Prospect-Lefferts Gardens is ‘On the Map

Residents have also embraced other planned buildings, among them a 50-unit rental building at 111 Clarkson Avenue, where a run-down mansion will be razed. The developer, Aspen Equities, has met with neighbors on the project and plans to build two high-end eco-friendly seven-story buildings with rooftop or backyard gardening and bike storage, said Seth A. Brown, an Aspen Equities principal. “I’ve always seen this neighborhood as a bit of a doppelgänger for the Upper West Side in terms of the built environment,” he said, comparing Flatbush Avenue to Broadway.