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[chris08876]

30-Story Residential High-Rise Planned For 1625 Shore Parkway In Bensonhurst, Brooklyn

Permits have been filed for a new 30-story residential building at 1625 Shore Parkway, in the South Brooklyn neighborhood of Bensonhurst. The site is between Belt Parkway and Cropsey Avenue, and about three blocks away from Bensonhurst Park. The closest subway station, Bay Parkway, sits three avenues away and is serviced by the D train. The historically Italian neighborhood has a fabric more akin to suburban sprawl, featuring many big-box shopping options. The new structure will be located near Caesar’s Bay Shopping Center, a commercial strip with stores including BJ’s Wholesale, Best Buy, and Modell’s Sporting Goods.

Shore Towers Brooklyn, an LLC by developer LandPex, is listed as the owner.

David West of Hill West Architects is designing the 278,344 square foot building, which includes a community space, 243 units, and 165 enclosed parking spaces. The 30-story structure will rise 326 feet on the through-lot, and overlooks a 30-foot yard in the rear. Units will average 1,145 square feet apiece, likely translating into condos.

The project should be a welcome addition in a neighborhood that seldom sees supplemental new housing inventory. LandPex is known for developing residential projects with a mix of affordable and high-end rental units.

No completion date for the project has been announced yet.

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[chris08876]

This is pretty big for the area.

Via maps.

[steyin]

Some incorrect info in that article...

[chris08876]

See south Brooklyn's future tallest building underway at 2230 Cropsey Avenue

A new skyline icon is coming to the lower bay of New York Harbor. 2230 Cropsey Avenue (aka 1625 Shore Parkway) is a 30-story, 248-unit mixed-use development to present residents with dazzling harbor/ocean views and an upscale amenity package that features a swimming pool and high-floor terrace/lounge. The designers at the helm are Hill West Architects, a firm noted for luxury residential towers such as Skyline Tower in Long Island City and Seaport Residences downtown.

With its masonry podium and glass shaft propped above, new renderings show a sleek design reminiscent of the firm's One West End condo on the Upper West Side. According to approved building permits, the tower will stand 356 feet high to its elevator bulkhead, making it the tallest building in the borough south of Prospect Park--just ahead of Avalon Brooklyn Bay.

The sizeable block-through site is located at the cusp of Bath Beach and Bensonhurst and is bounded by Shore Parkway to the west and Cropsey Avenue to the east. The D train’s Bay Parkway station is nearby as well as the Ceasar’s Bay Shopping Center along the waterfront.

The 280,000-square-foot scheme will accommodate 243 apartments, a mix of affordable and high-end units, coupled with 170 on-site parking spaces and community space. Amenities will include resident storage, a laundry room, bike storage, fitness center, a swimming pool and deck, and a common lounge and terrace on the 23rd floor. It is unknown if the units will be for rent or for sale, but there will be between seven and 11 apartments per floor. Lower floors will be home to a daycare center and an ambulatory care facility.

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[steyin]

Ah the news on this finally came out. Shame they cropped out the top of the renderings.

[Crawford]

This will be big for South Brooklyn.

Just need a few more of these towers from Sheepshead Bay to Bensonhurst, centered on Coney Island, and the oceanfront skyline will really impress.

[NYguy]

Another...


https://zap.planning.nyc.gov/projects/2019K0271

2300 Cropsey Avenue

Environmental Assessment Statement Filed
August 12, 2020

This is a private application by Cropsey Partners LLC requesting a Zoning Map Amendment(ZM) to rezone a R6 district to a R6/C2-4 district to facilitate a new 23- stories, 239,424 sf, 154-DU mixed residential, commercial and community facility development, including approx. 165,200 square feet of residential area, 39,000 square feet of community facility area and approx. 35,200 square feet of commercial area, at 2300 Cropsey Avenue in Bensonhurst neighborhood.

[chris08876]

I'd like to see a corridor of high rises along the Belt Parkway. Something to look at when stuck in bumper to bumper traffic. We all know those days. From JFK... to the Verrazzano's, where it takes an hour... and than another hour just to clear Staten Island. Ah... the good old days!

This is good though. East NY has been seeing a ton of new developments as well. This area, and really, anything within proximity to the Belt Parkway offers good housing potential. Problem is, the traffic, but... a lot of land to build housing.

Fun times in traffic, like the time I had to pee in an energy drink can when I was stuck on the Cross-Bronx, and it got all over my fingers and pants. Ah... the memories!!!

