More than twenty years after the Abyssinian Development Corporation purchased the old Harlem Renaissance Ballroom on Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard, the last remains of the complex will, sadly, be torn down, according to a building permit…
The East Bronx neighborhood of Soundview is about to get a new school. Yesterday, a permit was filed on behalf of the New York City School Construction Authority for P.S. 317, a new five-story school at…
Another day, another permit filing near the Myrtle–Wyckoff Avenues L/M station. Today’s new building permit application comes at 1455 Gates Avenue, in the heart of Bushwick. There, between Knickerbocker and Irving Avenues, Shia Lefkowitz with…
On the Red Hook waterfront, something big is brewing – 1.1 million square feet big. Since 2012, Est4te Four, the Italian developer behind 160 Imlay, has been quietly buying up large chunks of the Red Hook waterfront. Brownstoner’s Rebecca…
North 11th Street in Williamsburg, right below McCarren Park, has been mostly filled out, with residential buildings rising throughout the 2000s. And now comes a permit filing for one of the last pieces of the…
