Permits have been filed to expand a three-story structure into a five-story mixed-use building at 3854 Bailey Avenue in Kingsbridge Heights, The Bronx. Located between West 238th Street and Van Cortlandt Avenue West, the lot is near the 238th Street subway station, serviced by the 1 train. Yitzi Salamon is listed as the owner behind the applications.
Construction is finished on the High Line – Moynihan Connector, an L-shaped 600-foot-long extension of the 1.5-mile High Line linking the popular elevated green park with the five-building Manhattan West complex in Midtown West. Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and James Corner Field Operations and developed in a public-private partnership between Empire State Development (ESD), Friends of the High Line, and Brookfield Properties, the $50 million project is composed of two ADA-accessible bridges that provide a safer and easier means of access to Moynihan Train Hall and Penn Station. Turner Construction Company was the general contractor for the walkway, which runs along West 30th Street between Ninth and Tenth Avenues and turns to the north at Dyer Avenue to connect to the elevated southwestern corner of the Manhattan West plaza above West 31st Street.
The Bromley Companies has unveiled a new artwork by Sam Gilliam in the redesigned lobby of 122 Fifth Avenue in Union Square, Manhattan. The painting, titled “For The ‘Friend’ (2022),” is one of the late Gilliam’s last art pieces he worked on before his passing in 2022.
The affordable housing lottery has launched for 325 Gates Avenue, a six-story mixed-use building in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Designed by ND Architecture and Design and developed by Renaissance Realty Group, the structure yields 48 residences. Available on NYC Housing Connect are 15 units for residents at 130 percent of the area median income (AMI), ranging in eligible income from $72,138 to $198,250.
Permits have been filed for a seven-story residential building at 755 East 85th Street in Canarsie, Brooklyn. Located between Glenwood Road and Flatlands Avenue, the lot is near the 105th Street subway station, serviced by the L train. Vilson Lumaj is listed as the owner behind the applications.
