A Downtown Brooklyn office building housing the NYPD unit that investigates sex crimes is slated for demolition, records show.
The building’s landlord, Arthur Anderman, through the Long Island-based entity Nevins Associates, submitted plans to the Department of Buildings this week to raze the entire 3-story property at 45 Nevins St. For more than two decades the building has been occupied by the Police Department’s Special Victims Division.
The Brooklyn outpost of the NYPD’s more than 300-person unit, which investigates about 14,000 complaints of sexual assault and child abuse each year, most recently renewed its lease for all 42,180 square feet of the building for 12 months at an annual rent of $1.5 million, according to a notice that appeared in the city register early last year.
There are no city records indicating that the NYPD has renewed its lease since last year, meaning it expired in February, but the bureau still appears to be active in the building, which has an alternate address listed as 320 Schermerhorn St. The Special Victims Division leases office space in each of the four other boroughs, although their precise locations in all but Manhattan, which is at 137 Centre St., are unclear.
Completed in 1949, 45 Nevins St. has been owned by Anderman since at least 1972, city records show.
The demolition permits, meanwhile, have yet to be approved by the Department of Buildings, which cited missing paperwork required as part of the application.
Anderman declined to comment when reached via phone by Crain’s Tuesday. And neither the NYPD nor the Department of Citywide Administrative Services, which oversees municipal buildings, responded to requests for comment by press time.
