A stretch of Fourth Avenue in Park Slope has traded storefronts for scaffolding, with a plywood wall and a heap of broken brick now occupying 67–75 Fourth Avenue. Demolition of five low-rise buildings wrapped up this week, leaving a lone corner holdout still standing. The cleared lot, between St. Mark’s Place and Bergen Street, is set to be the base for a proposed 14-story residential project described in city permit filings. For the moment, the block is quiet behind the wooden fencing while the finer points of the project and its schedule get worked out.
According to New York YIMBY, plans call for a 145-foot-tall, roughly 88,943-square-foot building designed by Kao Hwa Lee Architects and developed by Shimon Kleinman. The project is expected to include about 99 rental apartments averaging 839 square feet, along with roughly 5,872 square feet of ground-floor commercial space. YIMBY’s on-site photos show the emptied lot tucked behind the sidewalk shed and note that five structures have come down while one corner building at Fourth Avenue and St. Mark’s Place remains.
Property records show that the larger assemblage that includes the site changed hands in a $24 million sale last September, according to a press release from broker Ariel Property Advisors. That release also points out that the parcel falls under the city’s Mandatory Inclusionary Housing program, a status that could shape any affordable housing commitments tied to the future building.
Industry filings reviewed by PincusCo show that a Department of Buildings application was submitted in mid-July 2025 under job number B01249173 for a new 14-story mixed-use development at 67 Fourth Avenue. Those records spell out the building program and internal amenities and indicate that the application has been filed but final permits had not yet been issued at the time of the report.
What’s planned
The building’s rendering, cited by New York YIMBY, shows a rectilinear structure with two large stepped setbacks, framed in earth-toned brick around recessed floor-to-ceiling windows. Upper floors are depicted with terraces and a glass curtain wall tucked behind the setbacks, while black metal panels wrap the ground floor. The design tops out with a roof deck and a short bulkhead. Based on the filings and the average unit size, the building would most likely deliver a mix of one- and two-bedroom rentals.
Timeline and next steps
For now, there is no public construction timeline, and the address remains in a pre-construction limbo while permits and financing line up. Public records from PincusCo indicate that the DOB application is on file, but groundwork and vertical construction have not yet been reported.
Neighbors and scale
The site sits within walking distance of Atlantic Avenue–Barclays Center station, a major transit hub served by the B, D, N, Q, R, 2, 3, 4 and 5 subway lines as well as the LIRR, putting the future residents on one of Brooklyn’s busiest commuter corridors. As Brooklyn Eagle noted when permits were first filed, the scale of the proposed 14-story building will stand in sharp contrast to the block’s older, low-rise profile, a familiar tension point in recent Park Slope development battles.
For now, the cleared lot is a very literal pile of evidence that development pressure along Fourth Avenue is not letting up, and a reminder that big projects often start with little more than dust and plywood. We will keep an eye on DOB filings and community notices to see when those demolition hoardings come down and real construction begins.
