Lev Kheyfets files plans for 14-unit building in Brighton Beach

Lev Kheyfets submitted a new building construction project for a 14-unit, 11,029 square-foot residential (R-2) building at 2921 Brighton 4th Street in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. The plan was filed with the New York City Department of Buildings on November 18, 2022 under job number B08042136. It calls for the construction of a six-story building. The project is described in the filing as: proposed new residential building with 14 dwelling units. The architect is Kindo Holdings, LLC.

The property

The property is owned by Artur Koshchak. The parcel has two buildings with frontage of 108 feet and is 40 feet deep with a total lot size of 4,435 square feet. The zoning is R6 which allows for up to 2.43 times floor area ratio (FAR) for residential. The city-designated market value for the property in 2022 is $344,000.

Prior sales and revenue

This property was sold by Jeffrey L. Garber for $1.4 million to Artur Koshchak on August 22, 2022.

Violations and lawsuits

According to city public data, the property has received one DOB violation, $1,875 in ECB penalties in the last year.

There were no lawsuits or bankruptcies filed against the property for the past 24 months.

The neighborhood

In Brighton Beach, the majority, or 58 percent of the 7.8 million square feet of commercial built space are elevator buildings, with walkup buildings next occupying 12 percent of the space. In sales, Brighton Beach has near average sales volume among other neighborhoods with $90.5 million in sales volume in the last two years and is the 34th highest in Brooklyn. For development, Brighton Beach has near average amount of major developments among other neighborhoods and is the 23rd highest in Brooklyn. It had 617,362 square feet of commercial and multi-family construction under development in the last two years, which represents 8 percent of the neighborhood’s built space.

The block

On this tax block, PincusCo has identified the owners of two of the 38 commercial properties representing 2,676 square feet of the 34,641 square feet. The two identified owners are Feratovic Hajrija and Artur Koshchak. On the tax block, there were six new building construction projects totaling 32,104 square feet. The largest is a 14-unit, 11,029 square-foot residential (R-2) building submitted by Lev Kheyfets and filed by Lev Kheyfets with plans filed November 18, 2022 and it has not been permitted yet. The second largest is a five-unit, 7,051 square-foot residential (R-2) building submitted by Bukaie Moshe with plans filed March 9, 2016 and it has not been permitted yet.

The surrounding

Within a 400-foot radius of 41 Brighton 4 Court, PincusCo identified one commercial real estate item of interests occurred over the past 24 months. It was a loan which Sea Crest Office borrowed $28.8 million from Sterling National Bank secured by the 0-square-foot, one-unit industrial (I6) on 2857 Brighton 3rd Street and nine other properties on May 19, 2021.

Direct link to the property’s ACRIS page and link to DOB NOW portal.