A plan to construct a nine-story building with 72 units on Front Street in Vinegar Hill was yanked by the developer after City Councilman Steve Levin indicated he would follow the community board and Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams in rejecting a proposal to rezone that lot. Without his support, the project would not have passed a scheduled vote in the Council.
“This building would’ve been out of context as proposed. It was too big and too dense for this neighborhood,” Levin said Monday. “Vinegar Hill, for those that don’t know it because it’s a small little neighborhood, is an historic neighborhood that is low rise in character; a lot of 19th-century row houses.”
The developer had plans to build a rental building with 72 apartments altogether including 18 affordable units on the truck lot at 251 Front Street. The mixed-use building would have had nine stories, parking for 27 cars and stores on the ground floor.
