Six-Story Building Replacing East Williamsburg Wood Frame House
No unlandmarked wood frame house in Brooklyn is safe! Demolition permits have been filed to take down this two-story wood frame at 32 Maspeth Avenue in East Williamsburg; the owner hopes to replace it with a six-story apartment building. Whenever we see a wide frame house in this area, one of the original Dutch settlements of…
No unlandmarked wood frame house in Brooklyn is safe! Demolition permits have been filed to take down this two-story wood frame at 32 Maspeth Avenue in East Williamsburg; the owner hopes to replace it with a six-story apartment building.
Whenever we see a wide frame house in this area, one of the original Dutch settlements of Brooklyn, we wonder about its age, although this one doesn’t look much older the 19th century, at least from the outside. The settlement was deeded in 1638 and named Boswijck in 1661.
The new building will have nine units spread across 6,200 square feet of space, along with a roof deck, according to a new building application that was disapproved in July. The architect of record is Wieslawa Jasiulewicz Majran, and permits list the owner as Andrzej Potrapeluk. The two-family house sold for $1,275,000 last October, after about two months on the market. GMAP
Photo by Christopher Bride for PropertyShark
I suspect all 5 of these houses will eventually sell out – just to the left of the pink stucco house is that 6-7 story giant new building that actually looks nice. The triangular fenced parking lot of old decrepit cars just across the street where Maspeth, Conselyea, and Woodpoint Rd meet is also for sale and/or already sold. I imagine an odd triangle shaped building will go there with some weird floor plans. On the old B&W photos of the Memorial Gore area looking east from the 1937 show there were some old houses on that odd shaped lot.