Brooklyn Club Site Set for 50-Unit Housing Push
What’s Planned for the Brooklyn Club Site? Rising on the current Boys & Girls Club and P.S. 287 properties, the proposal calls for a three-building mixed-use development that would markedly remake this stretch of Nassau and Navy streets. One tower would replace the Boys & Girls Club at 240 Nassau St. Two more buildings would rise on the current school site, including a corner structure with a new P.S. 287 and retail. The project would add 1,500 apartments, including 305 affordable units . Community Uses and Review Pressure Another Navy Street high-rise would combine senior housing, retail stores, and additional uses. A 27,000-square-foot community center and a 15,000-square-foot cultural center are planned, with space distributed across all three buildings. Similar projects elsewhere have relied on workforce housing models to pair residential growth with community-serving spaces. Ground-floor areas on Nassau Street would anchor those facilities. The plan enters environmental r...