NEW YORK | MID/LOW RISES | General Developments Updates/Compilation

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Project: 218 Madison Avenue

Alex Sapir and Rotem Rosen’s Israeli public company, ASRR Capital, along with Suzer Group, the Turkish conglomerate led by the Suzar family, bought a large townhouse at 218 Madison Ave. that will be demolished for a 10-story luxury property.

The venture paid $18.5 million for the site at the corner of E. 36th St., according to a report in the Israeli media.

The plan of the venture is to develop 10 high-end, full-floor apartments, private underground parking, and a gym and spa for residents along with retail and a restaurant led by an important chef, sources said.
Some of the features of the circa-1800s building — like the elaborate stained glass skylight — will be moved to the new penthouse apartment.
Arkadi Novikov, who runs the exclusive Novikov Restaurant & Bar in London, was in New York last week and visited the site, sources told The Post.

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http://nypost.com/2015/02/01/madison...oes-for-18-5m/

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Project: 64 East 1st Street

Work has commenced at 64 E. First St., where a 6-story residential building will rise from the ruins of the former La Vie club here between First Avenue and Second Avenue.

Last April, New York Yimby reported that there will be six residential units (likely condos) — "two duplexes, one spanning the cellar and first floor, and another located on the sixth and penthouse levels; each of the other four residences will be full-floor."

The units will average a roomy 2,250 square feet.

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http://evgrieve.com/2015/02/heres-lo...g-to-east.html

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42-20 27th Street

Simon Dushinsky’s Rabsky Group is planning to build a 15-story residential building in Long Island City, according to a permit application filed with the city today.

Rabsky is planning a 99-unit, 135,000-square-foot project at 42-20 27th Street, located between Queens Plaza and 42nd Road. ODA Architecture is the architect of record. Plans call for a 114,801-square-foot residential component as well as a 20,304-square-foot commercial component on the ground floor. - See more at: http://therealdeal.com/blog/2015/02/....kwR0DNBB.dpuf

42-20 27th Street

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Project: 338 Berry Street

Million Dollar Listing star Fredrik Eklund took to his Instagram page today to announce the launching of the teaser site for 338 Berry Street, a condo conversion in Williamsburg that will henceforth be known as...oh man...Williamsberry. In a borough where more and more buildings are giving themsleves really silly names, Williamsberry might take the cake, and then cover that cake with Williamsberry-flavored icing because Williamsberry sounds like a kind of jam. Or a Froyo store. Or a butler from an Edwardian novel. Williamsberry, fetch the silver! The Duke approaches!

According to recent permits, which developer Mona Gora (a.k.a. Very Berry, LLC) was finally able to file after getting rid of those pesky existing tenants, the seven-story former noodle factory will be enlarged by one floor and will contain 54 units, which Eklund reveals will be priced from $575,000 to $3.5 million and up for the three penthouses. From the rendering it looks like the rumored solar panels are still in play.

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http://www.williamsberry.com/#home
http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2015/0...uit_spread.php

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Construction Update: Pierhouse (Brooklyn Bridge Park)

At Tuesday night’s meeting of the Community Advisory Council of Brooklyn Bridge Park, the council passed a resolution demanding an immediate halt to all construction in the park, including Pierhouse and housing on Pier 6, until concerns about views, financing, and school overcrowding can be resolved, Curbed and Brooklyn Eagle reported.

Steven Guterman, founder of preservationist group Save the View Now, argued in his presentation that the Pierhouse request for proposal, REIS and Design Guidelines clearly require the park and Pierhouse developer Toll Brothers to preserve views of the Brooklyn Bridge from the Brooklyn Heights Promenade – the same view (everything above the roadbed) that the park long ago promised the Brooklyn Heights Association it would preserve and which Pierhouse is now obscuring — the Eagle said.

Park President Regina Myer has said all along that the park has been completely open about all changes to the design and height of the Pierhouse hotel and condos as they were happening, and disclosed everything to the CAC in a series of meetings. But CAC members disputed that at the meeting.

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http://www.brownstoner.com/blog/2015...-frontpage-top

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Project: 140-17 Queens Blvd

A new Sleep Inn is currently under construction in Jamaica, the latest addition to the growing number of hotels in the area, which in recent years has been taking advantage of its proximity to major highways and JFK airport.

The new hotel, at 140-17 Queens Blvd., between Hillside and Jamaica avenues, is being built on the same block where another hotel — SpringHill Suites — is also planned.

