This is another impressive entry that is a favorite. Sometimes, when I am walking along Ocean Avenue, it reminds my of my walks along Central Park West, in the days when we lived on the park block in the eighties. This one is 591, on the east side of the street between Albemarle and Church. Though I do admit, there is nothing to admire about the wires.
Yesterday I rambled around west of Flatbush. On Woodruff Ave, right around the corner from Flatbush on the north side of the street, I was a little surprised to see this builiding. In general the state of disrepair is usually not so evident in buildings this close to Flatbush.
It appears there are still residents in the building, at least on the ground floor. Air conditioners are in the windows. Upper floors look really bad, but I think this could be turned into something very nice. The original decorative glass is still in evidence on the ground floor, in 5 of the six windows.
Property Shark has this as being built in 1931, a tax lein acquisition in August 2002 from the City, it appears to have changed hands January 2006 to Tratt Management & Dev, LLC with David Tepper as party2. Also it looks to have been an SRO with 43 units on record which is pretty amazing to think about.
Given the state of disrepair this is another building I am worried will be a future teardown. It would be great to recover this and turn it into eight condos or co-ops — or even rentals. Very sad indeed, it is so disturbing to think what it could be replaced with.
