Permits have been filed to expand a two-story structure into a five-story residential building at 1406 Lincoln Place in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Located between Utica Avenue and Rochester Avenue, the lot is near the Crown Heights-Utica Avenue subway station, serviced by the 2, 3, and 4 trains. Benzion Weiss of Lincoln Place Realty Holdings LLC is listed as the owner behind the applications.
At number two on our year-end countdown of the tallest buildings under construction in New York is 740 Eighth Avenue, a 1,067-foot mixed-use supertall skyscraper in Midtown, Manhattan. Designed by ODA with SLCE Architects as the architect of record and developed by Extell, the 52-story structure will span 776,000 square feet with an 825-room hotel on the lower half and a public observatory with a drop ride attraction above. The property will also feature lower-level retail space, a restaurant on two of the upper floors, and a pool deck for hotel guests. Lendlease is the general contractor, WSP is the structural engineer, and Ancora Engineering is handling excavation and foundations for the project, which is located along Eighth Avenue between West 45th and 46th Streets on the border of Times Square and Hell’s Kitchen.
Monadnock Development, CB Emmanuel Realty, and Equity Developers have announced the closing of a $256 million financing deal for the Utica Crescent Apartments project in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. This development, part of New York State’s Division of Housing and Community Renewal Vital Brooklyn Initiative, is set to transform an underutilized parking lot at 832 Rutland Road into a hub that offers affordable housing and commercial spaces and community spaces.
The affordable housing lottery has launched for 906 East New York Avenue, an eight-story mixed-use building in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. Designed by RSLN Architecture, MEP systems engineered by RAAD, and developed by Abeco Organization, the structure yields 48 residences. Available on NYC Housing Connect are 15 units for residents at 130 percent of the area median income (AMI), ranging in eligible income from $75,738 to $198,250.
Permits have been filed to expand a one-story structure into a six-story mixed-use building at 51 South 1st Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Located between Kent and Wythe Avenues, the lot is closest to the Bedford Avenue subway station, serviced by the L train. Einav Gelberg of 731 Liberty Avenue LLC is listed as the owner behind the applications.
