While new towers like 56 Leonard and 30 Park Place are quickly changing the northern edge of the Lower Manhattan skyline, new residential development further south has been relatively sparse. 50 West Street is finally changing…
In April, DNAinfo reported that a permit had been filed to build a 45-unit residential building on the site of an old Gulf gas station at the corner of Myrtle and Vanderbilt, near the border between Fort…
In June, Crain’s reported that Tishman Speyer and Toronto-based H&R Real Estate Investment Trust were teaming up to build three apartment towers in Long Island City, with a grand total of 1,600 rental units. Now,…
Among New York City progressives, a common refrain is that real estate developers won’t build housing that’s affordable to middle-class New Yorkers on their own, so they must be forced into it through programs like mandatory inclusionary…
Earlier this fall, filmmaker Andrew Padilla got his hands on the massing diagram of Forest City Ratner’s proposed East River Plaza redevelopment. The portion of the mall on FDR Drive between East 117th and 119th Streets would give rise to three fifty-odd-story buildings. And now,…