The 4-story Sleep Inn will feature 49 rooms and it's slated to open by the end of the year, according to its owner, Raj Singh.

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http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/2015...dgings-jamaica

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Project: 10 Jay Street (Facade/Renovation)

The 10-story building at 10 Jay Street is finally headed for a makeover and residential conversion. Since the building sits within the Dumbo Historic District, the Landmarks Preservation Commission heard a proposal this week for an ambitious new facade for the building. ODA Architecture outlined plans for a glass and steel, sugar crystal-inspired front for the East River-facing side of the building, as well as a restoration of the building's other three faces. The LPC approved of the latter, but ultimately decided that the "striking" design was not a fit for the historic district.

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http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2015/0...jay_street.php

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Project: 170 Buffalo Avenue

Health care group Centers Health Care revealed details of its plans to make over the long-shuttered and derelict St. Mary’s Hospital at 170 Buffalo Avenue in Crown Heights into a nursing home at a meeting of Community Board 8 Thursday night. The firm has already gutted the building and plans to convert it to a 280-bed facility with 30 parking spots.

It will reduce the size of the hospital’s current parking lot and plant a garden in the western half of it, which extends between two unrelated neighboring apartment buildings. There will also be landscaping around the perimeter of the building. Architect John W. Baumgarten plans to revamp the exterior with stucco and highlight the existing corner staircases to soften the hulking structure’s appearance.

Centers Health Care purchased the 170,000-square-foot hospital for $19,500,000 last year, firm reps said last night. (Records show an LLC.) The firm is a group of independently owned and operated health care facilities of various types, including Brooklyn Center at 1455 Coney Island Avenue, run by Prospect Park Operating LLC, which we reported last year had leased St. Mary’s from the new owner for $1,500,000 for 15 years. (As far as we can tell, that operator has no connection to the similarly named Park Slope assisted living facility, Prospect Park Residences, which has been in litigation over its controversial sale and closure.)

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http://www.brownstoner.com/blog/2015...crown-heights/

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Project: 43-12 214th Place (Recently finished)

The eight apartments up for sale as a package measure 787 square feet to 1,055 square feet, and they are all two-bedrooms (page 9 of pdf here). The listing describes the offering as “a great opportunity to either rent the condo units or sell out individually.”

The facade of the building is clad copper, with floor-to-ceiling windows. The 22 residences range in size from 522 square feet to 1,146 square feet. Interiors feature solid maple hardwood flooring, stone countertops, stainless steel appliances, in-unit washer/dryer, and bathrooms with floor-to-ceiling Carrera porcelain. Most of the apartments have private exterior space.

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http://www.masseyknakal.com/listingi...Tower_-_OM.pdf
http://news.buzzbuzzhome.com/2015/02...per-tower.html

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Project: 64 East 1st Street





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http://evgrieve.com/2015/02/heres-lo...g-to-east.html

MGM’s East Village condo gets rendering

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^^^^

Nice, those 2200 sq ft units are just the right amount of room.

Thanks Sparkling for aiding with the NYC updates.

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Project: 130 Seventh Avenue South

Plans call for a red brick building with five residences over 6.5 floors. The two penthouse units will have outdoor space, and one of those units will include a jacuzzi, Ms. Gol said. Every unit in the building will have storage in the basement. There will also be about 2,000 square feet of high-end retail on the ground floor, as Commercial Observer previously reported. Construction is slated to start “imminently,” Ms. Gol said, and be completed between 18 months and two years.

Continental and Itzhaki, then named Keystone Group, paid $6.2 million for the site in December 2012.

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http://commercialobserver.com/2015/0...-avenue-south/

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Construction Update: 81 East 125th Street

Contruction Image: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kpt5mzteqW...0/IMG_4005.jpg (Large Image)

Reminder:

One of the last elements to be restored on the facade of the Corn Exchange Building is the copper cornice that wraps around the border of the roof. Walking by the intersection of 125th and Park Avenue over the weekend, we noticed that this important detail was being installed at the upper level. The window frames of the dormer windows also will have copper elements and it looks like both are now being worked on simultaneously. Once the metal roof components are added in, then the slate tiles will be one of the final touches needed to finish up the exterior other than installing the windows. For the complete rendering of the plans for this Harlem landmark

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http://harlembespoke.blogspot.com/20...-exchange.html

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Project: 36-27 31st Street

That’s the story at 35-27 31st Street, in Long Island City. Beneath the elevated Astoria Line tracks, an application was submitted on Friday to build a seven-story, 34-unit rental building on the eastern side of the street, half a block below the 36th Avenue border with Astoria.

