In Plain Sight, a free, yearlong public art exhibition, opened June 4 at Brooklyn Army Terminal and the Brooklyn Wholesale Meat Market in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Curated by Debra Simon of Debra Simon Art Consulting in partnership with NYCEDC and WXY architecture + urban design, the exhibition features 12 Brooklyn-based artists and uses the waterfront industrial campus as a site-specific canvas.
The affordable housing lottery has launched for 80 Ainslie Street, a seven-story residential building in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Designed by Syndicate Architecture and developed by Parkview Management, the structure yields 16 residences. Available on NYC Housing Connect are five units for residents at 130 percent of the area median income (AMI), ranging in eligible income from $85,509 to $238,160.
Permits have been filed for an eight-story mixed-use building at 611 West 181st Street in Fort George, Manhattan. Located between Wadsworth Avenue and St. Nicholas Avenue, the lot is near the 181st Street subway station, served by the 1 train. Moses Kupferstein of BBM Construction Corp. is listed as the owner behind the applications.
Renderings have been revealed for 289 Kent Avenue, a 17-story mixed-use building in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Designed by FXCollaborative for Web Holdings LLC, the 301,000-square-foot structure is slated to yield 280 rental apartments, with 70 dedicated to affordable housing. The project will also include ground-floor retail, commercial space, and community facility space. The property is located at the southeast corner of Kent Avenue and South 1st Street, directly across from the Domino Sugar redevelopment master plan.
The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) is set to review plans for the adaptive reuse of the landmarked Williamsburg Savings Bank Tower at One Hanson Place in Downtown Brooklyn. Assembled by BSE Global and Acheson Doyle Partners Architects, the proposal would convert portions of the building’s landmarked banking hall and related interior spaces into a Casa Tua Cucina food hall and dining destination while retaining and working around significant historic features of the interior.
