A five-story development that will replace a West Village sex shop got the design OK from the Landmarks Preservation Commission on Tuesday.
The Jackson Group’s mixed-used project, designed by SRA Architecture + Engineering, will work the corner of West 11th Street. The site’s existing one-story structure, home to adult toy store Fantasy World, will be demolished.
The original proposal, presented in April, featured a masonry facade on the West 11th Street side and a metal-glass facade facing Seventh Avenue South, Curbed reported. The new design, unanimously approved by the LPC, will incorporate more relief to the masonry on West 11th, swap out a lot of the metal on the Seventh Avenue facade and replace the white portions of the design with black.
Just over the line of the C8-2 commercial corridor of Empire that's been a hot topic lately, you'll find lots and lots of R7-1. That's the zoning that led to a 23 story tower on Flatbush. Today comes news that Toomey's, longtime diner on the SE corner of Rogers and Empire, will soon be a 50-60 unit apartment building. Undoubtedly, this will not be a low-rent affair. Not with Lefferts Gardens being the Hot Pocket that it is. And who pray tell is building there? The same lovable lug nuts who brought us this gem, replete with Starbux.
Architect Gene Kaufman, who has become one of Brooklyn’s more prolific architects during the recent housing boom, has just released a rendering and more details about two of his building projects under way in Williamsburg.
Above is a rendering for 56 North 9th Street at Kent Avenue, which broke ground over the summer. It will be six stories tall with 58 apartments, as previously reported. The bottom two floors of the 108,000 square foot building will be devoted to retail and dining. The building will have a roof terrace and include parking.
Construction also started over the summer on another Kaufman building on the opposite side of the neighborhood, at 774-776 Grand Street at Humboldt. That one will be an eight-story, 64-unit apartment building with 82,000 square feet.
9,852 SF 7 Residential Units This triangular lot was actually so small that new development was prohibited, but through a complicated process, approval was obtained to enlarge an existing laundromat to ten stories for residential use and the full floor area allowed by zoning. The core was set against the inner wall, with one unit per floor in the base and duplexes comprising two full floors in the tower of the setback upper floors to take full advantage of the two long street facades. The metal panel clad apartments and the brick service core provide an exterior reading of the plan and a dialogue between closely nested elements on a vestigial slice of land.
Leasing will begin next month at 395 Leonard Street in Williamsburg, the site of the former Meeker Flea alongside the BQE. The Karl Fischer-designed building will have studios starting at $2,600 a month, one bedrooms starting at $3,250 and two bedroom apartments starting at $4,335. A few penthouse units will be available for between $4,000 and $6,000 a month, leasing agent Fiddler Realty told us.
Amenities include a roof deck with fire pits, a screening room, fitness center, a children’s play room and bicycle storage. The building is seven stories tall and has 188 units.
A new teaser site and fresh details are out for a 13-unit residential building rising in Williamsburg. Thus far, developers Adam and Leslie Westreich of Tryad Group – who picked up the site for just $1.3 million in 2007 — have remained somewhat tight-lipped on what precisely is coming to 538 Union Avenue, according to Curbed.
But with sales about to launch later this fall, the owners have revealed that the building will feature eleven one- and two-bedrooms, plus two duplex penthouses with private rooftop terraces.
The apartments will also feature “sprawling living spaces, oversized windows [and an] industrially inspired design,” according to the site. Pricing will start at $645,000 for one-bedrooms, $1 million for two-bedrooms and $1.5 million for one of the penthouses. Aptsandlofts.com will be handling sales and marketing.
Project: 23-88 31st Street Status: Recently Completed (August)
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The seven-story, 28-unit project started leasing in August. Pricing for available units starts at $2,350 per month for a 661-square-foot one-bedroom. The most expensive unit is 7B, a 2,365-square-foot two-bedroom that’s asking $4,600 (it’s also listed as a 1,265-square-foot two-bedroom that’s asking $5,200, but that has to be a mistake, right?)
Every apartment has a balcony; interiors feature dark oak floors, central air conditioning, white quartz countertops, stainless steel appliances with glass backsplash and in-unit washer/dryer. Amenities include video intercom, bicycle storage space and garage parking with additional storage space available.
The specifics of the plans have changed slightly: The building, which will be quite large and take up much of the block between Bergen Street and Dean Street, will rise to eight stories and have a total of 130,00 square feet. There will be 120 rental units — studios, one and two bedroom units. Twenty percent of the units will be income-restricted, according to NYY. The mixed-use building will have 19,000 square feet of retail space.
The development will replace three rundown, low-rise structures on the Dean Street side of the property, not the 19th century brick brewery building on Bergen, as reported previously. The corner lot also has 141 feet of frontage on Franklin Avenue.
While the design reminds us of buildings in the Ladies’ Mile area in Manhattan rather than Crown Heights, it strikes us as a far cry above the majority of new construction.
At 5-35 47th Avenue, a developer is planning a 12-story mixed-use building, on a mid-block site between Vernon Avenue and Fifth Street, just north and west of the residentially-zoned part of Long Island City.
The permit application was submitted by Sunset Park-based Shiming Tam Architect, on behalf of developer Yanghua Su. The filing calls for a 26,000-square foot structure with medical space on the first through eighth floors, and then eight hotel rooms each on the ninth through 12th levels (with, oddly enough, four hotel rooms in the “cellar”), for a total of 28 rooms.
The River Tides at Greystone will sit at 1133 Warburton Avenue, overlooking the Hudson River and New Jersey Palisades. The project is being developed by Martin Ginsburg’s Ginsburg Development Companies, which has built a number of properties in Westchester County.
The site has been owned by GDC since the 1970s, and it is being developed with the help of $3.7 million in tax exemptions from the Yonkers Industrial Development Agency; occupancy is tentatively expected by the end of 2016.
Its a good thing Moses did not get his whole plan down. Originally, there would of been many more highways. Although a controversial figure, his ideas did help shape the city in the last half a century road/transportation wise in the parts where his highways ran across.
Construction is moving along in the next phase of the massive Navy Green mixed income housing development. It looks like five or six stories out of 12 have gone up so far at this condo building at 8 Vanderbilt Avenue at the corner of Flushing Avenue. It will have 98 income-restricted and market rate condominium units available. The bulk of the units, 74 of them, will be sold at prices affordable to moderate and middle income households. The rest, 24, will be sold at market rates. It will also have 1,600 square feet of retail space facing Flushing Avenue. Next to the building on Vanderbilt, 23 market rate townhouses are planned as well.
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Project: 70-32 Queens Boulevard
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The new 69-unit residential building at 70-32 Queens Boulevard, in Elmhurst, is being designed by Flushing-based architect Michael Kang. It will include about 55,000 square feet of residential space, with all apartments around 800 square feet in size. In most of the city this would mean rentals, but these will simply be small condos, as is common in New York’s Chinese neighborhoods.
The building includes 5,500 square feet of commercial space on the ground floor and a small 180-square foot community facility, topped by condos with balconies and an asymmetrical rooftop setback to form penthouse terraces. The parking garage will have room for 59 cars.
Four-Story Mixed-Use Building Going up on Marcus Garvey Near Fulton
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Work is progressing slowly at 472 Marcus Garvey near Fulton in Bed Stuy, where a four-story mixed-use building has been in the works since 2011. The building will have 10 apartments and one store, according to a new building permit. The site has received a number of stop work orders over the years, mostly for construction impact on neighboring properties. Click through to see a rendering of the finished design.
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