What’s Really Happening at 483 Washington Ave?

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So we’re a little embarrassed to admit that we don’t really know what’s going on on this block of Washington between Fulton and Gates. We know the demo at 483 Washington Avenue (top photo), next to the church, has been going on for a few weeks now, but it never occurred to us that they would actually be tearing this old building down! WTF? Is that really what’s happening or this just an extreme version of a gut reno? Take a look at Property Shark to see a photo of the original building with its mansard roof. A non-profit group Neighborhood Restore Housing Development owns the property and can probably do whatever it likes, since the building has the unfortunate luck of lying a few feet outside of the Clinton Hill Historic District. What about across the street at 504-508 Washington (bottom photo)? What’s going up there?

By Brownstoner |