Linden Boulevard Tower; Rendering credit JFa / Boyd Architecture
Construction has begun on a 20-story mixed-use residential tower at 123 Linden Boulevard —one of the tallest and largest new developments Flatbush has ever seen. Approved building permits detail a 230-foot tall tower comprised of 384 apartments and community facilities on lower floors. The 375,000-square-foot development will rise on a parking lot between Bedford and Rogers avenues where a former senior care provider, New York Congregational Community Services, once sat. The organization will continue to operate their 200-bed nursing and rehab facility, only directly behind the lot, with its proceeds funding their core mission to provide high quality health care to the elderly and the infirm.
Google Earth View of 123 Linden Boulevard via CityRealty
According to city records, the site was sold to Solomon Feder’s 123 Linden Holdings for $18.5 million in February 2016. Massey Knakal Realty Services handled the site's marketing, negotiating it down from the initial $20 million ask. The building’s designers, J Frankl Associates (JFa) have partner Charles Mallea as the applicant of record. A rendering published on the firm’s website corresponds to the permit filings, depicting a slab-shaped tower with setbacks at the second floor and cantilevers outward from the sixth floor. The rendering shows a dynamic arrangement of terraces —inset-projected volume that may make the structure an architectural icon for the whole neighborhood.
Per the firm’s page, “JFa explored how the building would take shape in multiple scales starting at the scale of the individual residential unit and user, expanding that scale to neighbors, the borough of Brooklyn, and NYC at large. The building facade was pushed and pulled to frame those views and emphasize the variety of scales.”
Permits state the building will hold a daycare center and medical offices on its first two floors, and a 288-car garage on its cellar and first levels. Floors 4-20 will hold the apartments, averaging 18-24 units per floor. According to the property marketing materials, the site is located outside the 421a exclusion area and therefore entitled to a 15-year tax abatement period. The site is located six blocks from Prospect Park and less than five blocks from the B, Q, 2, and 5 train stops at Church Avenue.
Per the firm’s page, “JFa explored how the building would take shape in multiple scales starting at the scale of the individual residential unit and user, expanding that scale to neighbors, the borough of Brooklyn, and NYC at large. The building facade was pushed and pulled to frame those views and emphasize the variety of scales.”
Permits state the building will hold a daycare center and medical offices on its first two floors, and a 288-car garage on its cellar and first levels. Floors 4-20 will hold the apartments, averaging 18-24 units per floor. According to the property marketing materials, the site is located outside the 421a exclusion area and therefore entitled to a 15-year tax abatement period. The site is located six blocks from Prospect Park and less than five blocks from the B, Q, 2, and 5 train stops at Church Avenue.
Approved zoning Diagram submitted to Department of Buildings
Construction underway at project site
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