Articles by Rebecca Baird-Remba

2626-2634 Miles Avenue, image via Google Maps2626-2634 Miles Avenue, image via Google Maps

Permits Filed: 2626-2634 Miles Avenue, Throgs Neck Townhouses in the Bronx

7:00 am on July 27, 2015 By Rebecca Baird-Remba

Much like City Island, Throgs Neck and its traditionally middle class Irish and Italian community resisted the abandonment and disinvestment that swept across the Bronx in the ’70s and ’80s. And even as property values have risen in the southeastern Bronx neighborhood, a 2004 rezoning has stunted most new construction. But one developer has found a way to make the restrictive zoning work for him and filed plans for five new townhouses at 2626-2634 Miles Avenue.

URL Staten Island, rendering by Concrete

Can Staten Island’s Infrastructure Keep Up with Its Development?

7:30 pm on July 24, 2015 By Rebecca Baird-Remba

Staten Island’s North Shore is preparing for four big developments and the 630-foot-tall New York Wheel, which will draw thousands of new residents and a huge influx of visitors to the sleepy industrial waterfront. But the city hasn’t spent much time trying to grapple with the borough’s longstanding infrastructure challenges that will only worsen as the population grows.

95-97 Grattan Street, rendering by Method Design

Rezoned Industrial Site Hits the Market at 95-97 Grattan Street, East Williamsburg

7:30 am on July 24, 2015 By Rebecca Baird-Remba

Developer Astral Weeks is getting ready to sell a recently rezoned vacant lot at 95-97 Grattan Street, deep in the East Williamsburg-Bushwick manufacturing zone. TerraCRG, which is marketing the property, sent along this rendering showing two residential buildings that could rise on the site.

191 and 195 Clarkson Avenue, image via Google Maps

Permits Filed: 195 Clarkson Avenue, Prospect Lefferts Gardens

7:00 am on July 24, 2015 By Rebecca Baird-Remba

The Flatbush filing frenzy has slowed over the last few months, but it appears to be getting back in gear again with a new building application filed for a residential development at 195 Clarkson Avenue, between Bedford and Rogers Avenues in Prospect Lefferts Gardens.

2414a Atlantic Avenue, image via Google Maps

Permits Filed: 2414A Atlantic Avenue, Ocean Hill

5:14 pm on July 23, 2015 By Rebecca Baird-Remba

In the borderlands between East New York, Brownsville and Ocean Hill, one developer is planning supportive housing on an industrial block that the city plans to rezone for residential. New building applications were filed today for a six-story development at 2414a Atlantic Avenue, between Sackman Street and East New York Avenue.

21 Powers Street, rendering by Meshberg Group

Revealed: 21 Powers Street, Slate’s Newest Condos in Williamsburg

8:00 am on July 23, 2015 By Rebecca Baird-Remba

Slate Property Group is one of Williamsburg’s most prolific developers at the moment, from big rental projects like 120 Union Avenue to boutique condo buildings like the one YIMBY can reveal today at 21 Powers Street.

27 Cranberry Street, rendering by Martin Santini

Revealed: New Brooklyn Heights Townhouse at 27 Cranberry Street

7:00 am on July 23, 2015 By Rebecca Baird-Remba

The new townhouse planned at 27 Cranberry Street in Brooklyn Heights was the subject of a New York Times story in 2013, and two years later, the Department of Buildings still hasn’t approved permits to construct the house. But YIMBY has the first rendering of what the home might look like once it’s finished.

1 Beekman Street, aka 33-34 Park Place, image via Google Maps1 Beekman Street, aka 33-34 Park Place, image via Google Maps

Permits Filed: 25-Story Condo Building Planned at 1 Beekman Street

1:30 pm on July 22, 2015 By Rebecca Baird-Remba

Last year, Chinatown-based developer Urban Muse snapped up one of the last major development sites near City Hall, 1 Beekman Street, for $52 million. Now SLCE Architects has filed plans for a 25-story residential tower on the site, also known as 33-34 Park Row.

141-26 Northern Boulevard, image via Bing Maps

Permits Filed: 141-26 Northern Boulevard, Flushing

7:30 am on July 22, 2015 By Rebecca Baird-Remba

As the growing Chinese community sprawls eastward in Queens, YIMBY finds filings for large, mixed-use developments planned further away from bustling downtown Flushing near the end of the 7 train. Yesterday, one developer filed plans for an 11-story building with commercial and community space at 141-26 Northern Boulevard, between Parsons Boulevard and Bowne Street.

324 West 125th Street, rendering by Gambino & LaPorta Architecture

Revealed: New Retail at 324 West 125th Street, Harlem

7:00 am on July 22, 2015 By Rebecca Baird-Remba

Last week, YIMBY brought you an update on the Whole Foods rising on 125th Street in Harlem. Now we have a rendering for another commercial project on the bustling retail strip, a two-story building at 324 West 125th Street, on the corner of St Nicholas Avenue.

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