Housing construction in Borough Park, whatever the season
Eye On Real Estate
In Borough Park, families are large as a matter of religious belief. There’s constant demand for additional housing. As in every Brooklyn neighborhood, construction work is done even when it’s cold.
* One of the myriad projects underway in the Orthodox Jewish enclave is at 1311 44th St., where workers were hoisting steel beams into place when we visited the neighborhood the other day. See related story.
The owner of the existing two-family, two-story house on the site plans to more than double the size of the building to 5,633 square feet and convert it to a four-family, five-story residence, city Buildings Department filings show.