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As the Brooklyn Navy Yard irons out a five-million-square-foot tech-driven expansion anticipated to bring 10,000 new jobs to the former shipbuilding hub, the low-slung residential streets between Flushing and Myrtle Avenues are poised to see an infusion of new investment. In recent years, the once-overlooked area bisected by the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (gross) has seen many of its brick, wood, and vinyl townhouses restored while regeneration schemes such as Navy Green usurp underutilized tracts of land. Just off the thriving Myrtle Avenue, home to a healthy array of mom-and-pop stores, Craig Nassi's BCN Development is building a six-family condominium at 137 Carlton Avenue in Fort Greene.
The relatively young firm of INOA Architecture are the building's designers. Founded by Murat Mutlu in 2010, the firm's niche is said to be creating contemporary functionalist spaces that integrate multiple functions and constraints within a unifying formal system. The firm has a number of Modernist projects in Brooklyn such as 78 and 205 Freeman Street, as well as a number of larger projects throughout northern New Jersey.
137 Calrton Avenue via INOA Architecture (Rendering credit: Pax Brooklyn)
The ground-up development will stand five floors tall, in-line with the pre-war walk-up buildings that pepper the block. The project's uppermost floor will slope upward, yielding a terrace and skylight for the crowning duplex apartment. Large windows with vertical slats, beveled corners, and deep demarcations between floors aim to enliven the austere, mostly concrete form.
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Three of the five apartments will be duplexes and according to INOA, the building design of stacked rectangular boxes are strategically deformed on every floor to accommodate various functions. Newly-released interior renderings show the window slats will not only result in more privacy but create an interesting play of light within the spaces.
As of August 2018, foundations were still going in for the building. Next door to the site, at 135 Carlton, a two-story house was recently enlarged into a three-floor, three-unit condominium. After a price reduction of 10% to $1,749,000, the final sponsor unit, a four-bedroom top-floor home is in-contract. There are just a handful of condos available in Fort Greene (13 as of early December) blending to a median price per square foot of $1,224. Two-bedrooms come in at a median of $1.625 million.
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Ondel Hylton
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