NEW YORK | 55 West 17th Street | 200 FT | 19 FLOORS
Project: 55 West 17th Street
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Building applications call for a 91,714 square-foot structure that will include 5,231 square feet of ground-floor retail, with the rest of the space to be divided between 55 condominiums. A press release from last week (that came along with the project’s new website) described the breakdown as follows, also noting a slightly lower number of units than what’s on-file in the DOB documents:
Located on West 17th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, the 19-story building offers 53 residences ranging from one- to four-bedrooms. Upper floor residences present beautiful Manhattan views, and an expansive duplex penthouse with a private terrace and outdoor swimming pool graces the entirety of the building’s top floors.
The surrounding neighborhood is one of the most rapidly changing in New York City, and is currently home to a boom in both pre-war conversions and new development. The aesthetic of 55 West 17th Street will be respectful of the site’s surrounds, with an exterior covered in “handmade Danish brick” and metallic accents done in bronze architectural metal.
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"Then each time Fleetwood would be not so much overcome by remorse as bedazzled at having been shown the secret backlands of wealth, and how sooner or later it depended on some act of murder, seldom limited to once."
LOVE 10 Sullivan St. Looks like it's been there for 60 years.
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"Then each time Fleetwood would be not so much overcome by remorse as bedazzled at having been shown the secret backlands of wealth, and how sooner or later it depended on some act of murder, seldom limited to once."
Architect Robert A.M. Stern is known for a wide range of architectural styles, ranging from Postmodern works in his early career to the New Classical-style towers that have become his recent calling card. One such historic-inspired tower, Corigin Real Estate Group's No. 20 East End Avenue, is now nearing structural completion at the intersection of 80th Street and East End Avenue in New York City's Upper East Side.
NEW YORK | 1665 Jerome Avenue | 136 FT | 13 FLOORS
Project: 1665 Jerome Avenue
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The 13-story building will fill a long-vacant lot at 1665 Jerome Avenue, across the street from a ramp to the Cross-Bronx Expressway.
The development will reach 136 feet into the air and have 71 supportive housing units. Children aging out of foster care will live in the building, according to building permits filed back in 2012.
The housing will fill 58,000 square feet of community facility space on the fourth through 13th floors. The ground floor will host 4,600 square feet of retail, and a job training facility will occupy most of the second and third floors. The third floor will also have recreation space, a kitchenette, and offices for the non-profit running the building. Residents will be able to take advantage of a green roof and a shared roof terrace on the top floor.
The exterior will be modern and functional, and the facade will be clad in a mix of brick veneer, precast stone, and synthetic stucco. The design will certainly help revitalize the block, which is populated with auto shops, just like the rest of Jerome Avenue.
NEW YORK | 225 East Houston Street | 120 FT | 12 FLOORS
Project: 225 East Houston Street
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Here it comes. The Provident Loan Society building on East Houston Street is one step closer to sprouting a twelve-story (120-foot) tumor.
Owners Elsa and Dunnie Lai together filed paperwork for the $15 million project with the Department of Buildings ten days ago. As previously reported, plans call for a 41,000 square-foot transformation of the un-protected Provident Loan Society branch at 223-225 East Houston. Cutting to the chase, that equates to 38 apartments plus several recreational terraces and fitness rooms for tenants (34,200 square-feet). There is also bicycle storage with twelve spaces and commercial retail, presumably on the ground floor (6,800 square-feet).
Last month, we first revealed the potential eyesore to erupt from 223-225 East Houston. An ugly corner-hogger, at best. However, the renderings revealed probably won’t reflect the final product. The company believed to be the architect at the helm is now denying involvement. Bluarch principal Antonio Di Oronzo previously told DNAinfo that the firm is no longer working with the property owners. Not since last December, at least.
A jaw dropping feat of engineering for sure-check out the diagrams in the link!
Palace Theater To Be Lifted 29 Feet For Expanded Facilities And Retail
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Preservation consultant Elise Quasebarth of Higgins Quasebarth & Partners said it was originally built for vaudeville before becoming a movie house and home to other productions and eventually a Broadway theater. When constructed, it was actually surrounded by an office building bearing the “Palace” name. That bulding was removed in 1988.
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Architect Scott Duenow of PBDW Architects said that the theater, with its 1,700-plus seat capacity, is now encompassed by the 45-story DoubleTree hotel tower. He described it as a separate building, basically a box with an inch-gap.
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How will it be moved? Put simply, it will be jacked up. Put less simply, some of the current truss would be reinforced and then another part of it would be removed. A protective crate would be constructed around the theater, both above and below ground. Temporary shoring corner towers would also be put in place. Then beams would be inserted for the theater’s new platform before jacks using a telescopic hydraulic system are also inserted.
Then the theater will literally be jacked up one inch at a time. “After the first inch, the rest is just repetitive,” Mazzo said. After every lift, they will check to make sure everything is going well. He estimates it will take two weeks to lift the theater.
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