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120 West 118th Street

Work Wrapping Up on Five-Story, Five-Unit Residential Conversion at 120 West 118th Street, Harlem

Moshe Granit, doing business as an anonymous Midtown-based LLC, is wrapping up construction of a five-story, five-unit residential conversion project at 120 West 118th Street, in Harlem. The apartment building was formerly a 12-unit SRO (single-room occupancy), but now is being returned to legal status as a five-family property, Harlem+Bespoke reports. In the process, the structure received a single-story addition, increasing the building’s square-footage to 9,300 square feet. With 6,360 square feet in residential space, the units should average a spacious 1,272 square feet, indicative of condominiums. Mati Yaacobi’s NoMad-based MYLM Architects is the architect of record. The building sits within the Mount Morris Park Historic District Extension, which was designated in 2015.


163 6th Street

1,600-Unit Self-Storage Facility Planned at 163 6th Street, Gowanus

Storage Deluxe is planning to develop a 1,600-unit self-storage facility at 163 6th Street, in Gowanus, located five blocks from the 9th Street-Fourth Avenue stop on the F/G/R trains. CubeSmart will be operating the facility. The developer ground-leased the 38,125-square-foot property earlier this year in a $10 million deal, DNAinfo reports. Since the site is located within an M1-2 district, the site could accommodate up to 76,250 square feet of commercial or industrial space. Sixth Street Iron & Metal currently conducts their business out of a 4,000 square-foot warehouse on the site, and is planning to move across the street. Demolition permits and new buildings applications have not been filed yet.




Gulliver's Gate

Plans for ‘Gulliver’s Gate’ Tourist Attraction Move Forward at 216 West 44th Street, Times Square

Late last year, news broke that E&M Associates and Eiran Gazit were planning to build a 49,000-square-foot Times Square tourist attraction in part of the 12-story former New York Times Building, an individual landmark at 229 West 43rd Street and 216 West 44th Street (the north building is not landmarked), in Midtown. Now, the team has filed plans with the Department of Buildings for the project, dubbed Gulliver’s Gate, The Real Deal reports. The ground floor portion will include the reception and ticketing areas, as well as a gift shop, while the second will host the main exhibit. The project is expected to begin the city’s Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP) shortly. It also requites exterior alterations to the 43rd Street side, which will need to be approved by the Landmarks Preservation Commission. Last November, the team signed a 15-year lease for part of the ground floor and the entire second floor of the building. Kushner Companies acquired the retail portion of the property, which also contains office space, in early 2015 for $296 million. If all goes as planned, completion can be expected in 2017. Stanley Wong’s SP WONG Architect is the architect of record.


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