Adorable Kensington Cottage Set to Be Squashed by Huge New Apartment Complex

KENSINGTON, NY — A tiny cottage along Ocean Parkway, near the southern edge of Kensington, will be demolished and replaced by an eight-story apartment complex with 38 units, if plans filed by the property owner last week are approved by city officials.

The new apartment building would open up 26,056 square feet of residential space at 567 Ocean Parkway, according to city records.

Department of Building (DOB) staffers began reviewing the plan on Nov. 15.

Currently sitting on the 5,600-square-foot lot is a sweet little detached, two-story home that previously housed an Orthodox Jewish school, or yeshiva, records show. (Records also show that the yeshiva operators were slapped with city violations for "storing school buses on driveway" in 2005 and "illegal parking of school buses in residential zone" in 2008.)

The property's owner is Sam Klein; his small development company, or LLC, is based in next-door Borough Park. Klein bought the site from Yeshiva and Mesivta Torah Temimah for more than $3 million according to New York YIMBY.

Asher Hershkowitz is listed as the architect for the new apartment building. The average size of each unit will be around 685 square feet, records show.

Klein also has plans to build an 11-car garage into the development.

In a phone call with Hershkowitz, the architect said he's unsure of the construction timeline at 567 Ocean Parkway.

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