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[fimiak]

Originally Posted by Eveningsong

Of course. Cuomo emphasizes cars/trucks over buses and subways. No surprise there.

Yeah he spent just over one million dollars on New York City. That is an absolute pittance coming from the state for transportation.

[chris08876]

J&R finds partner to redevelop sites next to closed store


From left: 23 and 31 Park Row, Rachelle and Joe Friedman, and 1-15 Park Row rendering

Plans for the store call for “an unprecedented retailing concept and social mecca,” the owners said in a memo. “In order to facilitate this exciting new initiative, the buildings that J&R occupies have to be totally reimagined and redeveloped.” The owner have not yet decided if an iteration of J&R Music and Computer World will be part of the new complex. Its electronics will continue to be sold online via Amazon.com and the J&R website.

In recent years, the Friedmans shifted the sections of the block-long emporium out of 23 and 31 Park Row and into primarily 1-15 Park Row. The retail buildings have been mostly vacant since the repositioning of the electronics business, sources said.
The developers are considering options for the commercially zoned space, though it is expected they will retain its retail use, sources said.

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April 21, 2014
http://therealdeal.com/blog/2014/04/...-closed-store/

[Hypothalamus]

Gowanus coal pockets being razed
Canal continues to see demolition, changes

April 19, 2014 11:00AM


Burns Brothers coal pockets at Gowanus Canal

The Burns Brothers coal pockets by the Goawnus Canal are in the process of being torn down, presumably to make way for a new office development.

The Burns Brothers coal pockets were in operation on Sixth Street at Second Avenue in Brooklyn from 1915 to 1938. Eight pockets were built between 1915 and 1924. By 1938, 10 more were built.

The forthcoming office development that will take the coal pockets’ place will also overtake the neighboring bus depot.

The demolition of these coal pockets immediately follows the tearing down of Gowanus’s silos on Carroll Street earlier this month. The Carroll Street silos were taken down to make room for The Lightstone Group’s upcoming massive 700-unit apartment complex.

©Eymund Diegel

[Hypothalamus]

The Brownstoner:

Touting Bushwick’s “Transformation,” Massey Knakal Markets 2.5-Acre Office-Retail Site There
by Cate 04/21/14 11:30am

Massey Knakal is marketing a huge site in Bushwick’s loft area as a “redevelopment opportunity.” An email we received about it urged us to ”join the transformation in Morgantown of East Williamsburg/Bushwick.”

While there is no set list price, the sellers are expecting 215 Moore Street will bring in about $29,500,000, said Massey Knakal Senior Associate Michael Mazzara.

The 2.3-acre site contains five industrial buildings totaling nearly 47,000 square feet, including 1,000 square feet of frontage on Moore, Seigel and White streets. It’s zoned for manufacturing and nearly 170,000 square feet of commercial space is allowed, according to the listing. Interestingly, nine of the lots have no certificate of occupancy, one has a C of O for a store and four residential units, and six others are pegged as storage, parking, steel manufacturing and even a stable and blacksmith shop. (Maybe Bushwick could use one of those!)

215 Moore Street Listing [Massey Knakal]

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[chris08876]

Hello Living's Flatbush Development Will Look Like This

A brochure [PDF] for the 44-unit condo building reveals the first real rendering we've seen of Hello Living's development at 2415 Albemarle Road, southeast of Prospect Park in Flatbush (an area referred to in the brochure as "The New Frontier"). Designed by architects Zambrano, the building will tower over its surroundings at 12 stories and 121 feet. The 44 units will range in price from $210,000 to $380,000, and, as evidenced by the rendering, each one will come with a private street-facing terrace, as well as a private elevator landing. There will also be 30 parking spaces, and a gym.

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http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/0..._like_this.php
PDF: https://www.dropbox.com/s/swyzfecqoh...chure%20Sm.pdf

[Hypothalamus]

NY Daily News:

Arverne East development could get a jump start this year with housing and retail plan
City Councilman Donovan Richards says affordable housing must be part of any Arverne East plan

BY LISA L. COLANGELO
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Tuesday, April 22, 2014, 2:00 AM


CHRISTIE M FARRIELLA/FOR NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
City Councilman Donovan Richards discusses potential plans at the Arverne East redevelopment site located on stretch of land along the beach between Beach 56th Street and Beach 32 Street in Rockaway.

