YIMBY visited two mid-rise residential buildings nearing completion in the Alphabet City section of Manhattan’s East Village. The properties are located on interior lots east of Avenue B, a short walk from Tompkins Square Park, and will yield a combined 16 units.
YIMBY checked in on the progress of eleven office-to-residential conversions underway in Manhattan. The projects, located in the Financial District, Tribeca, NoHo, Midtown, and Hell’s Kitchen, will repurpose the underutilized properties into nearly 3,000 new housing units.
Fischer Senior Apartments, a nine-story residential building, has opened at 97 West 169th Street in Highbridge, The Bronx. Designed by Shakespeare Gordon Vlado Architects and developed by West Side Federation for Senior and Supportive Housing (WSFSSH), the structure yields 105 units. Twenty-five apartments are dedicated to affordable housing and 59 are reserved for formerly homeless adults. The property is located between Nelson and Shakespeare Avenues.
New renderings have been revealed for 164-02 Jamaica Avenue, a forthcoming 28-story mixed-use building in Jamaica, Queens. Designed by Stat Architecture and developed by Vaya Development and Communilife, the 291,000-square-foot structure will yield 285 rental units with an average scope of 537 square feet. The project will also include 70,000 square feet of community facility space and 4,300 square feet of ground-floor retail. The 13,500-square-foot property is located at the intersection of Jamaica Avenue and 164th Street.
Excavation is progressing at 590 Union Street, the site of an eight-story mixed-use building in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Designed by StudiosC Architecture and developed by Trifecta Equities, the 85-foot-tall structure will yield 24 rental units with an average scope of 588 square feet. The project will also include 12,121 square feet of commercial space and a rear yard. Permits were filed by the owner through Artem Korsun of R & O Engineering. The property is located between 3rd and 4th Avenues.quities, who purchased the property for $4.5 million, the structure will stand 85 feet tall and yield 14,100 square feet of residential space divided into 24 rental units, as well as 12,121 square feet of commercial space, and a rear yard. Permits were filed by the owner through their representative Artem Korsun of R & O Engineering. The site is located on an interior lot between 3rd and 4th Avenue.
