Century-Old Home To Be Razed For Apartments On Lenox Road
Another centennial Victorian home near Prospect Park is set to be swapped with a multi-story apartment building, based on Department of Buildings plans filed last week.
Though the fence has been up since winter, permits were just filed for a seven-story apartment building at 100 Lenox Road between Bedford and Flatbush Avenues, estimated to include 32 apartments each averaging 680 square feet, according to YIMBY.
The planned apartment complex will be smaller than its eight-story, 86,622 square-foot neighbor at 2100 Bedford Avenue, whose 78 apartments each average 774 square feet, and towers on the sites of three demolished Bedford Avenue homes.
Property Shark estimates that the soon to be razed two-and-a-half story detached house at 100 Lenox Road was built in 1899. YIMBY calls the house ‘iconic’, though not the most beautiful home in the neighborhood, “one of several that lends an air of dignity to this stretch of Bedford in Prospect Lefferts Gardens and northern Flatbush.”
The new owner, Moshe Tal, bought the 5,500-square-foot property for $2,600,000 in October 2015, according to PropertyShark.
Similar to a Foster Avenue home that was knocked down last year, 100 Lenox Road sits in the R7A “contextual district”, rezoned in 2009, where new buildings are capped at 80 feet (or eight stories) tall. Also, the property is in an inclusionary housing zone, so Tal has the option to build 4,000 square feet larger in exchange for renting 20 percent of the units at below-market rates.
Development has spiked in Flatbush and Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, with a recent neighborhood icon at 111 Clarkson Avenue, the “berserk eclectic” Victorian mansion, replaced by an apartment complex two years ago, reports Brownstoner.
Rapid development can be hard to picture on a broad scale. Luckily, neighbor Jacob Garchik made this incredible map posted on The Q at Parkside last April, to visualize exactly how these changes affect the visual landscape. Zoom in and click on each bubble for more details and links to permits filed for each building.