Rendering of proposed four-story residential building (center) at 375 Stuyvesant Avenue in Brooklyn; View from Decatur Street. Image Credit: LPC/DXA Studio

Applicants failed to convince Landmarks Commissioners on the appropriateness of the project. On October 2, 2018, the Landmarks Preservation Commission held a public hearing on a certificate of appropriateness for the construction of a four-story residential building at 375 Stuyvesant Avenue, located in the Stuyvesant Heights Historic District in Brooklyn. The applicants proposed to demolish and reconstruct an existing garage on a different portion of the lot to make room for the proposed building. (read more…)

Bedford Stuyvesant/Expanded Stuyvesant Heights Historic District. Image Credit: LPC.

Landmarks staff recommended removal of two properties from the district, but Commission voted to designate the district as proposed. On April 16, 2013, the Landmarks Preservation Commission voted to designate the Bedford Stuyvesant/Expanded Stuyvesant Heights Historic District in Brooklyn. The district is generally bounded by Halsey and Macon Streets to the north, Fulton Street to the South, Malcolm X Boulevard to the east, and Tompkins Avenue to the west. The new district surrounds the 1971-designated Stuyvesant Heights Historic District, and is comprised of approximately 825 buildings.

The residential area was developed primarily within the period between 1880 and 1920, though some mid-19th-century wood-frame houses still stand in the district.  The area is largely characterized by speculatively built rowhouses, in the Queen Anne, neo-Grec, Romanesque Revival and Renaissance Revival styles. The 1890s also saw the construction of several four- and five-story apartment buildings known as “French flats.” Significant institutional buildings in the district include the Bethany Baptist Church and the former Sumner Avenue Baptist Church.

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