New Residential Development at Marcy and Myrtle
The BP gas station at the corner of Marcy and Myrtle Avenues in Bed Stuy is being cleared out to make way for a new 6-story residential development. And while plans for the new building itself have not yet been approved, permits for the removal of the five 4,000-gallon underground gas tanks have been granted….
The BP gas station at the corner of Marcy and Myrtle Avenues in Bed Stuy is being cleared out to make way for a new 6-story residential development. And while plans for the new building itself have not yet been approved, permits for the removal of the five 4,000-gallon underground gas tanks have been granted. The new structure is being designed by an architect named Armando Porto, who’s also doing this new place on South 1st Street in Williamsburg. We’re not optimistic but we shall see. GMAP P*Shark DOB
Thanks computerguy – you have a point about the noise. We’ll never know what we missed! But for us it really is the lots on Myrtle that we wonder about. We wonder if we’ll soon be surrounded by big buildings that blot out the sun! Looks like nothing was happening there, but I knew it was only a matter of time before something started happening.
Since you have been in the area for a few years, would love to know your impression. We are relocating from the Bronx, but it feels like a world away.
I think the area could use a nice park…hope there is one nearby, would have loved to have moved in and lobbied to take over one of the empty lots on Myrtle and make it a community garden.
I live DC–gentrification hell 2.0–but lived down the street from where that BP station was/is. It was an “ESSO” back in the day, with a little burger stand attached. My grandfather and I used to go there for a milkshake and a “slider” type burger whenever he’d fill up.
That was back in the good ole days. Too quaint for the current new Brooklynite I suppose…
Guest 11:23pm, I was thinking about you guys when I saw the station closed. I started thinking that who ever has already bought into the buildings across the street are going to be thrilled!
Even though I live around the corner and own a car, I’m glad to see this station go. I hardly ever used that station. Maybe three times in the three years that I’ve lived in the area. It was an eyesore and served as a default hanging out spot for cars with loud radios.
I thumbed through the PDFs on the DOB website and saw that it is probably not going to be affordable, but that it is using the “quality housing” standards. So this will probably not be a pink monster and instead might actually be a welcome first sight, as you leave the subway station.
There’s another large steel framed building going up on Myrtle near this lot. Its also on Myrtle but between Marcy and Nostrand, about 100′ West from Myrtle and Marcy. I talked to a guy behind the construction fence and he told me that it was going to be rentals.
Wow – we are about to close on a condo right across the street from here. I can’t believe how much is happening on these blocks since we first visited. I hope it does turn out well…also not looking forward to being surrounded by more construction.
There’s plenty of affordable housing across the street–in the projects.
hope the development is some affordible housing.not another condo
Yes, you can still fill up the tank on your Porsche Cayenne for $85 at those locations. People with cars here betray their fundamental misunderstanding of what it is to live in New York.
There is still the Citgo on Classon and Myrtle, and the Exxon on Vanderbilt and Myrtle, correct?
It’s getting to hard to find an open gas station these days. Maybe I’ll install a pump of my own inside my poured concrete curb-cut front yard.