City permitted for 184-unit affordable rental in Brownsville

New York City’s Housing Preservation and Development, on December 8, received a permit for construction of a 184-unit, 189,907-square-foot mixed-use building at 273 Snediker Avenue in Brownsville, Brooklyn. Rona Reodica of HPD filed the plans. The development site also has an alternate address of 496 Sutter Avenue.

This year there have been 21 new building plans filed in Brownsville. For comparison, there were 17 new building plans filed in the neighborhood last year.

The plans, pre-filed on August 17, 2020, call for the construction of a 92-foot tall, nine-story, 189,907-square-foot residential building with 184 residential units.

The project is described in the filings as: construct new nine-story, mixed-use building as per plans filed.

The proposed development will be split between commercial space, residential space, and community facility space.

Per the plans, the ground floor will have commercial space, a play room, laundry and mail rooms, a support services room, and 15 dwelling units. The second floor will have 23 dwelling units, floors two through six will each have 24 dwelling units, the seventh floor will have 19 dwelling units, the eighth floor will have 16 dwelling units, and the ninth floor will have 15 dwelling units. The cellar of the building will have a multipurpose room, meeting room, office, laundry room, exercise room, classroom, domestic violence program space, and storage space.

Mark Ginsberg of Curtis + Ginsberg Architects is listed as the architect on the filing.

The Department of Housing Preservation and Development, on November 5, filed a permit application for construction of an 82-unit, 55,051-square-foot building at 107 East 123rd Street in East Harlem

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