Owners Propose 6 New Apartment Buildings, Schools In Bed-Stuy

BED-STUY, NY — A multi-site development could bring Bed-Stuy six new residential buildings and three schools to Bed-Stuy — but it would require rezoning, according to city records and a report.

A group of owners recently submitted a proposal to rezone five blocks on Park Avenue between Warsoff Place and Sandford Street and Bedford Avenue to allow for new schools and housing.

The project, first reported by TheRealDeal, would bring 560 new residential units to the neighborhood, according to the city's Planning department.

City Council Member Lincoln Restler will largely control whether the proposed rezoning of manufacturing plots to residential moves forward, TheRealDeal reported.

“We are broadly supportive of expanded residential and community facility space in this area to meet the needs of our rapidly growing community,” a representative of City Council member Lincoln Restler told TheRealDeal, though the representative was not specifically discussing the Park Avenue project.

Six new and expanded residential buildings would 560 units within the project area, including a new 11-story building on Park Avenue between Spencer and Walworth streets.

The project would include residential buildings at the following locations:

• An eight-story building on Park Avenue between Spencer and Bedford streets (517 Park Ave).
• A nine-story building between Spencer and Walworth streets (533 Park Ave).
• A seven-story building between Warsoff Place and Walworth Street (528 Park Ave).
• A seven-story building on Walworth and Spencer streets (520 Park Ave).

The project would include a five-story private girls high school at 49 Spencer Street and a five-story K-12 private school at 86-88 Walworth Street.

On 76-96 Sandford Street and 79-89 Walworth Street, a new five-story building would expand Central United Talmudic Academy, a K-12 school at 84 Sandford St., plans show. The project would also make legal an existing school.