The Bronx boom continues apace, and today, new applications are up for a residential development at 174 Marine Street, in the borough’s City Island neighborhood, a fair ways away from any public transit.
Fresh permits have revealed a new, two-building development with dual addresses at 1643 and 1645 New York Avenue, in Flatbush, Brooklyn. The project will rise five blocks away from the Flatbush Avenue Subway Station, the end of the line for the 2 and 5 trains, and a short walk east to the Brooklyn College campus.
120 Java Street isn’t the only church-to-residential project YIMBY can reveal today. We also have a fresh rendering for 24 Fourth Avenue, rising just steps from Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, in Boerum Hill. Designed by ODA Architecture, the 12-story, mixed-use building will contain 72 residences, ground floor retail, a community facility, and an enclosed parking structure with accommodations for 16 vehicles.
Brooklyn-based Salvatore Inzerillo has filed applications for a seven-story, 24-unit residential building at 651 Liberty Avenue, in East New York, Brooklyn. Located on a corner lot facing Liberty Avenue and Ashford Street, the proposed new building sits squarely between the Cleveland Street J and Shepherd Avenue C train stations.
Following a crucial vote by The New York City Council Committee on Land Use, a massive redevelopment proposal for the long-vacant Spofford Juvenile Detention Center in the the South Bronx will officially move forward. The project is expected to have transformative effects on the surrounding Hunts Point neighborhood, and is the latest component of the city’s multi-billion dollar initiative to rejuvenate the South Bronx.
