Articles by Michael Young and Matt Pruznick

New Renderings Revealed For 89 Dekalb Avenue in Fort Greene, Brooklyn

New renderings have been revealed for 89 Dekalb Avenue, a 30-story mixed-use building under construction in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Designed by Perkins Eastman and developed by RXR, the 348-foot-tall structure will span 289,000 square feet and yield 324 rental apartments with 98 rent-stabilized units, as well as 55,000 square feet of academic space for Long Island University, a cellar level, a 30-foot-long rear yard, two loading berths, nearly 15,000 square feet of amenities, and an enclosed parking garage for up to 198 vehicles with electric charging stations. Whitehall Interiors is the interior designer, RXR LIU PII Developer TRS LLC is listed as the owner and LRC Construction is the general contractor for the property, which is located on an interior lot by the corner of Dekalb Avenue and Ashland Place.

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25-01 Queens Plaza North Nears Topping Out in Long Island City, Queens

Construction is closing in on the parapet of 25-01 Queens Plaza North, a 26-story residential building in Long Island City, Queens. Designed by Handel Architects and developed by Grubb Properties, which purchased the property for $63 million in 2021, the 311-foot-tall structure will yield 417 rental units with 124 reserved for affordable housing, as well as 7,600 square feet of ground-floor retail space. 25-01 QPN Consigli Construction is the general contractor, Custom Metalcrafters is supplying the glass façade, DeSimone Consulting Engineering provided structural engineering and facade consulting services, and King Contracting Group will be responsible for installing nearly 125,000 square feet of bricks and CMU blocks for the project, which is located between Crescent and 27th Streets, directly adjacent to the elevated Queensboro Plaza station servicing the 7, N, and W trains.

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Anagram Finishes Construction at 1 West 60th Street on Manhattan’s Upper West Side

Construction is wrapping up on Anagram, a 26-story residential tower at 1 West 60th Street on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Designed by INC Architecture & Design with SLCE Architects as the architect of record and developed by Global Holdings Management Group, the 281-foot-tall structure spans 180,813 square feet and yields 123 rental units with interiors by The Setting, as well as 20,000 square feet of retail space on the first two levels. Pavarini McGovern is the general contractor and DeSimone Consulting Engineers is the façade consultant for the property, which is alternately addressed as 1841 Broadway and located at the corner of Broadway and West 60th Street, just north of Columbus Circle and the southwest corner of Central Park.

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Revised Design Revealed for Affirmation Tower At 418 11th Avenue in Hudson Yards, Manhattan

Renderings have been revealed for a redesign of Affirmation Tower, a proposed mixed-use supertall skyscraper at 418 Eleventh Avenue in Hudson Yards. The development team of The Peebles Corporation, McKissack & McKissack, Exact Capital Group, and the Witkoff Group has brought on OMA to redesign the 1.4-million-square-foot structure, which is planned to yield mixed-income apartments, a convention center, retail space, community facilities, a public observation deck, and The National Civil Rights Museum as part of a collaboration with the NAACP. The project would rise from a 1.2-acre plot dubbed “Site K” bound by Eleventh Avenue, Hudson Boulevard West, and West 35th and 36th Streets.

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Astor On Third II Nears Completion at 2-24 26th Avenue in Astoria, Queens

Construction is wrapping up on Astor On Third II, a six-story mixed-use building at 2-24 26th Avenue in the Hallets Point section of Astoria, Queens. Designed by FNA Engineering Services PC and developed by Yitzchok Katz of Developing NY State, the 64-foot-tall structure will span 111,862 square feet and yield 137 rental units with an average scope of 683 square feet, as well as 18,249 square feet of ground-floor community facility space, a 60-foot-long rear yard, and 69 parking spaces. The project is located at the corner of 26th Avenue and 3rd Street, just north of its Astor On Third companion development at 26-41 3rd Street on 27th Avenue.

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