Articles by Rebecca Baird-Remba

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.

Prospect Plaza Affordable Housing Rises in Ocean Hill

7:30 am on June 29, 2015 By Rebecca Baird-Remba

Fifteen years ago, the city emptied out the block-long Prospect Plaza housing project in Ocean Hill, Brooklyn, promising to redevelop and move the 1,500 former residents back in. Last year, NYCHA finally demolished the four dilapidated apartment towers and began construction on 364 units of affordable housing. YIMBY recently stopped by the site on Park and Prospect Places between Saratoga and Howard Avenues. Phase 1 of the development has taken shape on the north side of Prospect Place, and windows are already going in on both buildings.

Permits Filed: Hotel at 145-07 95th Avenue, Jamaica

7:00 am on June 29, 2015 By Rebecca Baird-Remba

Development is slowly taking hold in the sleepy industrial area just south of Jamaica’s railyards. A new building application was filed Friday for a nine-story hotel at 145-07 95th Avenue, a block from the Jamaica LIRR and Air Train stations.

Permits Filed: Residential and Manufacturing at 37-29 33rd Street, Long Island City

2:30 pm on June 26, 2015 By Rebecca Baird-Remba

Long Island City’s mixed-use district was originally engineered to create a mix of retail, apartments and light industry, but new construction manufacturing space is rarely developed in the waterfront neighborhood once filled with factories. But today, one developer filed plans for a mixed-use building with apartments and ground-floor manufacturing at 37-29 33rd Street, in a subdistrict known as Dutch Kills.

641 Dekalb Avenue, rendering by Issac and Stern

Revealed: 641 Dekalb Avenue, Bed-Stuy

7:30 am on June 26, 2015 By Rebecca Baird-Remba

Last week, YIMBY brought you the rendering for 1325 Herkimer Street, an Issac and Stern-designed apartment building in Bed-Stuy. Now we’ve got the first look at 641 Dekalb Avenue, another Bed-Stuy residential project from the same architect and developer.

Construction Update: The Beekman, Financial District

7:00 am on June 26, 2015 By Rebecca Baird-Remba

The 51-story tower rising at 5 Beekman Street, next to the landmarked, 19th century office building known as Temple Court, is close to topping out. A reader sent along these construction shots and told YIMBY that workers are constructing the top four floors of mechanicals for the 700-foot-tall structure.

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