Found on Craigslist, Amicis is up for sale for $89,000 and the property can be yours “if interested”
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3 Canton Court was recently listed for a whopping $979,000, the most expensive listed home in Gerritsen Beach What does that buy you? A 1920′s built one family home that has 3 Bedrooms, 1 Full Bathrooms, 1 Partial Bathrooms, 856 Sq. Ft. If that was not enough of a selling point for you according to Filmore Real Estate the house HAS to be gutted. The only plus is that you are buying 3 water front lots for a total of 16,065 sq ft. Interesting side note: According to Zillow.com Canton Court has 8 homes for sale or recently sold, 6 of those homes are between Lois Avenue and the Creek. This is the most homes for sale or recently sold by a specific block in all of Gerritsen Beach. The second most expensive is 61 Bartlett at $650,000 There are lots of new stores popping up on the Avenue. Let’s break them down.
First we have Big Robs Heroes (2662 Gerritsen Avenue) which is closer to Devon Avenue. This place reminds us of of the failed Sammitch shop. We wish them luck! Next door to Rob’s we have another place ready to open of what we are not sure of yet.
Then we have the Channel Avenue Stores. The insurance place is gone and it is going to be a Tattoo parlor of sorts. The former Barber Shop is up for rent and being gutted out.
Then we have the Corner of Everett and Gerritsen – which has been undergoing renovations. When asked about what this location would be. “Something that would help out the community and help pay the rent.” says Owner Joe Giordano. “Ssomething along the lines of a community music studio, party hall, or teen club”. Since the summer of 2008 we have been tracking the progress of a court case of two Texas based companies: “Gerritsen Beach Investments Ltd” and “Riviera Investments I Ltd” vs Stephen Jemal. You may know Stephen Jemal and his company SSJ Development,LLC – they own the vacant Lacon Court and Knapp Street properties, and plan to develop into luxury condos. Apparently, these Texas companies were investors that SSJ Development courted to invest in his development of vacant land in our area. If you remember way back in July of 2008, we broke the original story that Lacon Ct and Knapp street developer Stephen S. Jemal got into a $5.5 million dollar contract dispute with his investment companies. That story ballooned into a major story when Jemal sent a letter threatening to sue GerritsenBeach.net, then the website came under a denial of service attack, which I was able to prove came from an associate of Jemals, and there was a Daily News story covering it. Anyways, after a few years in Federal court, a judgment has finally been rendered. The Texas-based companies which were the originally investment companies for Jemal’s properties here in Gerritsen Beach won 7.8 million dollars plus interest, for a loan that Jemal failed to repay. Jemal also lost a second case to a bank in Philadelphia. The bank loaned Jemal 11.1 million dollars for properties in Cape May County, NJ. According to the complaint, Jemal also failed to pay back this loan. This is currently being contested, but according to the complaint, the Jemals personally guaranteed these loans through a confession of judgment. As for the fate of the properties in our area, we have not been able to ascertain what is going to happen. Speculation includes that they may be sold off to the highest bidder, given to the investment companies, or even Jemal might get to keep them if he shuffles them around. In an interesting twist, it seems as though Jemal does not have the ownership he thought he had on Lacon Court. According to the last property owners meeting, the New York State DEC tried to fine Jemal for failure to clean up his docks but couldn’t because he was not listed as the owner. Calls to DEC and Alan Maisel were not returned.
2674 Gerritsen Avenue former home to Kings Music is now the former home of Second Hand Joes. The second hand furniture store almost lasted two years, they opened around November 2008.
Doreen Greenwood’s Real estate office has moved next door to the newly finished buildings next door.
At the former site of the foursome diner, walls have gone up for what is going to be walgreens.
The lot which is currently on sale for $9 million, is currently undergoing bulkhead repairs. This is not the city repairing the bulkhead as some may have first thought, but the property owner. They have also repaired the entire sidewalk on Knapp Street adjacent to their property
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2736 Gerritsen Avenue is the address for the lot that is under construction and it looks like we will be getting a new building erected there.
There are rumblings…. of something large coming, but nothing solid to put “out there” right now. If you know anything please comment.
What used to be Citgo has now been completely transformed into a bunch of store fronts.
The city’s Board of Standards and Appeals has spoken in the case of 1610 Avenue S in Brooklyn, and it has said, “You may build.†On Tuesday, the board voted that construction on a stalled six-story, 25-unit condominium in Sheepshead Bay, a lightning-rod for community opposition, could proceed, putting an end — for now — to a three-year tale that often seemed to unfold in a sort of bureaucratic twilight zone.
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