The developer, listed as Bessie Giannopulos, bought the mid-century single-story brick commercial building last year for $2 million. The new structure, designed by Morali Architects, will have a nearly 6,000-square foot commercial space – divided between a store on the first floor and offices on the second – with apartments starting on the third floor. The 34 units will be spread over 24,000 square foot of residential space, for an average size of just over 700 square feet.

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http://www.yimbynews.com/2015/02/per...land-city.html

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83 Rogers Avenue

Permits were filed for a five-story, 10-unit building at 83 Rogers Avenue at the corner of Prospect Place in Crown Heights. The lot is currently vacant, and the new building will have a shared roofdeck. The developer, DK Real Estate Group, completed the eight-unit rental building at 147 Rogers Avenue in 2013. And the gentrifying neighborhood's development boom continues

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439-443 West 54th Street


LAUREN ELKIES SCHRAM
2/09/2015

Sam Chang‘s McSam Hotel Group has sold two adjacent vacant lots in Midtown West for $19.6 million, Commercial Observer has learned. The deal closed last Thursday.

Publicly-traded Japan-based company Kobe Bussan has purchased 439-443 West 54th Street between Ninth and 10th Avenues from McSam, according to Michele Guerrero of Pink Stone Realty, who represented the buyer along with colleague Teni Kalafian.

“The lots are currently vacant and demolition is nearly complete,” according to the Cushman & Wakefield listing. “There are [Department of Buildings]-approved plans for the construction of a 101-room hotel, allowing for a gross square footage of 31,648.” The asking price was $19.5 million.

Kobe Bussan, which franchises hundreds of wholesale supermarkets in Japan, intends to erect a seven-story hotel with a restaurant, according to Pink Stone Realty Managing Director Michael Segerman, marking the company’s first project in the U.S.

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Project: 894 Bushwick Avenue

A drive down Bushwick Avenue Sunday revealed three new holes where 19th century buildings used to be. At least one, and possibly all three buildings, was a mid-19th century Italianate; all are on oversize lots. The longtime owners got relatively little for the properties, where two developers are planning two medium-size apartment buildings with 20 and 14 units each.

All three houses had been altered over the years, obscuring their origins. No. 894 Bushwick Avenue, which is now gone, was an Italianate wedding cake of a house, with a porch with fanciful brackets spanning its width. The narrower house next door at No. 890 appeared to be a brick house built in the teens, but its oversize lot indicates it could have been much older or had replaced an older house. It is also now gone.

Further up the street at 774 Bushwick Avenue is another 19th century wood frame building with tall arched windows that might have once looked much like No. 894, or it could be a later house, perhaps from the 1890s. It has been partly demolished. We found a rendering on the fence of the modern apartment building, above, that will replace it.

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http://www.brownstoner.com/blog/2015...shwick-avenue/

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Project: 200 Nassau Street

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn is fairly far along with its conversion of a two-story church and community building into 84 apartments at 200 Nassau Street in Downtown Brooklyn, despite a penalty and DOB violation for failure to correct hazardous conditions related to crane and digging work, according to DOB files. The building appears to be up to about five stories already; plans call for four stories, plus a penthouse, with parking for 31 cars and 42 bicycles, according to an alteration permit filed in 2013. (A partial permit was issued in September 2014.)

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http://www.brownstoner.com/blog/2015...town-brooklyn/

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North 12th and Berry streets



Tuesday, February 10, 2015
Hana R. Alberts

Because Williamsburg is chock-full of new construction, it's hard to imagine there's room for any more. But then a tipster sent in a photo of the signage that just went up at the corner of North 12th and Berry streets. It took some sleuthing, but Department of Buildings filings reveal that the rendering is of a seven-story, 54-unit building. Said the tipster:

"I've lived across the street at 34 Berry since the building opened, and noticed that the empty lot was already a stalled construction site since June 2010." The original permit was actually filed and approved back in 2008, but just renewed at the end of January. So his update makes sense: "In recent weeks, I've walked by the site and noticed that activity has started again. There's also a sign up that says a residential project is in progress and due for completion in July 2016." The design seems to include columns of brick interspersed with casement windows, including some that curve around the corner.

The SOB paperwork also notes that the building will include a laundry room, multiple bike-storage rooms, parking for 27 cars, a recreation room, and a roof deck. The developer is one Joseph Rubin and the architect is Bernard Ocasio.