This could be the year that Arverne East finally comes alive.

City Councilman Donovan Richards said he is pushing the city — and prodding developers — to move ahead with plans to build affordable housing and retail on a portion of the dormant 80-acre site in Rockaway.

“We’re at a pinnacle time here,” said Richards (D-Laurelton). “Mayor de Blasio has set a (city-wide) goal of 200,000 affordable units and the developer is in a good place.”

Richards said he is meeting with officials from the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development on Tuesday to discuss the project’s future.

He is optimistic that shovels could be in the ground within the year.

Richards is insistent that affordable housing be included in any plan — saying it could be on a sliding scale that would include teachers, firefighters and police officers.

“We don’t want the beach gentrified,” he said.

Community Board 14 officials, who had originally argued the local economy needed a boost from pricier market-rate housing, said they are not opposed to affordable housing.

The Arverne East site was cleared as part of urban renewal plans of the late 1960s. But various plans to build on the site never materialized. The latest project calls for a mix of housing and commercial development as well as a nature preserve.

“We want mostly homeownership, condos and houses so that they have a vested interest in the community,” said Jonathan Gaska, the district manager of Community Board 14. “We are willing to have a conversation about affordable housing, but everyone is talking around us and not to us.”

The urban renewal area was cleared more than 40 years ago, leaving valuable beachfront property between Beach 56th St. and Beach 32nd St.

But a series of ambitious plans to develop housing, commercial space and even a sports and entertainment complex failed to materialize

In 2007, the city reached an agreement with L+M Development, Bluestone Organization and Triangle Equities to develop the site, but that plan was waylaid by the economic downturn. And then, in 2012, Hurricane Sandy devastated the peninsula.

Construction in areas closer to the water are still a way’s off because roads and other important infrastructure will need to be built, said Ron Moelis, the CEO of L&M, but that doesn’t mean the whole project must be stalled.

“There’s some land on the Edgemere side that already has infrastructure in place,” Moelis said. “We can build some housing and retail there."

CHRISTIE M FARRIELLA/FOR NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
The Arverne East site was cleared as part of urban renewal plans of the late 1960s. But various plans to build on the site never materialized. The latest project calls for a mix of housing and commercial development as well as a nature preserve.

[chris08876]

Renderings and Pricing out for Sleek Condos on Atlantic Avenue in Boerum Hill

Eight condos have hit the market at Barrett Development’s 440 Atlantic Avenue in Boerum Hill, with two- and three-bedrooms starting at $875,000. The thoroughly modern building replaced two decrepit 19th century townhouses and is still under construction.

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brownstoner.com/blog/2014/04/renderings-and-pricing-emerge-for-440-atlantic-avenue-condos/

[chris08876]

West Village Foundling on the Market

The downtown outpost of the New York Foundling is officially on the market, asking $47.5 million. True to the hype, the massive, 19,000-square-foot building is being marketed by superbroker Dolly Lenz as a single-family residential conversion. The official listing boasts six floorplans for the buildings cellar, four above-grade floors, and roof, as well as a rendering of what the site could look like after renovation.

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http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/0...2ea16a8b035de9

[chris08876]

Plans Filed for Extell's Block-Eating East 14th Street Project

Extell filed plans for two new 7-story retail/residential buildings that will swallow most of East 14th Street between Avenues A and B (h/t EV Grieve). Extell purchased eight parcels on the block last year, vacated all of the retail tenants, and is currently demolishing the old low-rise buildings that were once occupied by ABC Animal Hospital, the Blarney Cove, Pete's-a-Pizza, Stuyvesant Grocery, Bargain Bazaar, and more. The addresses for the new buildings, according to the plans, will be 500 and 524 East 14th Street. The lone holdout was the tenement at no. 520, which houses a Dunkin' Donuts, which is probably the one business East Villagers would have liked to see leave.

Both new buildings will rise seven stories. No. 500 will be larger, at 138,388 square feet with 106 units and 20,039 square feet of retail at street level. No. 524 will be 50,509 square feet and have 44 apartments, with 10,112 square feet of retail. The cellar level of no. 500 will have a fitness room, residents lounge, a playroom, and storage, plus a swimming pool and steam room, and the roof will have recreation space. No. 524 will only have storage and a rooftop deck, but maybe the amenities will be shared between the buildings? It's not yet known if any of the apartments will be set aside as affordable housing.

