39 South Elliott Place

Four-Story, Two-Unit Residential Project Filed At 39 South Elliott Place, Fort Greene

11:00 am on November 18, 2015 By Reid Wilson

Ana Eskreis, head of Max Studio, has filed applications for a four-story, two-unit residential building at 39 South Elliott Place, in Fort Greene. That’s steps away from the G train’s Fulton Street stop and the C train’s Lafayette Avenue stop. The building will measure 2,472 square feet in total. Triplex units will span the cellar through second floors and a duplex will take up the upper two floors. The project is being designed in-house.

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30-49 38th Street

Five-Story, Seven-Unit Residential Building Planned At 30-49 38th Street, Astoria

10:00 am on November 18, 2015 By Reid Wilson

Property owner George Elliott, doing business as an anonymous LLC, has filed applications for a five-story, seven-unit residential building at 30-49 38th Street, in Astoria, eight blocks east of the N and Q trains’ stop at 30th Avenue. The building will measure 4,981 square feet in total, which means units will average a rental-sized 712 square feet apiece. New Jersey-based T.F. Cusanelli & Filletti Architects is the applicant of record, and permits were filed in July to demolish an existing two-story, multi-family townhouse.

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52-09 31st Place, rendering by ARC Architecture and Design

First Look: 52-09 31st Place, Long Island City Hotel

8:00 am on November 18, 2015 By Rebecca Baird-Remba

The administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio has decided to tamp down on hotel development in industrial zones, but dozens of hotels are already on the rise in Long Island City’s manufacturing areas. YIMBY has a rendering of a 20-story hotel in the works at 52-09 31st Place, in a particularly forlorn and polluted micro-hood known as Blissville.

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The Edgar J. Kaufman Conference Center (left) and 809 United Nations Plaza (right). LPC photos.

Midtown East’s Edgar J. Kaufman Conference Center Gets Landmarks Hearing

7:30 am on November 18, 2015 By Evan Bindelglass

As the New York City Landmarks Preservation works to clear the backlog of items on its calendar for consideration since before 2010, it has mostly dealt with buildings, a.k.a. potential individual landmarks. However, there have been some interiors considered, such as the Osborne Apartments lobby. Another such case is the Edgar J. Kaufman Conference Center at 809 United Nations Plaza in Midtown East.

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32 New York Avenue, image via Google Maps32 New York Avenue, image via Google Maps

Permits Filed: 32 New York Avenue, Bed-Stuy

7:00 am on November 18, 2015 By Rebecca Baird-Remba

The two short blocks between Atlantic Avenue and Fulton Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant were once considered undesirable for residential development, because they’re sandwiched between two bustling commercial thoroughfares and two noisy train lines—the elevated Long Island Railroad along Atlantic and the A and C subways rumbling just below Fulton Street. They were transitional, slightly industrial, and the victims of urban renewal schemes. But now developers priced out of the more desirable parts of Bed-Stuy and Crown Heights are looking here, and noticing the benefits of brownstone blocks so close to the train. One such builder filed plans for a five-story residential project at 32 New York Avenue, between Herkimer Street and Atlantic Avenue.

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