333-space parking garage to be located at the former Board of Education headquarters. The Planning Commission approved an application by Two Trees Management and EDC for a 333-space public parking garage to be located within the 300,000-square-foot, former Board of Education headquarters at 110 Livingston Street in Brooklyn. Two Trees plans to convert the 1925 building and construct an 88,000-square-foot addition for 308 residential units and a 6,000-square-foot community theater. Two Trees will maintain the building’s distinct facade, designed by McKim, Mead & White.

The property is bounded by Boerum Place, and Livingston, Court and Schermerhorn Streets. Access to the proposed 55,560- square-foot garage would be provided by a new curb cut on Livingston Street and the existing curb cut on Schermerhorn Street. To satisfy the parking requirement triggered by the addition, 42 of the 333 parking spaces would be dedicated to the new residential units and there would be 17 reservoir spaces. (read more…)