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A vacant lot protected by roll-down gates at 1425 Fulton in Bed Stuy is up for sale and could become a 33-unit apartment building with stores on the ground floor.

The seller, who’s offering it through GFI Realty Services Inc., is looking to get a whopping $6,000,000 for the site, located between Marcy and Tompkins. Ambitious, perhaps, though the broker touts development rights allowing for a 22,365 square foot mixed-use building.

That works out to $268 per buildable square foot.

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A local developer plans to raise an eight-story mixed-use building at the corner of Fulton and Franklin Streets in Bed Stuy.

Plans filed with the city last week for 1134 Fulton Street call for 117 rental units that will sit atop ground-floor retail and, strangely, parking for 75 cars on the second story. The building, to be designed by architect Karl Fischer, will also hold a gym, a third-floor terrace, bicycle storage and a laundry room.

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This three-bedroom duplex in Bed Stuy retains an original feel with decorative marble mantels and original moldings. Modern kitchen appliances and a high end stacked washer/dryer complement the apartment’s original character. There is also an updated bathroom.

It occupies the top two floors of a brownstone and is close to Stuy Heights shops. Do you think it’s a good deal, for $3,300 a month?

359 Decatur Street, #2 [Douglas Elliman] GMAP
Photo above by Douglas Elliman; photo below by Property Shark

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Brooklyn, one building at a time.

Name: Originally Association for Improving the Conditions of the Poor, now Ebenezer Gospel Tabernacle
Address: 470 Throop Avenue
Cross Streets: Gates Avenue and Quincy Street
Neighborhood: Bedford Stuyvesant
Year Built: 1891
Architectural Style: Queen Anne
Architect: Probably Parfitt Brothers
Other Buildings by Architect: St. Augustine RC Church, Grace Methodist Church in Park Slope. Berkeley, Grosvenor and Montague Apartment buildings in Brooklyn Heights, Truslow mansion, Crown Heights North, as well as row houses, flats buildings, fire houses and commercial buildings throughout Brooklyn
Landmarked: No

The story: The Association for Improving the Conditions of the Poor (AICP) was founded in New York City in 1843 as a charitable organization aimed at helping those the Victorians called the “deserving poor.”

They established outreach centers that could further their goals, which included housing reform, and distribution centers for clothing, dry goods, medical supplies and coal. They also aided in burial expenses and sometimes rent.

Here in Brooklyn, a separate branch was founded by Seth Low and other rich and influential Brooklynites. They commissioned a two-story building on Livingston Street that would act as headquarters as well as a distribution and help center. It was located where 110 Livingston is today. The architects for that project were the Parfitt Brothers.

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It doesn’t get much grander than this Italianate at 166 Lefferts Place in Bed Stuy. The main attractions here are the elaborately detailed Italianate marble mantels — there are six.

The house also has its original front doors, shutters, inlaid floors, two pier mirrors, and many other original details. Click through for more photos and to see the well-preserved exterior.

It’s set up as two floor-through apartments over an owener’s duplex but the floor plan looks intact and easy to convert to a triplex or one-family. It appears to have been recently updated, with high-end appliances and granite counters in the owner’s kitchen.

An open house is scheduled for this Sunday, the 19th. What do you think of it and the ask of $2,100,000?

166 Lefferts Place Listing [Halstead] GMAP
Photos by Halstead

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Brooklyn, one building at a time.

Name: Former Public School 26, now Excelsior Charter School
Address: 848 Quincy Street
Cross Streets: Ralph and Patchen avenues
Neighborhood: Bedford Stuyvesant
Year Built: 1890-91
Architectural Style: Romanesque Revival
Architect: James W. Naughton
Other Buildings by Architect: Many of Brooklyn’s finest school buildings, including Boys High School, Girls High School, PS 70, all in Bedford Stuyvesant. Also PS 9 Annex in Prospect Hts, PS 107 in Park Slope, PS 108 in Cypress Hills, among many others.
Landmarked: No

The story: The neighborhood around yesterday’s Building of the Day, 838 Quincy Street, yielded several other interesting buildings. This one was the most spectacular of all.

Even before the Civil War, there were more than enough students in this part of Brooklyn to cause the Brooklyn Board of Education to build a school here. In 1856, the first PS 26 opened in a wood-framed building on Ralph Avenue and New Bushwick Lane.

A year later, the city purchased eight lots of land between Ralph and Patchen Avenues, opening up onto Gates and Quincy Streets. It took them a while, but in 1869, the new school, a three story brick building, opened for business.

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We’ve noticed development in Bed Stuy going gangbusters lately, and now there is data to prove it. Last quarter, developers filed more permits for new residential buildings in Bed Stuy than in any other neighborhood in all of New York City.

Developers filed permits for 33 new residential building in the neighborhood in the first quarter. That was three times the number filed in the runner-up neighborhood, Bushwick, which had 11 applications.

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Brooklyn, one building at a time.

Name: Row house
Address: 838 Quincy Street
Cross Streets: Ralph and Patchen avenues
Neighborhood: Bedford Stuyvesant
Year Built: Between 1880 and 1888
Architectural Style: Italianate
Architect: Unknown
Landmarked: No

The story: The little anomalies, the quirks, and the odd buildings that pop up all over the city help make Brooklyn so interesting, architecturally. Why would someone build a one story house that looks like a traditional row house cut off at the knees?

Was there a fire, and the upper stories were never rebuilt? Did someone have enough money to build only one floor? Or did they just want a small house without any frills, with just enough space to meet their needs? We’ll probably never know.

This is the old 25th Ward, the easternmost part of Bedford, bordering on Bushwick. It was also called the Eastern District, a wide swath of land that covered much of Eastern Bed Stuy, as well as Bushwick and part of East Williamsburg.