Permits have been filed for a three-story residential building at 62-22 61st Street in Ridgewood, Queens. Located between Metropolitan Avenue and Bleecker Street, the interior lot is also known as 62-67 60th Place. The site is within walking distance of Fresh Pond Road subway station, serviced by the M train. Cheskie Weiss under the 60th Units LLC is listed as the owner behind the applications.
Permits have been filed for a seven-story residential building at 680 Lorimer Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Located at the intersection of Meeker Avenue and Lorimer Street, the lot is four blocks north of the Lorimer Street subway station, serviced by the L train. Cheskie Weiss under the 680 Lorimer LLC is listed as the owner behind the applications.
Architect Karl Fischer’s latest development has taken rise in a buzzing corner of Brooklyn’s East Williamsburg neighborhood. When complete, the project will yield 33, 987 square feet of new residential property, 10,829 feet of prime commercial space, and a 24,070 square foot community facility. Filings also indicate enclosed parking volumes designed to accomodate up to 59 vehicles.
As property values skyrocket in the low-slung eastern edges of Williamsburg, small developers are searching for ways to boost a site’s density without spending exorbitant amounts of money on construction. Increasingly, they file their developments as alterations, rather than new buildings, which allows them to avoid building expensive underground parking. And the J-51 abatement gives landlords a break on their property taxes, in exchange for preserving at least 50% of the old building and keeping the new units rent-stabilized for up to 20 years. One of these enterprising developers has filed alteration applications to expand a little three-story brick apartment building at 196 Montrose Avenue, on the corner of Humboldt Street.
Plans have been filed to build a 12-story mixed-use development with commercial and community space at 46 Cook Street, between Graham Avenue and Humboldt Street near Bushwick Houses in East Williamsburg.
