Over the weekend, an application was submitted to the Department of Buildings to construct a small seven-story apartment building in Long Island City, at 21-10 44th Drive. The 16 units will be spread across a bit more than 16,000…
A few weeks ago, the Department of City Planning announced its intention to tweak the city’s zoning rules to encourage the production of affordable housing. The most important change is a reduction in the city’s parking…
If there’s one building type that defines East Williamsburg, it’s the vinyl-faced wood-frame building. Built long ago as modest workers’ dwellings, whatever the original façades were, whether clapboard or brick, have since been refaced with vinyl,…
Most of Mortar Architecture + Development’s projects – ranging from the modern to the traditional – are located in East Williamsburg. But they’re also designing a building in the neighborhood that came just before Williamsburg in…
In January, ground was broken on 55 Hudson Yards, the boxy office tower set to go vertical on the eastern side of 11th Avenue, between West 33rd and 34th streets. YIMBY reader ILNY sent over some…
