Permits have been filed for a four-story apartment building at 831 Forest Avenue in Melrose, The Bronx. Located between East 158th Street and East 160th Street, the interior lot is three blocks west of the Prospect Avenue subway station, serviced by the 2 and 5 trains. Kambiz Yaghoobian under the Forest LLC is listed as the owner behind the applications.
Permits have been filed for a seven-story apartment building at 2512 Bedford Avenue in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Located between Clarendon Road and Avenue D, the interior lot is seven blocks west of the Newkirk Avenue subway station, serviced by the 2 and 5 trains. Shlomo Sinay of Candor Capital is listed as the owner behind the applications.
Permits have been filed for an 11-story mixed-use building at 43-21 64th Street in Woodside, Queens. Located between 43rd Avenue and the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, the corner lot is six blocks west of the 69 Street-Fisk Avenue subway station, serviced by the 7 train. Aharon Benhamo of Mount Sinai Properties is listed as the owner behind the applications.
Last week, the state appeals court dismissed an appeal, effectively greenlighting the American Museum of Natural History’s plans for a new educational center on the Upper West Side. According to West Side Rag, the removal of trees outside of the Museum has already begun in preparation for the 230,000-square-foot Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation. The Gilder Center will include new exhibition and learning spaces with state-of-the-art technology and access to the Museum’s world-class collections. The five-story addition to the Museum is designed by Jeanne Gang of Studio Gang Architects with Ralph Appelbaum Associates designing the exhibition experiences, and the Reed Hilderbrand firm responsible for the landscape architecture.
Permits have been filed for a seven-story residential building at 835 Maple Street in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. Located between East 48th Street and Utica Avenue, the interior lot is seven city blocks south of the Utica Avenue subway station, serviced by the 2, 3, and 4 trains. Yossi Schwartz is listed as the owner behind the applications.
