Rendering of proposed buildings at 931 Carroll Street and 40 Crown Street. Image Credit: CP VI Crown Heights, LLC/NYC CPC.

If approved, the rezoning will make way for construction of over 500 new apartments in Crown Heights. On September 26, 2018, the City Planning Commission held a public hearing on a rezoning application for Franklin Avenue in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn. The rezoning would allow construction of two new 16-story buildings at 40 Crown Street and 931 Carroll Street. Both buildings are a block east of the Brooklyn Botanical Garden. (read more…)

Administration building designed by McKim,Mead & White. On March 13, 2007, Landmarks voted unanimously to designate the Laboratory Administration Building within the Brooklyn Botanical Garden. Constructed in phases between 1912 and 1917, the building originally housed a physiological and elementary laboratory along with photography dark rooms and research space. Currently, the building houses the Garden’s library and administrative offices, as well as an auditorium for lectures and performances.

Designed by McKim, Mead & White’s William Kendall, the building replicated churches in the Lombardy region of Italy, built in the shape of a Greek cross with a cupola at the center. Some of Kendall’s other prominent projects include the New York City Municipal Building and the United States General Post Office, both individual landmarks. Together with the Olmsted Brothers’ firm, McKim, Mead & White designed the Garden’s buildings and layout. (read more…)