Permits have been filed to convert a two-story commercial structure into a four-story residential building at 179 North 10th Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Located between Bedford Avenue and Driggs Avenue, the interior lot is near the Bedford Avenue subway station, serviced by the L train. Hilmi Aydin of KSK Construction Group is listed as the owner behind the applications.
The affordable housing lottery has relaunched for 142 Richards Street, a four-story residential building with units still available in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Designed by OCV Architects and developed by Cheever Development, the structure yields 17 residences. Available on NYC Housing Connect are four units for residents at 130 percent of the area median income (AMI), ranging in eligible income from $88,972 to $198,250.
Excavation is progressing at 250 Water Street, the site of a 25-story mixed-use building in the South Street Seaport district of Lower Manhattan. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) and developed by The Howard Hughes Corporation, the 324-foot-tall structure will span 550,000 square feet and yield 399 total units with 100 affordable rental apartments, Class A offices, retail space, and community facility space. Suffolk Construction Company is the general contractor for the property, which is bound by Peck Slip to the northeast, Pearl Street to the northwest, Water Street to the southeast, and Beekman Street to the southwest.
The North Brooklyn Community Boathouse currently stands topped out at 51 Ash Street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Designed by Jeffrey Kamen Architect and developed by a non-profit organization formerly known as the North Brooklyn Boat Club, the ground-up 60-foot-tall, five-story, 18,106-square-foot structure will feature a 9,856-square-foot hotel component with 11 rooms and an 8,250-square-foot community facility. Brooklyn Construction Group is the general contractor for the project, which is located on a narrow strip of land along Ash Street between Newtown Creek and the Pulaski Bridge.
The first phase of a renovation and expansion project at the historic 92nd Street Y on the Upper East Side of Manhattan is now complete. Located at 1395 Lexington Avenue, the project was led by architects Beyer Blinder Belle and has reinvigorated four floors of cultural space within the building.