Articles by Rebecca Baird-Remba

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.

Permits Filed: 14-35 Broadway, Astoria

7:00 pm on June 25, 2015 By Rebecca Baird-Remba

While Alma Realty and the Durst Organization are starting to reshape the Astoria waterfront with their megaprojects on Hallets Point and Vernon Boulevard, smaller developments have started to appear on the sleepy western edge of Astoria near Socrates Sculpture Park. Developer DK Real Estate Group has filed a new building application for a skinny eight-story, 15-unit building at 14-35 Broadway, between 14th and 21st Streets.

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Permits Filed: 10-64 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City

7:30 am on June 25, 2015 By Rebecca Baird-Remba

A seven-story apartment building with offices and retail may soon replace this odd little garage at 10-67 Jackson Avenue in Long Island City, on the corner of 50th Avenue near the Pulaski Bridge.

New Look: 325 West Broadway, aka XOCO, Soho’s Chocolate Factory Turned Condos

7:00 am on June 25, 2015 By Rebecca Baird-Remba

Two years ago, the Landmarks Preservation Commission greenlighted an innovative design to convert a Tootsie Roll factory to condos at 325 West Broadway in Soho. Now we have a new rendering of the aluminum and glass-clad project, dubbed XOCO 325 after the Catalan word for chocolate.

12-Story Karl Fischer-Designed Apartment Building Planned at 46 Cook Street, Williamsburg

11:30 am on June 24, 2015 By Rebecca Baird-Remba

Plans have been filed to build a 12-story mixed-use development with commercial and community space at 46 Cook Street, between Graham Avenue and Humboldt Street near Bushwick Houses in East Williamsburg.

Revealed: 1290 Decatur Street, Bushwick

8:00 am on June 24, 2015 By Rebecca Baird-Remba

The eastern edge of Bushwick, where the L train swings above ground next to cemeteries, serves as the borderlands of gentrified Brooklyn, just before Broadway Junction and East New York. But that hasn’t stopped condo developers from flocking there, looking to take advantage of relatively cheap property. And today YIMBY has the first look at a four-story condo project under construction at 1290-1300 Decatur Street, between Knickerbocker and Wilson Avenue.

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