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Demolition Plans Filed for Two Crown Heights Houses

Plans to demolish a pair of two-family homes on a quiet leafy street in Crown Heights were filed and approved by the city’s department of buildings. The properties were marketed recently as great development site that would allow 16,856 of buildable square feet.

The adjoining properties are located on Sullivan Place, which is a quiet street nestled between Empire Boulevard and Montgomery Street and begins from Nostrand Avenue and ends at Washington Avenue. The beginning of the block is just around the corner from the Beis Rivkah High school on Crown Street.

The first property, 262 Sullivan Place, was sold by Mary Moore in December 2014 to “262 Sullivan Pl LLC” for $500,000. A search through city deed records shows that the “president” of the LLC to be Moshe Yehuda Simpson who three months later turned around and sold the property to “Park Slope Associates Holdings 26 LLC” for $997,000.

Meanwhile, the other property, 264 Sullivan Place, was sold by Anether Adams in October of 2014 to “Yavine LLC” for $496,000 then was also flipped to “Park Slope Associates Holdings 26 LLC” in March of 2015.

Both “Yavine LLC” and “Park Slope Associates Holdings 26 LLC” have the same address – 79 Water Mill Lane in Great Neck, NY – and appear to be owned by Isaac Aghelian, who is listed as the LLC’s “managing member”.

Though on the demolition permits that were file with the New York City’s Department of Buildings on September 23rd the owner is listed as Mendel Gold under the business name “264 Sullivan Pl Group LLC” with their address at 164 Clymer Street in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn.

According to an article by DNAinfo, both properties were marketed last summer for $2.8 million by CPEX Real Estate — according to a listing first spotted by Brooklynian.com — but have since been taken off the market without selling, said CPEX broker James O’Neill.

Both homes are zoned R7-1, a designation with no specific height limit, given enough open space within a lot. The CPEX listing indicates the lot would allow a building of up to 16,856 square feet, approximately three times the size of the existing two houses.

O’Neill couldn’t say whether another entity is planning to purchase the properties or what kind of project may be planned on the site. An inquiry to the “264 Sullivan Pl Group” representative was not returned.

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27 Comments

  • CHer

    How can we have complaints against Satmar and other developers, when its our very own who sell and rent to goyim. –

    Destroying our shcuna one house at a time.

    • Anonymous

      Where is the holy crown heights community council??? Young families are suffering from lack of affordable housing. PEOPLE WHERE IS YOUR SENCE OF RESPONSIBILIY ?? FOR A FEW DOLLARS YOU SELL OUT YOUR PEOPLE?? YOU CAN BE MORE SUCESSFUL BY DOING CHESSED!!

  • Relax #1

    Just relax dude, it’s a free country. Move to the USSR of you don’t like it here.

  • 2#1

    1. We can have complaints against Satmar….

    2. it is true that our very own rent to goyim not so sure though about selling…
    and since when is Sullivan Pl Prime CH I bet you most people in ch never heard of that block…..

  • logical

    to CHer
    didnt you know when its all about making personal (profits) monies, one may according to halacha cheat steal and do anything possible to make as much as possible, but only on one condition, when you get to shul, you must shukel hard by davaning, and claim the fame of a bit Tzaddik and a major Baal Tzedaka with loads of photo ops,

    my my i am surprised you didnt know this,,,,

    how truly sad this is. cheating a homeowner selling to goyim etc, pathetic,

    (obviously my first part is all sarcastic for those who need a notification of it)

    • Conrad eidelman

      Thank you for informing us that you were sarcastic, we would have not known other wise. Sir you are a wise and intelligent individual, may you be blessed.

  • let ppl live...and make money

    I am so confused as to what this whole “investigation” is all about? and more so the buyers, seller & Developers….

    Have they committed a crime? sure sounds like some big time murder investigation….

    ppl making money!!!!! hopefully Jews – if a non jew was making the money that would make ppl happy?

    A Posheter yid

  • Those Flipping Flippers

    A person who flips houses is a vile excuse for a human being who is picking at the carcass of Crown Heights.

    Reb Shimshon Stock had them pegged back in 2006, he called them what they are – a bunch of flipping flippers.

    Years later this rings truer then ever, the Wilhelms, the Okunovs the Greismans and Lezzels and now the Simpsons too. They are picking at the last few scraps of meat left of the bones that once was Crown Heights.

    In his letter Shimshon wrote the story of the Rebbe no allowing the purchase of the Union Street homes behind 770 so to not set a precedent – yet here are these pieces of filth doing just that.

    And now when there is a mass exodus to neighborhoods all across the country and housing is entirely untouchable in this neighborhood do we begin to see the severity of what has happened – and it already is too late.

    http://crownheights.info/op-ed/2273/open-letter-from-shimshon-stock-flipping-houses/

  • Yossi

    People flip houses all the time. I assume the original owners audio mage a few bucks I the process.

  • About Time

    rest a sure that all this “permits” are obtained by favors and payouts.
    its ok to deal and make money BUT

    if you want to make money on the becks of peoples housing it will come back to byte you big time.

    find some better business and don’t mess up with peoples life.

