270 Saint Marks Avenue: Review and Ratings

Review of 270 Saint Marks Avenue by Carter Horsley

This small, red-brick development at 268-270 St. Mark’s Avenue between Vanderbilt and Underhill avenues in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, was built by MRM Development Corporation of which Boaz Gilad is a principal in 2012. 

It has six condominium apartments.

It is known as The Mark.

Suresh Manchanda is the architect.

It is a few blocks north of the entrance to Prospect Park.

Bottom Line

The red-brick building has nothing to do, sadly, with an exciting, earlier rendering for the project that promised an extremely attractive, white low-rise building in the style of Le Corbusier that would have been a large addition to the borough’s modernity with its deeply indented balconies, slightly projected apartment outlines and a pleasant assortment of rectangular windows of various sizes despite its modest size.

Description

In a comment by “irvingberlin” on an article with a  photograph of the red-brick building Mach 18, 2013 at brownstoner.com, a commenter urged the building to cover “the con ed meters…somehow please,” referring to two groups of four circular elements that looked very much like Con Ed meters on the façade’s first floor.

Some windows on the second and third floors have red-brick surrounds and the first floor is embellished with dark gray metal panels at the edges and in the center.

Amenities

The building has a garage and storage room

Apartments

The triplex penthouse is a three-bedroom unit with a 25-foot-wide living room on the lower floor with a 15-foot-long open kitchen with a long pass-through on the lowest level and a bedroom with a 15-foot-long study on the middle level with large front and back terraces and a large roof.

The townhouse unit is a three-bedroom unit with a 16-foot-long living room with an open kitchen with an island and a 36-foot-long rear yard off the master bedroom.