Yitzchok Schweid submits plans for 44-unit building in Williamsburg
230 Kent Avenue diagram (Credit - Ralph Kowalczyk architect via DOB)
Yitzchok Schweid submitted a new building construction project for a 44-unit, 32,541 square-foot residential (R-2) building at 230 Kent Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The plan was filed with the New York City Department of Buildings on June 18, 2025 under job number B01238121. It calls for the construction of an eight-story building. The project is described in the filing as: subject building is an eight-story building. The architect is Issac & Stern Architects, P.C.
The property
The parcel has frontage of 57 feet and is 102 feet deep with a total lot size of 5,862 square feet. The zoning is M1-4/R7X which allows for up to 2 times floor area ratio (FAR) for manufacturing and up to 5 times FAR for residential with inclusionary housing. The city-designated market value for the property in 2022 is $523,000. The most recent loan totaled $16 million and was provided to Mier Schweid by S3 Capital on May 20, 2025.
Prior sales and revenue
This property was sold for $2.5 million on October 23, 2017.
Violations and lawsuits
According to city public data, the property has not received any significant violations in the last year.
There were no lawsuits or bankruptcies filed against the property for the past 24 months.
The neighborhood
In Williamsburg, The bulk, or 39 percent of the 50.4 million square feet of commercial built space are elevator buildings, with walkup buildings next occupying 25 percent of the space. In sales, Williamsburg has the 4th highest sale turnover among other neighborhoods in the city with $1.9 billion in sales volume in the last two years. For development, Williamsburg has near average amount of major developments among other neighborhoods and is the 2nd highest in Brooklyn. It had 3 million square feet of commercial and multi-family construction under development in the last two years, which represents 6 percent of the neighborhood’s built space.
The block
On this tax block, PincusCo has identified the owners of two of the two commercial properties representing zero square feet of the zero square feet. The two identified owners are Consolidated Edison and Mier Isumor Schweid. On the tax block, there was one new building construction project filed totaling 32,541 square feet. It is a 44-unit, 32,541 square-foot residential (R-2) building submitted by Yitzchok Schweid and filed by Kent Riverview Llc Kent Riverview Llc with plans filed June 18, 2025 and it has not been permitted yet.
The surrounding
Within a 400-foot radius of 232 Kent Avenue, PincusCo identified two commercial real estate items of interests occurred over the past 24 months. Of those two items, one was in new building development. It was a new building permit application filed on January 31, 2025 for a 38,120-square-foot residential (R-2) building with 56 residential units at 62 North 1st Street. One of those two items was a loan which Two Trees Management borrowed $75 million from Wells Fargo secured by the zero-square-foot development site (V1) on 87 River Street and two other properties on November 13, 2024.
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