A long vacant piece of Staten Island is finally seeing new life, now that plans have been filed for 11 townhouses along a city-owned stretch of Bloomingdale Road in Charleston, a small neighborhood at the southwestern edge of the island.
In July, YIMBY brought you word that the owners of the Staten Island Mall were seeking permission from the city to add nearly half a million square feet of new space without building any new parking….
The Stapleton waterfront, on Staten Island’s North Shore, is positively booming with development activity – or, at least, as close to booming as the city’s sparsest borough gets. At the old Homeport site, a 35-acre decommissioned naval…
Staten Island is better known for its single-family homes and driveways than multifamily dwellings, but pretty soon, a new apartment tower will rise. This fall, Lighthouse Point on the North Shore, a stone’s throw away from the Staten…
Here at YIMBY, we often cover skyscraping towers for the elite, or at the very least, low-slung buildings for the wealthy. But the other day, trawling through building permits, we came across a development of a very different…
