The affordable housing lottery has launched for 451 Tenth Avenue, a 44-story residential skyscraper in Manhattan’s Hudson Yards. Designed by Handel Architects and developed by Related Companies, the structure yields 270 residences. Available on NYC Housing Connect are 135 units for residents at 40, 60, and 120 percent of the area median income (AMI), ranging in eligible income from $29,075 to $183,000.
Greenpoint Landing Associates and Park Tower Group, alongside city and elected officials, recently celebrated the grand opening of 35 Commercial Street, a 22-story affordable housing project in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The opening of the building marks a notable step in the Greenpoint Landing master plan by providing 374 permanently affordable housing units to the campus, including 57 reserved for formerly homeless individuals. The development was completed in partnership with Breaking Ground, a nonprofit social service organization, and is located at the corner of Commercial Street and Bell Slip near the Newton Creek waterfront.
Construction is closing in on the parapet of 25-01 Queens Plaza North, a 26-story residential building in Long Island City, Queens. Designed by Handel Architects and developed by Grubb Properties, which purchased the property for $63 million in 2021, the 311-foot-tall structure will yield 417 rental units with 124 reserved for affordable housing, as well as 7,600 square feet of ground-floor retail space. 25-01 QPN Consigli Construction is the general contractor, Custom Metalcrafters is supplying the glass façade, DeSimone Consulting Engineering provided structural engineering and facade consulting services, and King Contracting Group will be responsible for installing nearly 125,000 square feet of bricks and CMU blocks for the project, which is located between Crescent and 27th Streets, directly adjacent to the elevated Queensboro Plaza station servicing the 7, N, and W trains.
Tishman Speyer has completed the acquisition of land for a new mixed-use development at 50 Hudson Street and 55 Hudson Street in Jersey City. The project, which has been designed in collaboration between Handel Architects, Marchetto Higgins Stieve Architects, and landscape architect Melillo Bauer Carman, is situated on the Hudson River waterfront and plans to yield approximately 2,000 apartments.
The affordable housing lottery has launched for 312 West 43rd Street, a 33-story mixed-use building in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan. Designed by Handel Architects and developed by National Real Estate Advisors and Taconic Partners, the structure yields 330 residences. Available on NYC Housing Connect are 82 units for residents at 40 to 120 percent of the area median income (AMI), ranging in eligible income from $32,023 to $183,000.
