Perelman Performing Arts Center Opens To The Public At The World Trade Center in Financial District

8:00 am on September 16, 2023 By Michael Young and Matt Pruznick

Yesterday at noon the long-awaited Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC NYC) opened to the general public on the 16-acre World Trade Center site at 251 Fulton Street in the Financial District. Designed by REX with Davis Brody Bond Architects as the executive architect and developed by The Perelman, the 138-foot tall, 129,000-square-foot cubic structure features three flexible performance spaces: the 450-seat John E. Zuccotti Theater, the 250-seat Mike Nichols Theater, and the 99-seat Doris Duke Foundation Theater, all enclosed in a translucent book-matched marble façade. The $500 million property is bound by Vesey Street to the north, Fulton Street to the south, Greenwich Street to the east, and Skidmore Owings & Merrill‘s One World Trade Center to the west.

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Rendering of Dekalb Commons

Dekalb Commons Affordable Housing Complex Breaks Ground in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn

7:30 am on September 16, 2023 By Sebastian Morris

City officials, project partners, and community leaders recently joined to celebrate the commencement of construction at Dekalb Commons, a three-building affordable housing complex in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Designed by Magnusson Architecture & Planning and developed in partnership by the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation and St. Nicks Alliance, the buildings are currently addressed as 652 Dekalb Avenue, 639 Dekalb Avenue, and 1187 Fulton Street.

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Housing Lottery Launches for 23-27 Eldert Street in Bushwick, Brooklyn

6:30 am on September 16, 2023 By Vanessa Londono

The affordable housing lottery has launched for 23-27 Eldert Street, two four-story residential buildings in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Designed by Asher Hershkowitz Architect, the structures yield 16 residences total. Available on NYC Housing Connect are six units for residents at 130 percent of the area median income (AMI), ranging in eligible income from $76,286 to $198,250.

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3Eleven at 311 Eleventh Avenue - Courtesy of Douglaston Development

3ELEVEN Completes Construction at 601 West 29th Street in West Chelsea, Manhattan 

8:00 am on September 15, 2023 By Michael Young and Matt Pruznick

Construction is complete on 3ELEVEN, a 60-story residential skyscraper at 601 West 29th Street along the border of West Chelsea and Hudson Yards. Designed by FXCollaborative and developed by Douglaston Development, the 695-foot-tall structure is also known as Tower A alongside the shorter 606 West 30th Street and yields 935 rental units, with 235 designated for affordable housing, as well as 15,000 square feet of retail space on the podium floors. ES Windows supplied the glass curtain wall and Levine Builders served as the general contractor for the property, which is alternately addressed as 311 Eleventh Avenue and bound by West 30th Street to the north, West 29th Street to the south, and Eleventh Avenue to the east.

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