At the end of last month, the DOB approved plans for a new four-story, four-family house at 19 Lefferts Place in Clinton Hill. (It’s just the left half of the plywood frontage.) The developers managed to pick the site up for a song—$76,000—from an estate last year and have hired the architect Elena Kalman (of Newswalk fame) to do the design. It’s R6-B zoning, so at least the facade and roofline will have to line up with the neighboring brownstone. They’re skipping the stoop, we hear, and only putting in three floors in the allowable 40-foot height, and then setting back the 4th floor. We’re also hearing that the plan is to use brownstone on the facade and have above-averages-sized windows. Only time will tell whether all this will cohere into an attractive design. The odds are against them but maybe this will surprise on the upside for a change. Wouldn’t that be nice. GMAP P*Shark DOB