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Developer files for a four-story, four-unit building on a vacant Bushwick lot at 1242 Madison St.

The Nov. 6 Department of Buildings application is in plan review. City records list the 18-by-100-foot lot as vacant land; a three-family house approved there in 2007 was never built.

Two images: a long block of two- and three-story brick row houses with stoops on DeKalb Avenue in Bushwick; over it, the Department of Buildings' filing for a new building at 1242 Madison Street, with proposed stories 4 and dwelling units 4 highlighted.

Developer files for a four-story, four-unit building on a vacant Bushwick lot at 1242 Madison St.

The Nov. 6 Department of Buildings application is in plan review. City records list the 18-by-100-foot lot as vacant land; a three-family house approved there in 2007 was never built.

Developer files for a four-story, four-unit building on a vacant Bushwick lot at 1242 Madison St.
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A developer has applied to build a four-story, four-apartment building on a vacant lot at 1242 Madison St. in Bushwick. The new-building application was filed with the city’s Department of Buildings on Friday, Nov. 6. It describes the project as a “4 story 4 family with penthouse + cellar,” and as of Nov. 9 it was in plan examiner review, according to the department’s DOB NOW filing records on NYC Open Data.

The application, job B01475661-I1, lists the owner as Sharon Cohen of Diamond Real Estate Partners. The applicant is Jeffrey Bell, a registered architect with the firm JBA in Toms River, N.J. The application proposes 3,770.79 square feet of total construction floor area. The city’s public data does not list a proposed building height.

No permit has been issued. Plan review is the stage at which the department examines the drawings, and the project cannot begin construction until the plans are approved and a permit is issued. The department’s open data showed no approved permits for the lot as of Nov. 11.

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