The affordable housing lottery has launched for 195 Herzl Street, a four-story residential building in Brownsville, Brooklyn. Designed by Wu (Woody) Chen of Infocus and developed by Yehuda Vaknin, the structure yields eight residences with a cellar and penthouse. Available on NYC Housing Connect are three units for residents at 130 percent of the area median income (AMI), ranging in eligible income from $69,429 to $156,130.
The ninth-tallest building on our December countdown is 520 Fifth Avenue, a 995-foot-tall mixed-use supertall in Midtown, Manhattan. Designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox and developed by Rabina, which took over from Ceruzzi Properties and SMI USA in 2019, the 76-story structure will span 507,608 square feet and yield 98 residential units, commercial space, and four cellar levels. WSP is the structural engineer, DeSimone Consulting Engineers is the facade consultant, and Suffolk Construction is the general contractor for the property, which is located at the northwest corner of Fifth Avenue and West 43rd Street.
Permits have been filed for a four-story residential building at 1201 St. Marks Avenue in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Located between Utica Avenue and Rochester Avenue, the lot is near the Utica Avenue subway station, serviced by the A and C trains. Amit Gera of Five Star Hotel Group is listed as the owner behind the applications.
At number 12 on our year-end countdown of the tallest buildings under construction in New York is 27-48 Jackson Avenue, a 69-story residential skyscraper in Long Island City‘s Court Square district and the future tallest building in Queens. Designed by Perkins Eastman and developed by Building Orchard LLC, the 811-foot-tall structure will yield 635,000 square feet with 818 units, as well as 11,700 square feet of retail space and a two-story parking garage. Triton Construction Company is the general contractor for the property, which is alternately addressed as 43-01 Queens Street and located along Jackson Avenue between Queens and Orchard Streets.
Permits have been filed for a five-story residential building at 152 Meserole Avenue in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Located at the intersection of McGuinness Boulevard and Meserole Avenue, the lot is within walking distance of the Nassau Avenue subway station, serviced by the G train. Balkrishen Tuli of Consort Construction and Development under the 152 Meserole Avenue LLC is listed as the owner behind the applications.
