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Here’s the design for the big apartment building that will replace the BP gas station and car wash on a prominent Crown Heights corner, Bedford and Eastern Parkway. As you may recall, developer Adam America bought the property forĀ $32,500,000 in January.

The Issac and Stern-designed building will be rectangular with two setbacks, and clad in a combination of light and dark-colored brick. It will have eight stories, with ground-floor retail spaceĀ that “meets the intersection at the sameĀ acute angle as its somewhat irregular lot,” according to YIMBY, which was the first to publish the renderings. It looks pretty similar to the building planned for the former Fox Savoy Theater site next door, which is also being designed by Issac and Stern.

The Issac and Stern-designed project at 1535 Bedford Avenue will have 133 apartments,Ā 14,669 square feet of ground floor retail and 42 parking spots, as reported earlier this year. The new buildingĀ will have a street address of 1519 Bedford.

Do you think this will be an improvement for the corner or will you miss the gas station and car wash?

Revealed: 1535 Bedford Avenue, Crown Heights [NYY]
Crown Heights Gas Station Sells for $32.5 Million, Eight-Story Building PlannedĀ [Brownstoner]

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  1. A buffer between cars and pedestrians is not necessary in places where drivers drive sanely. And double-parking DOES NOT increase pedestrian safety–in fact, it prevents the smooth, steady, safe flow of traffic, by encouraging/forcing lane changes, merges, and other aggressive behavior. Double-parking is not at all the same as safe street design.

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