Permits have been filed to expand a two-story structure into a six-story mixed-use building at 5120 9th Avenue in Borough Park, Brooklyn. Located between Boston Road and Pratt Avenue, the lot is near the Eastchester-Dyre Avenue subway station, serviced by the 5 train. Toby Eng is listed as the owner behind the applications.
At number 17 on our year-end countdown of the tallest buildings under construction in New York is 625 Fulton Street, a 500-foot-tall mixed-use skyscraper in Downtown Brooklyn. Designed by Fischer Rasmussen Whitefield Architects and developed by Rabsky Group with $450 million in construction financing from Madison Realty Capital, the 35-story structure will yield 1,098 rental units, 26,000 square feet of retail space on the lower levels, and an on-site parking garage for 250 vehicles. Galaxy Developers is the general contractor for the property, which is alternately addressed as 485 Hudson Avenue and bound by the 34-story 80 DeKalb Avenue to the north, Fulton Street to the south, Rockwell Place to the east, and Hudson Avenue to the west.
Industry City, a 35-acre mixed-use complex along the Sunset Park waterfront in Brooklyn, has announced four new lease signings. Kinolime, Dowbuilt, Prudential Insurance, and KYHA Studios will occupy a combined 15,282 square feet through Industry City’s flexible leasing policy, which allows tenants to secure additional space if needed in the future.
Permits have been filed to expand a three-story structure into a four-story residential building at 716 East 215th Street in Williamsbridge, The Bronx. Located between White Plains Road and Holland Avenue, the lot is near the Gun Hill Road subway station, serviced by the 2 and 5 trains. Joel Grunbaum of Newkirk Gardens LLC is listed as the owner behind the applications.
The 18th-tallest building on our year-end construction countdown is 255 East 77th Street, a 500-foot-tall residential skyscraper in the Lenox Hill section of Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Developed by Naftali Group with Hill West Architects as the architect of record, the 36-story structure will span 170,481 square feet and yield 62 condominium units, as well as 3,861 square feet of retail space, two cellar levels, and 33 enclosed parking spaces. 255 East 77th St Owner LP is listed as the owner and New Line Structures & Development is the general contractor for the project, which is alternately addressed as 1481 Second Avenue and located at the corner of Second Avenue and East 77th Street.
