57-12 58th Place

Three-Story, Three-Family Residential Project Planned At 57-12 58th Place, Maspeth

2:00 pm on March 24, 2016 By Reid Wilson

Frank Alesci, doing business as Queens-based FPS Contracting, has filed applications for a three-story, three-unit residential building at 57-12 58th Place, in Maspeth, located seven blocks south of the Long Island Expressway. The new building will measure 3,874 square feet in total and its full-floor residential units should average a spacious 1,291 square feet apiece. The project will feature a garage for two floors on the ground floor and an additional off-street parking space. Frank Smith’s Long Island-based H2M Architects + Engineers is the architect of record. The 25-foot-wide, 2,375-square-foot lot is currently vacant.

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41-04 27th Street

Nine-Story, 32-Unit Mixed-Use Building Rises At 41-04 27th Street, Long Island City

1:00 pm on March 24, 2016 By Reid Wilson

In October of 2015, YIMBY revealed a rendering of the nine-story, 32-unit mixed-use building underway at 41-04 27th Street, in the Queens Plaza section of Long Island City. At the time, foundation work was underway, but now the structure is five stories above street level and rising, according to The Court Square Blog. The new building, dubbed Queens Boro Tower, will encompass 30,355 square feet and will feature 4,073 square feet of ground-floor retail space. Its residential units should average 654 square feet apiece, indicative of rental apartments. The Schedule A lists a fitness center in the cellar as an amenity. Rego Park-based Great Stone Development is behind the project and Chang Hwa Tan’s Queens-based Tan Architect is designing. Completion can probably be expected by 2017.

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153-03 41st Avenue

Three-Story, 17,000-Square-Foot Multi-Use Building Filed At 153-03 41st Avenue, Murray Hill

11:00 am on March 24, 2016 By Reid Wilson

Property owners Byung Woo Lim and Ouk Ja Lim, doing business as an anonymous Long Island-based LLC, have been filing applications since June of 2014 for a three-story, 17,167-square-foot multi-use community facility at 153-03 41st Avenue (a.k.a. 40-23 – 40-27 Murray Street), in Queens’s Murray Hill. According to the latest filing, the new building will include a doctor’s office on part of the ground floor and a daycare on the rest of the ground floor and the entire second and third floors. The cellar will feature a 10-car parking garage. The 75-foot-wide property is currently occupied by two two-and-a-half-story buildings and is located three blocks from the neighborhood’s Long Island Rail Road station. Suk Hwan Kim’s Flushing-based Design Group In H&K is the architect of record.

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200 East 95th Street

30-Story, 83-Unit Condominium Tower Rises Above Grade At 200 East 95th Street, Upper East Side

10:00 am on March 24, 2016 By Reid Wilson

Back in October of 2015, foundation work was underway at Extell Development’s 30-story, 83-unit mixed-use building at 200 East 95th Street (a.k.a. 1681 Third Avenue), on the Upper East Side. YIMBY now has photos from Tectonic that show rebar rising from the construction site into the air. Work on the ground floor is currently underway on the 317,664-square-foot building, dubbed The Kent, which will include 13,225 square feet of retail space across the ground and cellar levels. There will be 83 condominium units, ranging from two- to five-bedrooms, in the 367-foot-tall tower. The residences should average over 3,000 square feet apiece, and amenities listed in the Schedule A include a gym, a pool & sauna, bike storage, residential lounges and playrooms, a “music room,” and an outdoor terrace on the second floor. Beyer Blinder Belle is designing the project. Completion is expected in 2017.

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Future Midtown skyline

New York City’s 2015 Population Increases to 8,550,405, Up 55,211 From 2014

8:00 am on March 24, 2016 By Nikolai Fedak

Last year, we reported that New York City’s population had increased by 52,700 people between 2013 and 2014, hitting 8,491,079, and nearing what the city had previously projected for 2020. Today, the American Community Survey released updated data as of July 1st, 2015, showing another large increase of 55,211, putting the five boroughs’ population at 8,550,405 — just 502 people short of the official 2020 projection.

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