The Landmarks Preservation Commission has approved a new five-story building for an eye-catching section of Hancock Street in the Bedford Stuyvesant Historic District, voting unanimously to green-light the design with some key modifications.

The vote at last week’s LPC meeting comes almost a year after the plans for 164 Hancock Street were first presented to the commissioners , and two years after the designs for neighboring 162 Hancock Street were approved .

The site at 164 Hancock Street is one of two adjacent parcels being redeveloped by 164 Hancock Development LLC. Together, the pair of similar looking 50-foot-tall brick and brownstone buildings will occupy what was once the private garden of 168 Hancock Street, a grand 1880s Neo-Grec townhouse with a mansard roof and side bays

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