Yesterday, a permit application was filed for a new affordable housing project in the Morrisania section of the South Bronx, at 3475 Third Avenue, just south of East 168th Street. The application was filed by…
Earlier today, a permit application was filed by Karl Fischer Architects to construct a new six-story residential building near the border of Bed-Stuy and Bushwick, at 843 Lexington Avenue. The apartment project would sit between Patchen…
New York’s Financial District has seen a tremendous residential boom over the past few decades – its nighttime population doubled from 2000 to 2010 to 40,000 – as developers convert obsolete office towers in a declining business district…
Lot by lot, northwestern Crown Heights – or at least, the parts that are zoned for housing – is slowly being filled in, as the neighborhood continues its rapid transformation from marginal area on brownstone Brooklyn’s gentrifying fringe,…
During the 1930s and ’40s, Rego Park and other central Queens neighborhoods were the site of frenzied speculative residential construction, as private, market-rate builders sought to meet some of the massive demand for new apartments in…
