Chock Full o' Character on Washington Avenue
We’ve always loved this house at 554 Washington Avenue between Atlantic and Fulton. Unlike any of its neighbors in appearance, the 1910 brownstone has had the same owner for the last 40 years as far as we can tell. The large front yard, mansard tower and rounded windows all add character to this place. It’ll…
We’ve always loved this house at 554 Washington Avenue between Atlantic and Fulton. Unlike any of its neighbors in appearance, the 1910 brownstone has had the same owner for the last 40 years as far as we can tell. The large front yard, mansard tower and rounded windows all add character to this place. It’ll also be interesting to see what happens with the vacant lot next door. This house has quite a bit of unused FAR which could potentially be transferred next door. GMAP
what might unused FAR be worth in Clinton Hill? do you sell your unused FAR just like air rights and then file record of the sale with the city?
I conceed, you caught me in my attempt to over-simplify our wonderful building code. Thanks for the link!
Now if I set up a non-profit and get my grandparents to move in…
Not to be nitpicky about details, but the maximum FAR in an R6 zone with quality housing is 3.0. You can follow this link:
http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/pdf/zone/art03c03.pdf
for Article II, Chapter 3, #23-145 of the zoning resolution. It’s mentioned on page 17. If we wanted to get really technical, the maximum FAR for non-profit residences for the elderly in an R6 zone is 3.90. 😛
Nice, but how about that giganitic satellite dish? Ack.
Oops, meant to say on this block of Washington, between Atlantic and Fulton…
I’ve always liked that place too. Wasn’t Corcoran or some other company involved in a devlopment on this block of Atlantic, on the East side of the street. Condos I think. Any word on that? I believe they demolished a building and were going to build in its place…
Also, I posted in another thread about the iron faced building across from Bodegas where there looked to be some work being done. Turns out, from the Work Permit on the door, that they are cleaning up the premises and fixing the back wall to address a DOB/ECB violation. Who knows if that means more development, or a future sale, is in the works.
R6A is 3.0
R6 is 2.43
R6B is 2.0
R6 is kind of the norm and R6B is usually present in those areas that have been downzoned. This is the case in most of Park Slope and now the recently downzoned South Slope/Greenwood Heights. R6A is usually on wider streets such as Washington Ave in Prospect Heights and allows for larger buildings.
I don’t happen to remember what the size of a wide street is (maybe it is over 80, not 60), but the maximum FAR in an R6 zone is 3.0. I believe the 2.43 is just the maximum for height factor. Again, this is just off of the top of my head, so I’m not 100% sure, but I do know the maximum for R6 is 3.0, but maximum means that most buildings in an R6 zone don’t qualify.
Shane, i’ve never heard of FAR being 3.0 for wide streets. In fact according to DOB a narrow street is any street less than 75ft wide. Also, according to DOB, the FAR for r6 residential buildings is 2.43. So a 20×100 lot has 2000 sq ft and 4860 sq ft of floor area.