Laundromat Faces Wrecking Ball Under Development Plan: Permit

FORT GREENE, BROOKLYN — A longtime, recently-shuttered laundromat could soon be demolished, paving the way for an 8-story apartment tower, permits show.

Plans to teardown Wash Cycle II, which sits on the corner of Myrtle and Carlton avenues near Fort Greene Park, were filed Monday with the Department of Buildings, but are still waiting approval as of March 24th.

After over a decade of operation, the laundromat shuttered last year, around the same time when plans were filed to replace the facility with an 85-foot-tall apartment tower, according to plans that are also awaiting DOB approval.

The proposed apartment building would have eight floors with mostly apartments — 50 units as per plans filed in March — as well as some room for commercial space in the cellar and ground floor.

Located several blocks away from the Clinton-Washington Avenues subway station, the building won't have parking spaces, as planned — a design that meets local politicians' recent demand that developers stop building parking lots in new buildings in transit-dense areas.

Rawlings Architects, a firm responsible for several new residential projects citywide, is listed as the could-be apartment's architect.

The building's ownership appears not to have changed since 1998, when the deed for 340 Myrtle Avenue acquired by F & D Myrtle Realty Co., a corporation that's still listed as the owner on the demolition permits (alongside Marisol Diaz).