A Corner Cut by Borinquen Place
A vacant two-story corner building of 1930 stands on a triangular lot between Borinquen Place and South 1st Street in Williamsburg, with two lofts, 11-foot ceilings and a cellar. The lot is zoned R6 with a C2-3 commercial overlay, and the listing says the building can be redeveloped to suit other uses.
The lot is a right triangle, 41.11 by 63.34 by 75.54 feet. The long wall faces Borinquen Place to the north, the shorter wall faces south-southwest down South 1st Street, and the corner narrows toward the west to a single door under a canopy with one window above it.
Buff Brick and a Gas Station
The upper story is buff brick laid in bands, with a row of small recessed panels under the parapet and a diamond panel at the top of the corner. The ground floor is painted grey, with steel doors under canopies and roll-down shutters. The city's tax photograph of 1940 shows the same corner, diamond panel included, with a Sinclair gas station on the ground floor and signs for gasoline and tires. The tax-lot record still lists the building as a garage.
Borinquen Place was Grand Street Extension before the 1970s, a diagonal street planned in 1900 to carry traffic from the Williamsburg Bridge onto Grand Street, and Borinquen is the Taino name for Puerto Rico. Inside, the photographs show long rooms with black steel columns, painted beams, radiators and small double-hung windows, and a raised plank platform at one end of the big room. Two of the photographs show furnished rooms; the listing delivers the building vacant.
