YIMBY checked in on the progress of eleven office-to-residential conversions underway in Manhattan. The projects, located in the Financial District, Tribeca, NoHo, Midtown, and Hell’s Kitchen, will repurpose the underutilized properties into nearly 3,000 new housing units.
Freedom Village, a new $54 million affordable housing development at 270 East 2nd Street in the Alphabet City section of Manhattan’s East Village, has officially opened. Designed by JCJ Architecture and developed by Barrier Free Living, the 13-story building contains 74 apartments for survivors of domestic violence and older adults who have experienced homelessness. The project replaces a former school building that had served as transitional housing for roughly three decades and marks a return to the site where Barrier Free Living was founded in 1981.
New renderings have been revealed for 50-58 Cliff Street, a forthcoming 24-story all-affordable residential tower in Lower Manhattan’s Financial District. Designed by Dattner Architects and developed by Trinity Church and Settlement Housing Fund, the structure is slated to yield 120 below-market-rate rental units, with 18 dedicated to formerly homeless individuals. The nearly $70 million project would also include ground-floor social services. The 6,000-square-foot property is located near the corner of Cliff and Fulton Streets.
Centre 360, a new free public observatory, opened today atop the David N. Dinkins Municipal Building at 1 Centre Street in the Civic Center section of Lower Manhattan. The experience is located more than 500 feet high within the Beaux-Arts cupola of the landmarked 40-story skyscraper, and is part of a $6 million renovation by the Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS). The property is located at the corner of Centre and Reade Streets, directly east of City Hall.
The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) is set to review a proposal for new two-story commercial building at 144 Spring Street in Soho, Manhattan. Designed by BKSK Architects for 144 Spring Holdings LLC, an affiliate of City Urban Realty, the proposal replaces an earlier glass-clad design approved by the LPC in 2016 and designed by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson. The property is located at the corner of Spring and Wooster Streets within the Soho-Cast Iron Historic District.
