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Old Posted Dec 15, 2016, 12:22 AM
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New development rarely happens in Vinegar Hill, a tightly zoned, tiny neighborhood wedged between Dumbo, the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and the East River waterfront. But the owner of a parking lot 251 Front Street hopes to get an upzoning to construct a nine-story apartment building there, according to documents filed with the Department of City Planning.

The proposal calls for a 110,795-square-foot building with 95 apartments. In exchange for the rezoning, the developer would rent 23 units at below-market rates to families making an average of 60 percent of the Area Median Income, or $48,960 for a family of three. The project would also include an underground garage with room for 35 cars, which is required under the requested zoning.

The developer hopes to boost the zoning from R6B to R7A. The rezoning would double the density and height of what can be built on the lot, bringing the floor area ratio to 4.6 and capping a new building at 90 feet tall.

Think Architecture and Design, based in Downtown Brooklyn, will design the project. The firm also created the rendering above, which we pulled from planning documents. The building might fit in better with its row house neighbors if it were clad in red brick instead of the the greyish brown depicted in the rendering. Still, it’s reminiscent of most new construction nearby in Dumbo.
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