In Plain Sight, a free, yearlong public art exhibition, opened June 4 at Brooklyn Army Terminal and the Brooklyn Wholesale Meat Market in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Curated by Debra Simon of Debra Simon Art Consulting in partnership with NYCEDC and WXY architecture + urban design, the exhibition features 12 Brooklyn-based artists and uses the waterfront industrial campus as a site-specific canvas.
The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) is set to review plans for the adaptive reuse of the landmarked Williamsburg Savings Bank Tower at One Hanson Place in Downtown Brooklyn. Assembled by BSE Global and Acheson Doyle Partners Architects, the proposal would convert portions of the building’s landmarked banking hall and related interior spaces into a Casa Tua Cucina food hall and dining destination while retaining and working around significant historic features of the interior.
New York City is set to move forward with a long-delayed busway on 34th Street between Ninth Avenue and Third Avenue in Midtown, Manhattan. The plan is intended to improve travel times for more than 28,000 daily bus riders while enhancing street safety, freight movement, and emergency vehicle access. The initiative builds on the city’s previous bus-priority projects, including the 14th Street busway.
Two Queens rezoning proposals are moving into the public hearing phase before the New York City Planning Commission, marking the next step in the city’s Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP). The applications, known as the 100-12 Queens Boulevard Rezoning in Forest Hills and the 50-02 Queens Boulevard Rezoning in Woodside, would facilitate the development of new mixed-use residential projects that together would add more than 640 housing units to the borough, including over 160 income-restricted apartments.
Sales have launched at The Windsor, a nine-story condominium development at 23 Ocean Parkway in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn. Designed by Gene Kaufman Architects and developed by Local Development Group, the red-brick building will include 98 studio to three-bedroom condos and more than 18,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor amenities. The property is located between Coney Island Avenue and East 8th Street, diagonal from the southwest corner of Prospect Park.
