While affordable housing projects dominate new building permit filings in the South Bronx, in the better-off eastern and northern parts of the borough, YIMBY is starting to see a steady stream of applications for new market-rate rental buildings….
Williamsburg’s trendy Northside is jam-packed with some of the most unattractive structures of any close-in New York City neighborhood, with the simple-but-handsome faces of the area’s 19th century wood-frame homes disfigured decades ago by tacky vinyl paneling….
It’s been six years since the start of construction, and the World Trade Center PATH station’s signature aboveground structure has been topped out, so to speak, and taken its final shape. Most of its asymmetrical wings appear to…
Eighth Avenue has long been a main commercial street in Sunset Park, with its storefronts supplying the surrounding residential sidestreets with local retail. But in recent decades, it’s become the main drag for one of New York City’s two…
As rents, home values and land costs have risen throughout northern Brooklyn, small rental buildings have been pushed eastward. The R6 zoning around the the Myrtle–Wyckoff Avenues L and M stop, in Bushwick and Ridgewood, is relatively…
