New York’s Financial District has seen a tremendous residential boom over the past few decades – its nighttime population doubled from 2000 to 2010 to 40,000 – as developers convert obsolete office towers in a declining business district…
Lot by lot, northwestern Crown Heights – or at least, the parts that are zoned for housing – is slowly being filled in, as the neighborhood continues its rapid transformation from marginal area on brownstone Brooklyn’s gentrifying fringe,…
Over the week, a new building permit application was filed by Nobutaka Ashihara Architect for a 22-story hotel at 4 West 37th Street, on the edge of the Garment District. The building, around 50,000 square feet, will…
Last month, Community Board 10, representing the southern Brooklyn neighborhoods of Bay Ridge and Dyker Heights, voted to reject the renewal of a special permit allowing 6208 Eighth Avenue – a large mixed-use project at Eighth Avenue…
The first filings are up for yet another ODA-designed building coming to the Lower East Side, this time at 173 Chrystie Street. The block is a familiar one for the firm, and they have another project…
