New Apartments Rising In Low-Density Windsor Terrace Block
A Brooklyn-based real estate company filed plans this week to build a three-story residential building on 19th Street in Windsor Terrace, and raze the single-story warehouse on the lot, reports YIMBY.
The new building from SPB Realty and architect Bricolage Designs is proposed as a three-story, 10-unit, 10,931-square-ft residential building located at 560 19th Street between 10th Avenue and Terrace Place.
The application follows the approval of a similar building to rise in the vacant lot next door at 564 19th Street, another three-story apartment building by the same architect, Bricolage Designs. That plan was approved by the Department of Buildings in March.
Located in an R5 residential zone, which are characterized by low building heights and medium density, this 19th Street block is occupied by warehouses, detached and attached two-story duplexes, and flanked by a highway overpass on the western side. The two new apartment buildings, one approved and one pending, would be among the highest-density residential buildings on the block, adding a total of 20 new apartments.
The typical Floor Area Ratio (FAR) — which analyzes a building’s total floor space relative to the area of land on which it sits — for a R5 zone is 1.25. However, the new building proposal at 560 East 19th Street asks for a slightly higher FAR, 1.65, according to the DOB.
The realty company bought the 6,000 square foot warehouse in 2006 for $1.3 million, according to PropertyShark. The warehouse, which previously held local plumbing company A & W Cooling, was built in 1931, estimates PropertyShark.
We were curious about what the neighborhood looked like during the time that the warehouse was built, and while we didn’t find anything from the 19th Street block, we found this interesting photo from 1930, of a Public School annex just a few blocks away:
The proposed apartments are seven blocks from the 15th Street-Prospect Park stop on the F and G trains, and only one block from the Brooklyn Urban Garden School charter school and the Stanley S. Lamm preschool.
Additional reporting by Sarah Crean.