[steyin]

Perhaps time to move this to the construction forum:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/isaac...491459584-Ru7e

[Crawford]

Nice. Facade looks pretty good. The Belt Parkway corridor is gaining some real towers.

I bike along the shoreline, not too far from here. It's a pretty nice neighborhood, so they should get good rents for the luxury units.

[steyin]

Image at the site:

[Gantz]

Interesting area to start building tall.
The more I think about it, the more it actually makes sense. This is not even far from 86th street.

[Barney Greengrass]

A bit surprising considering how far it is from a subway station, but still welcome. Too bad the waterfront views will mostly be of a massive parking lot, but that could always change if that land becomes too valuable to resist densification.

[steyin]

Originally Posted by Boerumer

A bit surprising considering how far it is from a subway station, but still welcome. Too bad the waterfront views will mostly be of a massive parking lot, but that could always change if that land becomes too valuable to resist densification.

The D train at Bay Parkway is 3 blocks away, about a 5 minute walk or so. This has pretty nice views of Staten Island/Manhattan to the north and Coney Island/Atlantic to the south, then the rest of Brooklyn on the Cropsey side, but yes you will see that huge lot at Caesar's Bay (calling it that might show my age...).

[chris08876]

City Planning Hears Application to Allow Supermarket in New Construction in Gravesend

03/23/2022

The densely residential area lacks many commercial spaces, including supermarkets. On March 16, 2022, the City Planning Commission heard an application that would allow for a supermarket to be added to a new 23-story tower currently under construction at 2300 Cropsey Avenue in Gravesend, Brooklyn.

The new 23-story mixed-use tower can be constructed as-of-right for residential and community facility uses. The building will have 154 units, and also features a parking garage and will have a charter school operate out of some of the community facility space on the second floor. There is approximately 35,000 square feet of ground floor space that can currently be used as community facility space that the applicants would like to use as a supermarket, which will require a commercial overlay to the current zoning to allow the supermarket to operate in that space.

The applicants, represented by Sheldon Lobel, P.C., noted that the residential district in which the building was located lacked many commercial overlays, which resulted in a dense residential area with limited commercial options, including supermarkets and grocery stores. The applicants also highlighted that Cropsey Avenue is a wide avenue that is better suited to handle commercial traffic.

According to the applicant, there have been preliminary talks with several different food stores about the space but no food store or chain has committed to opening a supermarket in the space.

Both Brooklyn Community Board 11 and Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso issued favorable conditions for the application. Community Board 11 requested that a traffic study be done twelve months post development, that no loading or unloading will take place on the street and that deliveries be coordinated to not impact the arrival and departure of students at nearby schools.

At the public hearing, Commissioner Anna Hayes Levin asked about the plans for loading and deliveries and the impact on schools. Mr. Lobel confirmed there will be a traffic study done post-development, and that delivery trucks would be able to access the parking area in the cellar through a curb cut to allow for deliveries to occur inside and off the street. The charter school’s hours of operation do not seem to conflict with the typical delivery times for a supermarket.

No members of the public testified. The City Planning Commission will vote on this application at a later date.

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https://www.citylandnyc.org/city-pla...-in-gravesend/

[Busy Bee]

How this area hasn't seen more highrise construction over the years is beyond me. I guess the only thing that explains it is the city's middle class crisis that started in the 60s. If that decline had never occurred the entire Lower Bay shoreline would probably look like Miami Beach.

Related is how Caesar's Bay shopping center desperately is begging for an enormous redevelopment that would put thousands of units right on the waters edge. A subway down Bay Parkway would of course be amazing.

[Crawford]

The supermarket is going in a different tower.

There are three separate towers going up along this short stretch of Cropsey Ave.

[steyin]

Seems to be half way up in structure:

[Crawford]

Nice. Really hope we get more of this along the South Brooklyn waterfront.

The whole corridor from Bay Ridge to Canarsie should have highrise residential.

[Busy Bee]

Originally Posted by Crawford

Nice. Really hope we get more of this along the South Brooklyn waterfront.

The whole corridor from Bay Ridge to Canarsie should have highrise residential.

One of the most bizarre aspects of NYC real estate is why the entire lower bay and oceanfront shore is anything short of a south Florida wall of 20-30 floor high rises. Had postwar history taken a different path and suburbanization not nearly as rampant, i think we would have seen just that, and along with many other things that would have contributed towards further cosmopolitanism, likely a city population of 10-12 million.

But cars, racism, government policy and American mythology of a castle for every man had other plans.