Permits have been filed for an eight-story mixed-use building at 169 Livonia Avenue in Brownsville, Brooklyn. Located at the corner of Thomas S. Boyland Street and Livonia Avenue, the lot is three blocks west of the Rockaway Avenue subway station, serviced by the 3 train. LM Development Partners is listed as the owner behind the applications.
Permits have been filed for an 11-story mixed-use building at 337 East 162nd Street in Concourse, The Bronx. Located between Courtlandt Avenue and the Metro North Harlem Line, the corner lot is directly adjacent to the Melrose station on the Metro North train. The site is also eight blocks east of the 161 Street-Yankee Stadium subway station, serviced by the B, D, and 4 trains. New York City Housing Authority is listed as the owner behind the applications.
The sixth floor is under construction at 410 Manhattan Avenue, an affordable housing complex next to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway in northern Williamsburg. Fifty units will take up 43,055 square feet of the seven-story, 52,065-square-foot building. A community room and parking for about 50 cars and 26 bicycles is also included within the scope. Prominent Williamsburg developer Simon Dushinsky of the Rabsky Group is in charge of the project, with HLS Builders Corp attached as the general contractor. Curtis + Ginsberg is the architect of record, and Rodkin Cardinale Consulting are listed as engineers.
Nelson Management paid $51.5 million for the four-building, rent-stabilized complex known as Lafayette Boynton in the Soundview section of the South Bronx in 2011, and they just spent another $17 million renovating its 972 apartments. Now the Forest Hills-based firm plans to build two more 13-story towers in the sprawling development next to Soundview Park.
The Bed Stuy Blog has noticed that excavation is well underway at 1320-1328 Fulton Street, on the southern edge of Bedford-Stuyvesant, where a 10-story, 57-unit mixed-use building is being prepared. Fulton Street South Redevelopment Company broke ground late last year, and completion is expected in February 2016, per on-site signage.