Articles by Rebecca Baird-Remba

When Rezoning Isn’t Just About Housing: Planning the Future of Jerome Avenue

6:00 pm on July 2, 2015 By Rebecca Baird-Remba

Over the last few months, the Department of City Planning has lost the PR battle over the proposed Jerome Avenue rezoning. Residents and activists accused the city of trying to create a new neighborhood called “Cromwell-Jerome,” a reference to DCP’s initial plans for a zoning study, and in response, officials dropped “Cromwell” from the title. In reality, planning officials hope to revitalize a narrow, 73-block stretch around Jerome, from 167th Street to just south of Fordham Road. They want to improve parks, the streetscape, retail, community services, schools, and economic growth, instead of simply pushing through more housing development.

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Permits Filed: 143 Fulton Street, 26-Story Hotel in the Financial District

7:30 am on July 2, 2015 By Rebecca Baird-Remba

The narrow blocks next to the Fulton Transit Center are about to get a little more crowded, now that plans have been filed for a 26-story hotel at 143 Fulton Street, between Broadway and Nassau Street.

Permits Filed: 731 & 733 Bergen Street, Prospect Heights

7:00 am on July 2, 2015 By Rebecca Baird-Remba

Bergen Street in Prospect Heights is a hub of construction activity, and two residential buildings will finally rise on one of the strip’s last vacant lots between Underhill and Washington Avenues. Owner Benny Shlaff hopes to build two nearly identical four-story developments at 731 and 733 Bergen Street.

Permits Filed: 147-30 Archer Avenue, The Crossing at Jamaica Station

12:22 pm on July 1, 2015 By Rebecca Baird-Remba

BRP Companies plans to spend nearly $300 million developing two mixed-use high rises just north of Jamaica Station in Queens, in what some have called the “largest private investment in Downtown Jamaica in decades.” Now they’ve filed new building applications for their megaproject on Archer Avenue and Sutphin Boulevard, a combination of a church, mixed-income apartments and retail.

Permits Filed: 275 East 138th Street & 2550 Third Avenue, Supportive Housing in Mott Haven

7:30 am on July 1, 2015 By Rebecca Baird-Remba

Mott Haven is slowly growing new market-rate apartments, but most construction in the South Bronx neighborhood is still supportive or affordable housing. Now one supportive housing builder has filed plans for two developments at 275 East 138th Street and 2550 Third Avenue, on a lot bordered by East 139th Street and Alexander Avenue.

Revealed: 555 Waverly Avenue, Clinton Hill

7:30 am on July 1, 2015 By Rebecca Baird-Remba

YIMBY has the first look at an eight-story residential building designed by HTO Architect rising at 555 Waverly Avenue, at the corner of Atlantic Avenue on the southern edge of Clinton Hill.

Revealed: Two ODA-Designed Towers for Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 6

4:30 pm on June 30, 2015 By Rebecca Baird-Remba

Brooklyn Bridge Park President Regina Myer unveiled the design and developer for the two towers planned on the park’s final development site at Pier 6. RAL Development, who converted the former Jehovah’s Witnesses warehouse at 360 Furman Street to a pricey condo project known as One Brooklyn Bridge Park, is partnering with Oliver Realty to develop the buildings.

Permits Filed and First Look: 24 Second Avenue, East Village

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

Applications have finally been filed to replace the East Village’s last gas station with condos at 24 Second Avenue, on the corner of First Street.

Construction rendering for 875 Dekalb Avenue

Revealed: 875 Dekalb Avenue, Bed Stuy

7:00 am on June 30, 2015 By Rebecca Baird-Remba

YIMBY caught this rendering on the fence at 875 Dekalb Avenue in northeastern Bed Stuy, where South Williamsburg-developer Simon Kaufman is working on a six-story apartment building.

P.S. 31 pictured mid-demolition in April, photo by Nathan Kensinger for Curbed

City Moves to Redevelop Crumbling P.S. 31 in the South Bronx

4:30 pm on June 29, 2015 By Rebecca Baird-Remba

Preservationists spent years decrying the state of the decrepit, city-owned school at 425 Grand Concourse in the South Bronx neighborhood of Mott Haven, until the city announced that it would demolish the landmarked Gothic building, formerly P.S. 31, in April. Now the Department of Housing Preservation and Development has released an RFP (request for proposals) to redevelop the property into affordable housing.

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