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http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/0...et_project.php

[chris08876]

Councilman Proposes Green Barriers


Proposed site for a green barrier at FDR East River Drive between 76th and 77th streets.

Proposed site for a green barrier at FDR East River Drive between 72nd and 73rd streets.

Proposed site for a green barrier at FDR East River Drive at 65th Street.

Manhattan District Five council member Brad Kallos is proposing improvements to the East Side Esplanade between 65th and 77th streets. Kallos is proposing the transfer of some unused space in the 12-block-span to the Parks Department who could reappoint it as part of the esplanade, granting more space to one of the borough's districts with the least open space per capita. Kallos is also asking for the installation of a "green noise barrier" between the esplanade and highway to mitigate noise pollution and increase area greenery.

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Zoe Rosenberg
http://ny.curbed.com/tags/east-river-esplanade

[chris08876]

Investors buy stake in Cobble Hill hospital project

A Borough Park investment group active in the acquisition of New York City hospitals closed yesterday on a 49 percent stake in the project to redevelop the Long Island College Hospital in Cobble Hill, sources told The Real Deal.

The group, including investor Chaim “Harry” Miller, bought the minority stake in Brooklyn Health Partners, the winning bidder to maintain the hospitals and use excess development rights to build residential housing, the sources said.
Merrell Schexnydre, the chairman and CEO of Brooklyn Health Partners, won the bidding for the project with a $250 million bid selected by the State University of New York board of trustees.

Schexnydre did not respond to several requests for comment. Miller, through a spokesperson, declined to comment.

The Borough Park entity that made the investment was Atlantic Partners Lofts LLC. The terms of the deal were not available. The current zoning provides about 1 million square feet of development rights, but the purchasing group plans to file an application to rezone the area that could give the site as much as 2 million square feet of residential development rights, sources close to the deal said.

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Adam Pincus
April 24, 2014
http://therealdeal.com/blog/2014/04/...oject-sources/

[chris08876]

1770 Madison Avenue

Permits for 1770 Madison Avenue indicate the building will span 36,675 square feet, with space split between a variety of uses. The first two floors will have 5,124 square feet of retail space, and 6,310 square feet dedicated to a ‘community facility,’ which will apparently be used as a medical office. The remainder of the project will be divided amongst 32 apartments.

Current Site:

Completion of 1770 Madison Avenue is expected in the summer of 2015.

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http://www.yimbynews.com/2014/04/rev...avenue.html/1#

[chris08876]

Essex Crossing Developers File Pre-Demolition Documents For Former Fire Station at 185 Broome St.

In a filing recorded on Friday, BFC Partners (one of four Essex Crossing developers), started the process to tear down 185 Broome St., the old fire house on the north end of site #5. The area where the building now sits will become a 15,000 square foot park. In recent years, the structure served as home to Angel Aerial, a movie prop business.

In addition to the park, site #5 will include a mixed-use building consisting of apartments, a dual-generation school run by the Educational Alliance and a still-to-be-named grocery store. A section of the lot is also being set aside for a possible public school.

Two other sites are included in the first phase of construction, scheduled to begin one year from now. Among them, site #2 (on the southeast corner of Essex and Delancey streets), where a new Essex Street Market is going o be built. Presumably, we’ll be seeing pre-demolition documents sometime soon for the old Essex Market structure, which is not currently used by vendors but is sometimes rented out for special events.

Essex Crossing, covering nine sites of the former Seward Park Urban Renewal Area, will include 1000 apartments, commercial spaces and community facilities encompassing nearly 2 million square feet.

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http://www.thelodownny.com/leslog/20...broome-st.html

[chris08876]

Mount Manresa redevelopment

The Savo Brothers development firm has been hit with a temporary restraining order from a Manhattan Supreme Court justice, halting work at Jesuit retreat Mount Manresa on Staten Island.
Justice Peter Moulton’s ruling will allow the court to hear arguments from the Committee to Save Mount Manresa, local leaders and other opponents. Also, an environmental review – expected to cover the sewer problems and suspected air pollution — needs to occur before the project begins. The developers plan to construct condominium town homes holding 250 residential units on the 15.4-acre site.

