Long-Blighted Ocean Avenue Lot To Become 28-Unit Residential Development

A long overgrown and litter strewn lot at 2443 Ocean Avenue will soon become the construction site for a planned six-story, 28-unit residential development.

The developer, Bernard Weingarten, of Mesivta Haichel HaTorah, has owned the property since 1975, according to New York YIMBY, which first reported on the plans.

Though the property, near Avenue T, is currently the site of a long boarded-up brick building, a haven for graffiti and illegal dumping, Weingarten is finally reactivating it, planning 27,000 square feet of residential space, or nearly 1,000 square feet per unit.

The plans, submitted yesterday and still awaiting Department of Buildings approval, call for a 56-foot-tall building, covering 60 percent of the 9,350 square foot lot. There will be six units on each of the floors, from the second to the fifth, with the sixth floor having four units.

On the first floor, the building will have paring for 23 cars, and storage in the cellar for 14 bicycles.

The building is being designed and built by Douglas Pulaski of Bricolage Architecture and Design – a firm previously penalized for flouting Department of Building regulations and abusing self-certification privileges, and was again fined after a Bricolage construction site in Brighton Beach collapsed in 2011, killing one and injuring four others.