  • CHer

    Let me clarify…
    There is nothing wrong with making money, and it is indeed a free country.
    But, it is unheard of that in frum community our very own will do something like this , where does one expect their own children to live? who their neighbors will be ?

    jews have always tried to keep their neighborhood to be affordable for fellow jews, and be helpfull to one another, its not just about being “free” and making all the money one can. there is more to life then that.

    look back when it wastn so hip to live here, how many of our own went above and beyond to keep this place a normal community to live in…jewish communities are and were always a place where we tried to keep food prices, tuition , houses, etc affordable for our fellow jews, not to see how we can make money off them.

    is this what its come to ? modern restaurant catered to jews and non jews eating together, who can make the most money off our fellow jews, and each men for his own ? because we live in a free country ??

    hashem have pity on us.

  • Milk $3!!!!

    Why is it OK for the Crown Heights controlled super market chain to buy milk for $1.50 and sell for $3.00 ??? Why can “Jewlers” buy a stone for $1,000 and sell for $3,000 to a desperate family trying to marry off their children according to Halacha??? Why can they charge $15.00 For a sandwich ???
    How is it that we allow our schools, mainly Beis Rivkah, to Charge parents $5,000 a year per child while they pay an average teacher $10,000 per year (where is all the money going) while the administrators live a life of luxury while the teachers are left with 7 months owed of back pay. This is not a issue with flipers as much as an issue with our collective community.
    Why do Matzos cost $25 a pound??? I mean flour and water!!!
    Why is kosher Pizza $20 a pie while non Kosher is $7 for the same size. Where is the outcry to this injustice? ??
    If you cared about Crown Heights, the flippers are on the bottom of list of our issues. You should care more about the daily lives that are affected by the greed in the streets and Moisdos of Crown Heights.

  • Mendy

    one second, let me see if I understand the point of this article: An investor buys a house in another community, miles from Crown Heights, then sells it for a profit, and this is somehow news? How is this our business?
    262 what street again? Is this in Brooklyn? This somehow has something to do with prices of homes in Kan Tziva? How is this not lashon hara and simple
    rechilus? As if he did something wrong and worthy of our opprobrium and contempt. Why, just because this guy lives in CH it is somehow relevant to me? Why do I need to Know this guy’s personal business affairs? Let him buy and sell and profit, and then do it again and again as much as he likes or is able to. This is still the US of A and I wish I was as smart as these guys and I could make money like they do. I bet all the bitter, angry, cynical, sarcastic, vindictive and jealous, vicious people who waste their time commenting like I just did – wish they were as smart and rich as these guys are too.

  • Nice going

    Moshe Yehuda. You are a real credit to your family. Thanks for putting another nail in the Crown Hts housing coffin.

  • Resident

    YOU THINK BECAUSE THIS IS NOT PART OF ”JEWISH” CROWN HEIGHT YOU ARE SAFE AND THIS WONT HAPPEN NEXT TO YOU !??STOP ANTI ZONING !! CALL ELI COHEN CALL BOARD NINE> ZONING MEANS THE END OF EMPIRE KOSHER !!!! THE END OF EMPIRE BOULEVARD!! THE VOTE IS APRIL FIRST>

    MAKE THE CALL. This neighberhood is headed for doom. look at 520 crown!! Just purchased last month by a fellow lubavitcher that doesnt have the greatest rep of keeping jews. He already messed up other blocks by filling them up in HEART of crown heights with yuppies.MAKE THE CALL TO BOARD NINE! ASK HOW YOU CAN HELP, CALL ELI COHEN DEMAND ACTION. LETS MAKE A COMMITTEE

  • why do you all care?

    Take a look around you. What exactly is so fantastic about crown heights?!

  • I moved

    I refuse to take a side in this ongoing argument yet I will advise that there are many thriving communities within a reasonable distance from ch. Check out the five towns, valley stream etc, many lubavitchers are moving there and there is plenty of affordable homes for sale ($500,000 -$800,000) free busing to ch schools, chabad shul etc.

  • Self rightteous

    How many of you so angry at those flipping houses and work hard to make money in business actually have a job, aren’t on Medicaid, food stamps, wic and head start etc etc etc…?

  • Conrad eidelman

    Can all of you say with certainty and confidence that said apartments are going to go to none Jewish community members?you all write with such confidence and are calling people names or even worse based on nothing more then some lubavitchers names on construction permits. Shame on all of you!

    It seems that all you people are, are a bunch if jealous free stuff wanting progressive over grown baby’s, becuase turning a plot of land currently holding only 2 homes and making it much larger and into 10 or 12 apartments can actually bring a partial solution to the housing problem. The price of rent in this neighborhood is not about the building owners making more, or less profits, but rather the basic rules of economics supply and demand.

  • chesed

    IS THIS THE WAY WE REPAY THE REBBE? IS THIS THE WAY A CHASSID ACTS BY JACKING UP THE PRICES IN CROWN HEIGHTS OF PROPERTY?
    YOUNG FAMILIES ARE SUFFERING!! THERE WILL BE MORE BLESSING IF AFFORDABLE HOUSING FOR ANASH IS MADE. THE MONEY THAT COMES WITH THIS WILL COME WITH BLESSING!! THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO DO CHESED!!! WHERE ARE YOU PEOPLE COMING FROM? MONEY COMES AND GOES BUT CHESED IS FOREVER!!

  • alias jack smith

    move to pa it is affordable a three bedroom s 83,000 up weith adriveway. no wall to wall neighbors. that is what i did. no more high taxes from the dibozo or cuomo.

  • take a look at their children

    look at these developers children and see where theya re heading.
    are they yireh shomayim, are they mehader in a mitzvah? does anyone care about these inyonim anymore or is it just dollars ans cents?
    and they all marry off their children just fine!!
    a few dollars always got u somewhere