June 2016


CornellTECH Residential

Cornell Tech’s 26-Story, 250-Unit Passive House Dorm Tops Out on Roosevelt Island

Cornell Tech’s 26-story, 250-unit Passive House residential building, dubbed CornellTECH Residential and being built as part of Cornell’s 10-building Roosevelt Island campus project, has now topped out and is receiving its façade. The student and faculty dormitory is roughly 70 percent complete, according to a Curbed NY report. The unit configurations range from studios to three-bedrooms, and amenities include a fitness center and a lounge/dining area with a kitchen on the 26th floor. Handel Architects is behind the design of the residential building, which is set to be the largest Passive House structure in the world.

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100 Norfolk Street

Cantilever Takes Shape for 12-Story, 38-Unit Mixed-Use Building at 100 Norfolk Street, Lower East Side

Construction is now ongoing on the eighth-floor cantilever of the 12-story, 38-unit mixed-use building under construction at 100 Norfolk Street, on the Lower East Side. Steel beam construction can be seen in photographs via a Bowery Boogie update. The structure will eventually measure 53,949 square feet, with 11,244 square feet designated as commercial-retail space on parts of the ground through third floors. The residential units, ranging from studios all the way up to a five-bedroom penthouse, will be condominiums and should average 1,124 square feet apiece. Amenities include a fitness center, a yoga room, a common rooftop deck, a garden lounge, private residential storage, and bike storage. Adam America Real Estate, the Naveh Shuster Group, and the Horizon Group are the developers, while ODA New York is behind the architecture. The structure has grown four stories since YIMBY’s last update in December 2015. Completion is expected before 2017.

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130 Carroll Street

Four-Story, Three-Unit Residential Building Planned at 130 Carroll Street, Carroll Gardens

Property owner Mark Rechler, doing business as an anonymous Long Island City-based LLC, has filed applications for a four-story, three-unit residential building at 130 Carroll Street, in Carroll Gardens. The structure will measure 6,460 square feet and its residential units should average 1,557 square feet apiece, indicative of condominiums. A triplex apartment will be located on the cellar through second floors, followed by a duplex apartment on part of the second floor and the third floor. Another duplex apartment will be hosted on the fourth floor and an upper penthouse level. Long Island City-based Atelier New York Architecture is the architect of record. The 37-foot-wide, 3,650-square-foot plot consists of a vacant lot and a three-story townhouse at 128 Carroll Street. Demolition permits have yet to be filed.

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151-01 17th Avenue

15 Two-Family Houses Coming to Vacant Plot at 151-01 17th Avenue, Whitestone, Queens

Floral Park, N.Y.-based Maddd Equities has filed applications for 15 two-family houses at the vacant plot of land bound by Murray Street, 17th Avenue, and 150th Place in Whitestone, Queens. The individual buildings, to stand two stories in height, will measure between 3,465 square feet to 4,470 square feet. Across the entire development, the full-floor apartments should average 1,316 square feet apiece, indicative of family-sized configurations. So far, filings have been submitted for the addresses of 16-03 – 16-11 Murray Street, 16-02 – 16-16 150th Place, and 151-01 – 151-25 17th Avenue. Roslyn, N.Y.-based Shahriar Afshari is the applicant of record. The land is currently being used as a parking lot, probably for the St. Luke’s School across the street.

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