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We can’t keep up with all the 19th century wood frames being marketed as development sites or torn down. We are sad to report that a rambling, two-story frame house with a porch on a big lot in Bushwick near the graveyards that looks like it could date from theĀ 1850s or ’60s will be torn down to make way for a six-story apartment building with 13 apartments.

Brookland Capital bought the property, whose address is 189 Cooper Street, pictured above, for $1,145,000 in August.Ā Click through to see what it looked like in the 1970s, when it was still a freestanding house and not covered by siding.

Wyckoff Heights was the first to report on the plans, back in September. An application for a demo permit was filed in October but has not yet been issued.

Also threatened by sale as a development site is 165-171 Veronica Place, another wood frame that looks as if it could be very old indeed, in Flatbush. Click through to see it. Real estate firm Epic Commercial Realty has the listing, which is asking $1,160,000. Already approved plans for the site call for three three-story, two-family row houses.

And finally,Ā 309 Lenox Road in East Flatbush, a wood frame from the latter quarter of the 19th century, is also for sale as a development site. The asking price is $1,700,000 for 20,640 buildable square feet on a 30 by 200 foot lot. Click through to see it.

Photos by Nicholas Strini for PropertyShark

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Above, 165-171 Veronica Place, in Flatbush.

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Above, 189 Cooper Street, in Bushwick, in its 1970s tax photo, when it was still a freestanding house and before it was covered in vinyl siding. The shape of the house is typical of mid-19th century Italianate houses.

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Above, 309 Lenox Road, in East Flatbush.


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  1. Does anyone know anything about 2100, 2106, and 2110 Bedford Ave, between Lenox and Caton?
    3 big wood frame Flatbush Victorians probably from the turn of the century, some in bad shape, some seemingly still lived in.
    Looks like they sold in September for a few million.
    Listing says:
    2100,2106 AND 2110 BEDFORD AVE, THESE 3 DWELLINGSARE OFFERED SEPARATELY OR TOGETHER AS A POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT SITE, ALL 3 CONSISTS OF ALMOST 20,000 BUILDABLE SQ.FT. IN R-7 ZONING, PRICE IS NEGO Brokered And Advertised By: PRUDENTIAL DOUGLAS ELLIMAN R.E. Listing Agent: Jack Rothstein

  2. Most of the people in low income communities as Bushwick simply could not afford a more expensive approach to protect their buildongs from the ravages of the weather. You simply cannot blame them for not being more purely preservation minded. They has far more important bottom line economic issues to contend with.

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