Location of the weekly Franklin at Sterling Flea Market.
Tax class: all others
Tax block/lot: 1245/9
Lot frontage: 25 feet
Lot depth: 75 feet
Irregularly shaped lot: no
Building frontage: feet
Building depth: 75
Irregularly shaped building: no
Zoning codes from NYC Department of City Planning: R6
Tax class: residential vacant land
Tax block/lot: 1168/57
Lot frontage: 27 feet
Lot depth: 100 feet
Irregularly shaped lot: no
Building frontage: feet
Building depth: 100
Irregularly shaped building: no
Zoning codes from NYC Department of City Planning: R6
Tax class: all others
Tax block/lot: 1231/15
Lot frontage: 19 feet
Lot depth: 46 feet
Irregularly shaped lot: yes
Building frontage: feet
Building depth: 46
Irregularly shaped building: no
Zoning codes from NYC Department of City Planning: R6
On the northeast corner of Franklin and Atlantic sits this vacant lot. The graffitied wall has recently been painted over within the last two weeks. Chain link and barbed wire surround this empty patch.
Tax block/lot: 2021/1
Lot frontage: 109 feet
Lot depth: 98 feet
Irregularly shaped lot: yes
Building frontage: feet
Building depth: 98
Irregularly shaped building: no
Zoning codes from NYC Department of City Planning: M1-1 (The M1 district is often a buffer between M2 or M3 districts and adjacent to residential or commercial shops, auto storage, repair shops, wholesale service and storage facilities.)
David Del Rosario is an architectural lighting designer living in Brooklyn, New York. This blog is a result of his thesis work completed in 2010.
The choice of Franklin Avenue, in the neighborhood of North Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York, exemplifies a gentrifying commercial street halted by the economic downturn.
The application of light on blight re-examines temporal permanence and questions its future, unknown manifestation. Light embodies the potential to inform and revitalize, while activating a space for present usage.