New Look: 61 Park Place, Park Slope
In May, a rendering went up on site at 61 Park Place, a 17-unit residential project in the northern part of Park Slope, between Fifth and Sixth avenues. The image was oblique, though, and not…
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Permits Filed: 2763 Morris Avenue, Fordham Affordable Housing Project
Most subsidized housing development in the Bronx is concentrated in the borough’s southern precincts, but occasionally we see below-market construction creep up the Grand Concourse, as with a filing today for a project at 2763 Morris…
Permits Filed: 494 Fountain Avenue, East New York
It’s a common refrain among those in New York City’s anti-development left that market-rate builders are only willing to build luxury housing. Anyone who reads YIMBY on a daily basis knows this is not true – there…
Permits Filed: 241 Franklin Avenue, Bed-Stuy
In the face of gentrification, no group in Brooklyn can withstand the onslaught, whether it’s Poles in Greenpoint, African-Americans in Bed-Stuy, Italians in East Williamsburg, Mexicans in Sunset Park, West Indians in Flatbush, or even the…
Permits Filed for Conversion of 180 Water Street Into 601-Unit Apartment Building, Financial District
In 2013, Emmes Realty paid $151 million (or $330 per square foot) to acquire the 25-story black modernist tower, built in 1971, at 180 Water Street, on the east side of the Financial District. Now, the owner…
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