In 2008, 125th Street uptown was rezoned to allow denser residential uses along its width. Redevelopment has been slow – commercial thoroughfares are always slow to change, since high ground-floor retail rents discourage rebuilding –…
In July, YIMBY brought you word that the owners of the Staten Island Mall were seeking permission from the city to add nearly half a million square feet of new space without building any new parking….
Rising prices in Long Island City are increasingly encouraging condominium development among newly-purchased lots, but most projects built on land bought in earlier years are coming to fruition as rentals, including one building just north of the Queensboro Bridge. There,…
An application was submitted earlier today to build an eight-story apartment building at 200 Linden Boulevard, in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn. The building’s 69 units would be spread across 47,000 square feet of residential…
The de Blasio administration gave the New York Times a preview of the mayor’s State of the City speech later today, which will focus almost entirely on housing. In it, he will announce rezonings for East Harlem and Stapleton,…
