Three Wood Frame Houses Demo'd for Karl Fischer-Designed Apartments
Three adorable wood frame Victorians are being torn down on Bedford Avenue between Lenox and Caton Avenues in Flatbush, according to a Brooklynian poster who snapped this photo. They’re coming down to make way for an eight-story Karl Fischer-designed building at 2100 Bedford Avenue, according to permits filed in December. The new development will have 78…
Three adorable wood frame Victorians are being torn down on Bedford Avenue between Lenox and Caton Avenues in Flatbush, according to a Brooklynian poster who snapped this photo. They’re coming down to make way for an eight-story Karl Fischer-designed building at 2100 Bedford Avenue, according to permits filed in December. The new development will have 78 units spread across 60,074 square feet, as well as 40 parking spaces on the cellar and first floor.
The properties at 2100-2110 Bedford Avenue sold for a combined $4,600,000 last year, public records show. Each of the homes sits on a lot that’s 40 feet wide and at least 100 feet deep, which means that a developer will have a 15,000-square-foot plot once the houses have bitten the dust.
Wood frame houses are falling prey to development all over the borough, and activity is especially intense in PLG and Flatbush right now. GMAP
Photo via Brooklynian
proposed permits for an 8-story 78-unit apartment building filed by one KARL FISCHER ARCHITECT! someone sound the curbed ny alarm
South of Clarkson makes this Flatbush.
This is a block from me. There are currently over 15 projects like this in this immediate area that are underway or with plans filed. Almost all rental buildings planned.
These wood frame Victorians have been under siege for 100 years. Most of the blocks around here are pre-war apartment buildings with houses like these interspersed, survivors from the last building boom. Most of the lots are oversized and the FAR is developer friendly. I know someone who has one that is in good shape and they have been getting offers for twice what they paid for it.
The north side of Lenox still has some Victorians like these that are on 40x200ft lots.
How about Downtown Flatbush? or Prospect Park Southeast?
Plain Flatbush suits it fine as well. Bushwick was a town, but is a neighborhood now, and nobody in Williamsburg insists that they are still part of Bushwick.
I don’t get why PLG isn’t called Prospect Park East. That’s what it says in those old real estate ads from the Brooklyn Eagle.
the area built out on this old map (i.e. not empty farmland) is what i think would be called Flatbush village, concentrating on flatbush and church aves: http://www.brooklynhistory.org/exhibitions/lefferts/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/ba_1873a.Fl_1.jpg
let the PLG snobs have their precious nomenclature! we’re the real heart of Flatbush B)
What should that area be called? My gf and i were joking that it will one day be known as PLG South, and then about 6 weeks later i actually saw that title in a real estate listing. It does seem like calling it just Flatbush (or PLGS) is not really highlighting the specific charm or history that that area deserves, being the nexus of several old beautiful buildings that have been there for hundred(s) of years, namely the Dutch Reform Church, Erasmus Hall, and the Flatbush Town Hall Building. How about “Flatbush Village”, or “Erasmus”? Any takers?
gee, if only we could at least…downzone….areas…that won’t be landmarked….
hmm.