“This gives the Department of Buildings a chance to look at all the environmental issues,” Daniel Marotta, legal counsel to the Committee to Save Mount Manresa, told the Staten Island Advance.

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http://therealdeal.com/blog/2014/04/...redevelopment/

[chris08876]

Six-Story Residential Project Going Up in Bed-Stuy

In Bed-Stuy, Brownstoner recently spotted schematics for a new six-story building set to go up at 244 Franklin Avenue. The developer is Israel-based Urban View, with designs from Olabanji B. Awosika. The development will have 12 units and 9,750 square feet of space, though construction has stalled due to a partial stop work order.

Though the schematics are pretty skimpy, the building looks like it will be really interesting, with a design clearly influenced by visual luminary Boaz Gilad.

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April 26, 2014
http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/0...in_bedstuy.php

[chris08876]

Long-stalled “rat castle” at 179 Ludlow resumes work


Project to hold ground-floor retail, six stories of floor-through apartments

Work has finally resumed at the long-stalled 179 Ludlow, which has sat half-finished since 2006.
Fresh work on the building’s balconies are the first hint that the site is moving forward, as Bowery Boogie reported. Department of Buildings permits posted on the site show that the property will ultimately have 1,650-square-feet of commercial space on the ground floor, along with six upper stories of floor-through apartments. Kleinmann Group is listed as the architect of record.

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April 29, 2014
http://therealdeal.com/blog/2014/04/...-resumes-work/

[chris08876]

Note: Updated info on post #183

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204-206 Forsyth Street :

Lower East Side luxury project to rise in place of Jesuit school

Demolition work has begun at the Nativity Mission School, a Lower East Side Jesuit middle school for boys, which will be replaced by a seven-story luxury residential building.

Developer Charles Saulson, who in 2012 bought 204 Forsyth Street for $4.5 million and 206 Forsyth Street for $1.7 million, plans to build a glassy 80-foot, 11-unit structure on the adjoining sites. Z Architecture is designing the project, according to Bowery Boogie. It’s unclear if it will be condominium or a rental.

The city issued permits in October for dismantling the school by “mechanical means.” The mostly tuition-free school for disadvantaged youth was located at 204 Forsyth, while its recreation area was at 206 Forsyth.

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http://therealdeal.com/blog/2014/01/...t-school-demo/

[chris08876]

Passive House Knickerbocker Commons

The city's second multi-family passive house dwelling will soon come to market. The six-story Bushwick building at 803 Knickerbocker Avenue will have 24 apartments open to disabled and low-income renters. Six of Knickerbocker Commons' apartments will be handicap accessible and eight units will be for people with incomes lower than 30 percent of the city's median income, NYDN reports. Through sustainable measure like the building's insulating and shading foam and stucco facade, a high-functioning ventilation system that retains warmth, and by harvesting solar energy, as noted by Bedford + Bowery, the building will use just 10 percent of the energy normally consumed by a building its size. Not only will energy bills in the building be low, so too will monthly rents: apartments will be priced between $600 and $1,100.

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May 1, 2014
http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2014/0...t_from_600.php

[chris08876]

New renderings released at 738 Grand Street in Williamsburg

New renderings have been released for the S3 Architecture-designed 738 Grand Street in Williamsburg.
The 10-unit, mixed-use project, located between Humboldt Street and Graham Avenue, will feature one- and two-bedroom condominiums, according to Buzzbuzzhome. The two upper floors will be duplex apartments with double-height spaces.

The building’s industrial design will employ brick, painted steel beams, steel and glass windows and metal siding.

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Christopher Cameron
http://therealdeal.com/blog/2014/03/...-williamsburg/

[chris08876]

Williamsburg warehouse set to become apartments

A five-story Williamsburg warehouse is slated to be converted into a 39-unit apartment complex.

The property at 60 Berry Street, near North 10th Street, would hold 42,900 square feet of residential space and 10,530 square feet for a commercial component. It is unknown whether the apartments will be rentals or condominiums. The building would remain the same height, at 70 feet. Brooklyn-based North 11 Associates LLC is developing the site, about two years after acquiring it for $5 million. Architect Nataliya Donskoy of the firm ND Architecture has been tapped to handle the design work.

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Mark Maurer
http://therealdeal.com/blog/2014/02/...me-apartments/