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Developing story
Residential 14-story tower proposed to
replace Brighton Beach art deco building
BY ROSE ADAMS
Developers are looking to tear
down a Chase Bank building in Brighton
Beach to make way for a tall residential
residential tower along Coney
Island Avenue, according to land use
fi lings.
The building — slated for 1002
Brighton Beach Ave. — would house
156 apartments, as well as offi ce and
commercial space.
About one quarter of the apartments
would be earmarked as “affordable,”
reserved for residents making
between 60 and 80 percent of the
federally-determined Area’s Median
Income — which for a single person
ranges between roughly $48,000 and
$64,000 a year, and for a family of three
ranges from $61,000 to $82,000.
The development comes as part of
Mayor Bill de Blasio’s ambitious goal
to create 300,000 units of affordable
housing by 2026.
Currently, southern Brooklyn lags
behind the rest of the borough and city
in building income-targeted housing,
with high-rise buildings sprouting up
across the northern parts of Brooklyn
and Queens, the southern half of the
Bronx, and parts of Manhattan.
The city’s affordable housing program
forces developers to reserve units
for residents who make within a certain
income bracket in order to apply for the
zoning changes necessary to construct
their building.
Area Councilmember Chaim
Deutsch will have outsized power over
the building’s approval, as council members
tend to defer to the local representative
when voting on land use changes.
One local activist said that while the
neighborhood needs more affordable
housing, particularly for seniors, the
new building could come at the expense
of some historic local architecture.
“The building itself is worthy of inclusion
on the National Register of Historic
Places, according to the Brighton
Beach rezoning report prepared by the
Department of City Planning in 2009,”
said Craig Hammerman, a Brighton
Beach resident and the former Community
Board 6 district manager. “It’s
a wonderful Art Deco institution in a
neighborhood generally lacking in interesting
architectural features.”
The building’s interior also contains
some noteworthy artifacts, including a
mural from the 1930s that depicts Abraham
Lincoln greeting a diverse crowd of
people from different cultures.
“Inside the bank there are some wonderful
old murals that would seem to
date back to the FDR Administration.
I hope the developer is required to preserve
these wonderful neighborhood
features,” Hammerman said.
The building’s destruction would
Developers are seeking to build a 14-story
tower on the corner of Brighton Beach and
Coney Island avenues. Gerald J. Caliendo
also displace the Brighton Neighborhood
Association, a community advocacy
group that has been active for
nearly 50 years.
“We’ve been here for 44 years, since
1977,” said Pat Singer, the president of
the association and a member of Community
Board 13. Since rents have skyrocketed
in Brighton Beach, Singer
said she was unsure where the association
would land next. “It’s kind of heartbreaking
to think about it.”
The proposed Brighton Beach building
would contain retail space on the
ground fl oor with entrances from both
avenues, and the second fl oor would
house space for offi ces, all of which
would be covered in a modern, transparent
facade.
Under the building, residents and
visitors could park inside a garage
with 110 parking spots and 79 spots
for bikes.
In order to build the tower, the developer,
Queens-based Platinum Realty
Associates, must request two land
use changes through the city’s intensive
land use review process, known
as ULURP, which usually takes about
seven months to complete.
During the process, members of
Community Board 13, along with the
borough president, will grant their
advisory approval or disapproval of
the tower before the land use application
goes before the City Planning
Commission and the City Council for
a binding vote.
The tower is just one of several residential
buildings rising across the peninsula,
which has seen a boom of real estate
interest in recent years. On the other
side of Surf Avenue in Coney Island, billionaire
John Catsimatidis has built a
two-tower luxury development called
Ocean Drive with potentially three
more towers on the way, and across the
street from Gargiulo’s, a luxury developer
is building a 26-story building that
spans almost the entire block.
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