What's happening at 323 Prospect Place?

I doubt that it's getting razed. Just completely gutted, I reckon.

It was on the market for a long time...

When I passed by a few days back, they had the windows open and they were throwing stuff in to a garbage bin below. Looked like they were stripping it to the studs.

I'm guessing that the buyer is renovating... that or the seller has had trouble moving it in it's state and he's renovating...

NYC DOB website description:

http://tinyurl.com/26p3j6

Job Description:
THIS APPLICATION IS FILED TO PROPOSE A VERTICAL EXTESION AND TO CONVERT EXISTING THREE FAMILY INTO A TWO FAMILY AND OBTAIN A NEW CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY. PLUMBING WORK FILED UNDER ALTERATION APPLICATION#

Job Description:
THIS APPLICATION IS FILED FOR INTERIOR DEMOLITION, TO REMOVE AND REPLACE BATHROOMS AND KITCHENS ON 1ST, 2ND, AND 3RD FLOORS AND REPLACE AND RELOCATE KITCHENS ON FIRST AND SECOND FLOOR AND TO DO GENERAL PARTITION WORK. NO CHANGE TO USE, EGRESS, OR OCCUPANCY FILED UNDER THIS APPLICATION.

Subject: Sad about this

I'm really sad to hear the owner of this building sold. I used to see him every morning when I lived on Washington avenue---he'd give me the black power fist every morning...no joke...I bet he moved down south....

If you're still wondering, my wife and i bought 323 Prospect Place and we are doing a gut renovation.
I also loved the interesting angle and history associated with the building and wouldn't think of tearing it down. The structure was surprisingly sound considering its pre 1906. Unfortunately the inside was a mess of misplaced walls and in need of a complete overhaul. Hopefully it turns out ok!

this place would of been my first choice. love how the house is lay out plus parking. but when i saw it they were asking for too much. my family brought a investment place in north slope instead.

What is the history of this building? You mentioned that it is interesting, please share if you want. Thanks.

if you're still wondering, my wife and i bought 323 Prospect Place and we are doing a gut renovation.

Good luck pravrama with your gut reno. May your home project give Prospect btw. Underhill and Washington a much-needed kick in the pants.
It now has the superb Underhill Playground, the new market on the corner, and as far as I can tell, very friendly residents along the south side of the street. Now can someone please buy, renovate, or bulldoze the glut of abandoned bldgs. on the north side of the site! They're a blight, man.

I must have missed that... why did the DOB shut down construction. I thought it odd that the protective wood walls were taken down. Hard to believe that if construction is shut down, it just open to the public to deal with. Someone could go climbing in there and do who knows what. That's why the abdoned building down the way was totally closed up. Totally sad. AND on top of that, most of Washington and Prospect are empty storefronts. I was really hoping that Washington would turn into what Vanderbilt is... a bit of good stuff. Guess it will take a bit more time.

(PS sorry for misspellings... I'm a baaaad speller).

Prospect Place is arguably the nicest block in PH from Flatbush to Underhill...and is also quite nice btw. Washington and Classen.

WTF is up with this block? It's unfathomable to me that this parcel of land has yet to be turned into condo(s) a la 475 Sterling Place. I've mentioned this before—when guests are in I walk them west on Park Place to avoid this mess...

Subject: why this house is on a diagonal

For anyone who was wondering, the theory about why this house (and a few other immediate neighbors) lie on a diagonal to the regular street grid is kinda interesting. Most of the neighborhood history buffs I've spoken to agree that it's because before the street grid that currently exists (and that dates to about the 1840s or a little earlier), the old Flatbush Turnpike came up through the nabe at a completely angle. During the early 19th century, this road -- which dates to Indian times -- took a sharp left somewhere near the current intersection of Flatbush and St Marks and then meandered eastward. If you look at old ward maps of the area (http://www.wardmaps.com/viewmap.php?map_id=906), you can quite clearly see that the original farm lots appear to be laid out according to this old route. Once Flatbush was redirected and the new new street grid was superimposed, some of these old lots continued to exist but now they appear as diagonal to the new grid. Clearly this house doesn't date to the 1840s or before. But whoever built it may have simply acquired one of these anachronistic lots. Most of the new lots, of course, were owned by the kinds of fairly small-scale speculative house builders who would build 4-6-10 or more houses in one fell swoop and are responsible for most of the rowhouse construction in 19th century Brownstone Brooklyn.

i call second dibs.