we know these are gonna be affordable housing? That definitely would be great considering the insane rising rents in the neighborhood.

      • guest

        It’s definitely not going to be affordable housing. Real estate is too hot here. Poor people don’t generate cash.

        • Bk native

          That’s a shame than. It was better when it wasn’t so hot around here cause that’s what’s driving prices way up. And poor people need places to live as well.

        • Mike The Boss

          it actually will be affordable i know the developers they are very into doing affordable

          • guest

            There’s no such thing as a developer who’s into affordable.

          • Jack a

            Yes I’m renting an apartment from this developer in a different location it’s brand new spacious and very affordable !!! I’m not saying it’s dirt cheap but it’s very affordable and the agency that helped me get it was very nice and helpful I wish more landlords were like them !!!!

  • mapledell

    Do we know how much the developer paid for those two lots?

    • Kitty Skrobela

      319 sold for 1.1 million, and 323 for 1.3 million.

  • Musket Tucker

    I live a few doors down. I wonder what will happen to the folks living there. :(

    • mapledell

      Sounds like they’ll be able to buy another house, much nicer and welcoming, without a monster cube of concrete right next to it.

      • Musket Tucker

        I’m pretty sure they rent.