The affordable housing lottery has launched for Turin HDFC, a 19-story cooperative building at 609 Columbus Avenue on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Built in 1971, the structure yields 188 residences. Available on NYC Housing Connect are 24 resale units for residents at 165 percent of the area median income (AMI), ranging in eligible income from $135,709 to $326,205.
Permits have been filed for an eight-story residential building at 233 East 202nd Street in Jerome Park, The Bronx. Located between Grand Concourse and Valentine Avenue, the interior lot is one block from the Bedford Park Boulevard subway station, serviced by the B and D trains. Franc Gjini under the 2625 Grand Avenue Corp. is listed as the owner behind the applications.
Construction is nearing completion on the Urban League Empowerment Center, a 17-story mixed-use building at 121 West 125th Street in Harlem, Manhattan. Designed by Beyer Blinder Belle and developed by The Prusik Group, BRP Companies, L+M Development Partners, and Taconic Partners, the 414-000-square-foot structure will yield 170 affordable housing units, 70,000 square feet of Class A office space, and 110,000 square feet of retail area including a Target and a 28,000-square-foot Trader Joe’s on the ground floor. The development will serve as the home for the National Urban League and the Urban Civil Rights Experience Museum. Congress Builders is the general contractor for the property, which is located between West 126th Street to the north, 125th Street to the south, Malcolm X Boulevard to the east, and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard to the west.
Renderings from OPerA Studio Architecture are the first to reveal a new condominium building at 222 North 8th Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. When the project was initially filed with the Department of Buildings, WSQ Global was the project’s developer.
The affordable housing lottery has launched for 168 West 136th Street, an eight-story residential building in Manhattan’s Central Harlem. Designed by architect Nicholas Kazalas and developed by Haussmann Development and Coltown Properties, the structure yields 27 rental units. Available on NYC Housing Connect are nine units for residents at 130 percent of the area median income (AMI), ranging in eligible income from $107,658 to $198,250.
