"The days appear numbered for the striking butter yellow Italianate manse on Fort Greene's South Oxford Street, with developers applying to raze the attractive wood structure and replace it with a five-story apartment building. The circa 1860 wood frame house, located at 158 South Oxford St., between Hanson Place and Atlantic Avenue, was called a "rare beauty" by Brownstoner columnist Suzanne Spellen in 2010."
"In November, developer Shimon Kleiman applied for a permit to demolish the three-story wood frame and in December he applied for a new-building permit for a five-story building with 17 apartments and 10 off-street parking spaces, records show. Neither of the permits have been issued. While the permit applications list Kleiman as the owner, city records still show artist Marc E. Lambrechts as having the deed to the property."
The circa 1860, butter-yellow Italianate wood-frame house at 158 South Oxford St. features a Gothic-trimmed porch, symmetrical windows, and stands as one of few remaining houses of its type. The house is unlandmarked and was not included in a proposed Fort Greene Historic District expansion. In November a developer applied to demolish the three-story structure and in December applied for a five-story building permit proposing 17 apartments and 10 off-street parking spaces; neither permit has been issued. Permit applications list Shimon Kleiman, while city deed records list artist Marc E. Lambrechts. The 100-by-115-foot lot carries buildable rights up to 23,000 square feet and a market estimate of $8.01 million.
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