Articles by Michael Young

Alchemy Properties To Develop 19-Story Condo Project at 378 West End Avenue on the Upper West Side

7:00 am on September 13, 2018 By Michael Young

Alchemy Properties, alongside Daishin Securities, successfully acquired the site of 378 West End Avenue for $158 million last week, which will eventually become the home of a ground-up 19 story condominium building on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. It will be combined with a new 12-story structure, in conjunction with landmarks approvals, to be built at 260-262 West 78th Street, the former location of The Collegiate School.

Foundation Work and Concrete Pouring Underway at 80 Adams Street in Dumbo, Brooklyn

7:30 am on September 12, 2018 By Michael Young

A tipster’s photos of the impending 10-story residential project at 80 Adams Street in Dumbo, Brooklyn shows progress on the foundations, which are now being poured and laid with concrete and rebar. 165 units will occupy a site that previously featured a Jehovah’s Witness parking garage. The site was bought for around $60 million and is currently owned by Jeffrey Gershon of Hope Street Capital. ODA is the designer of the new building, which will eventually rise 120 feet above the streets below, and contain nearly 186,000 square feet of interior space. Triton Construction Company is the general contractor.

Cortlandt Street Subway Station Reopens After 17 Years of Cleanup and Construction in Lower Manhattan

7:30 am on September 11, 2018 By Michael Young

Ahead of the 17th anniversary of 9/11, the first subway trains began to stop and deliver passengers in and out of the newly opened Cortlandt Street subway stop on the 1 train, which was closed for nearly two decades from the collapse of the Twin Towers. Today, with a long, bright and expansive platform, the entrance from the Oculus can be found on the western side of its second floor while coming down from the Greenwich Street doors, or from the street, thanks to a series of double stairways and an ADA-accessible elevator next to the Memorial and future Performing Arts Center.

30 Warren Street Topped-Out and Nearing Completion in Tribeca

7:00 am on September 10, 2018 By Michael Young

Sitting directly across the street to the east of 108 Chambers Street, another new residential project is changing the landscape of Tribeca. Located between Warren Street and Chambers, the 12-story 30 Warren Street has already-topped out, and is currently blanketed in a web of scaffolding and black construction netting. The building is being designed by Post-Office Architects (POA), while HTO Architects serves as the executive architect. Cape Advisors is developing, the same group behind 75 West Broadway just down the block to the west.

187 Kent Avenue Begins To Take Shape In Williamsburg, Brooklyn

7:30 am on September 7, 2018 By Michael Young

Just a few blocks south of 25 Kent Avenue, located in the same Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, 187 Kent Avenue is a new seven-story mixed-use residential project rising between Metropolitan Avenue and North 3rd Street. Diego Aguilera Architects P.C. is the architect of record, and the site is being developed by CW Realty Management, who purchased it for $43 million, or $512 per square foot. The building is already a couple floors off the ground and will eventually stand around 85 feet tall, and contain a total of 140,036 square feet of space.

Permits Filed For New Mixed-Use Building Coming to 84-14 Queens Boulevard in Elmhurst, Queens

6:00 am on September 5, 2018 By Michael Young

A new residential building is set to rise seven stories on an empty plot of land at 84-14 Queens Boulevard in the Queens neighborhood of Elmhurst. The site is located on the north side within a triangular parcel of land surrounded by Queens Boulevard to the north, Van Loon Street to the west, and Grand Avenue curving upwards from the south. The Grand Avenue-Newton subway stop sits across the street, serving the E, M and R Train into Manhattan.

New Three-Story Building Coming to 133-02 Jamaica Avenue, Queens

7:00 am on September 4, 2018 By Michael Young

Permits have been filed for a new building at 133-02 Jamaica Avenue in Jamaica, Queens. Standing at the intersection of Jamaica Avenue and 133rd Street, it will be a ground-up project containing 28,360 square foot of commercial and community facility space.

Lehman College Files For New Building at 2800 Goulden Avenue in Kingsbridge, The Bronx

6:30 am on September 3, 2018 By Michael Young

Located at 2800 Goulden Avenue, at the perpendicular intersection of West 197th Street and Goulden Avenue, a new nursing education facility will soon span 51,670 square feet. The building is being designed by Urbahn Architects PLLC, an architecture firm located in the Garment District in Manhattan.

Studio Gang’s Geometric Solar Carve Tower Begins to Shine at 40 10th Avenue in Chelsea

8:00 am on August 31, 2018 By Michael Young

Topping-out this past April, Studio Gang‘s Solar Carve Tower along Chelsea’s High Line is now nearing full completion as its dazzling glass facade rises above Tenth Avenue, between West 13th and 14th Streets. Located at 40 Tenth Avenue, and sitting to the immediate north of the Standard Hotel, the 10-story building will be entirely encased in glass, and constructed with reinforced concrete. The Jeanne Gang-designed structure will span 139,000 square feet in all, and is being co-developed by Aurora Capital and William Gottlieb Real Estate.

Thomas Heatherwick’s Iconic Pier 55 Park Begins to Rise Above the Hudson River in Chelsea

8:00 am on August 30, 2018 By Michael Young

A part of Chelsea Piers that saw historic ocean liners RMS Lusitania and RMS Mauretania sail out of New York, as well as the arrival of The Titanic’s survivors aboard The Carpathia in 1912, is finally ready to begin its new life. Cunard’s former Pier 54 is now being transformed into an iconic floating park above the Hudson River called Pier 55, designed by Thomas Heatherwick.

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