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Developer Acquires Vacant Property At 34 East 62nd Street, Upper East Side

4:00 pm on August 20, 2015 By Reid Wilson

Rye, NY-based Woodbine Company has purchased the development site at 34 East 62nd Street, on the Upper East Side, for $11.9 million from Russian developer Janna Bullock. Back in 2007, she filed permits for a five-story townhouse, but plans stalled out. The vacant property has 8,000 square feet of development rights, but can be expanded by 6,000 square feet with the purchase of additional air rights. No new building applications have been filed.

Extell To Expand Assemblage With 350 East 86th Street Purchase, Upper East Side

10:00 am on August 19, 2015 By Reid Wilson

Extell Development is in contract to purchase the single-story grocery store at 350 East 86th Street, on the Upper East Side, for $100 million, Crain’s reports. The developer also owns neighboring sites, and can build a 20-story, 230,000 square-foot condominium building, with 200 units and retail space. The acquisition is expected to close next year, also when Gristedes’ lease expires. Extell’s plans have yet to be disclosed, and assemblage could be expanded with further acquisitions.

Six-Story, Six-Unit Residential Building Filed At 316 East 81st Street, Upper East Side

6:30 am on August 17, 2015 By Reid Wilson

The head of the Midtown-based law firm King & Spalding has filed applications for a six-story, six-unit residential building at 316 East 81st Street, on the Upper East Side, in Yorkville. The building will measure 11,660 square feet in total, and units will likely be condominiums, averaging 1,943 square feet apiece. Issac & Stern is designing, and an old three-story townhouse must first be demolished; the building was purchased in 2012 for $3.2 million.

42-Story, 362-Unit Mixed-Use Tower Rising At 1 West End Avenue, Lincoln Square

6:30 am on August 14, 2015 By Reid Wilson

Late last year, YIMBY revealed renderings of Silverstein Properties’ and Elad Group’s 42-story, 362-unit mixed-use building being developed at 1 West End Avenue, in Lincoln Square, and now the building is four stories above street level, courtesy of Tectonic, per Curbed. The building will feature retail space on the ground floor and a portion of the basement level, followed by 116 below-market rate apartments on the second through seventh floors. Up top, there will be 246 condominiums, with the first renderings surfacing for those back in June.

Icon Realty Planning Mixed-Use Building At 1538 2nd Avenue, Upper East Side

6:30 am on August 12, 2015 By Reid Wilson

Last year, YIMBY brought you news of Icon Realty’s planned 14-story, 12-unit mixed-use building at 1562 2nd Avenue, on the Upper East Side, and now the developer is planning another luxury residential and retail building at 1538-1546 2nd Avenue, a block to the south, between 80th and 81st Streets. According to the New York Post, demolition is underway to remove existing tenement buildings. Although applications are not on file for 1538 2nd Avenue, construction is expected to start in early 2016, or around the same time as their project at 1562 2nd Avenue.

Mixed-Use Building Gets Glassy At 5 West 125th Street, Harlem

6:00 am on August 11, 2015 By Reid Wilson

Excavation was well underway back in 2013, when YIMBY reported on a large commercial project planned at 5-15 West 125th Street, in central Harlem. Since then, the project’s scope has increased from four to six stories, and also now includes a residential component of 30 units. The block-thru building is expected to have 75,000 square feet of commercial space, spanning from the cellar to the third floor, and the shorter 125th Street side is now getting its façade, per Harlem+Bespoke. The taller end on 126th Street is rising at a slower pace. Rosenbaum Design Group is the architect of record.

Bedrock Tests Underway At 200 Amsterdam Avenue, Lincoln Square

6:00 am on August 7, 2015 By Reid Wilson

Bedrock exploration is now taking place at 200 Amsterdam Avenue, near 70th Street in Lincoln Square, according to West Side Rag. Earlier this year, the site — which has 388,000 square feet of development rights — was placed on the market with an asking price of more than $400 million. It’s unknown who exactly is behind the tests, as a developer and architect have not been disclosed. Demolition permits for the existing structure have not yet been filed.

257 West 114th Street, image via Google Maps

Permits Filed: Randolph Houses Renovation, 251-277 West 114th Street, Harlem

5:00 pm on August 6, 2015 By Rebecca Baird-Remba

Last year, the city’s housing authority announced plans to renovate Randolph Houses in Harlem, a block-long stretch of old law tenements on 114th Street between Frederick Douglass and Adam Clayton Powell Boulevards. Now NYCHA has filed alteration permits to combine 14 of those buildings into a single structure.

New Building Likely Planned At 2255 Broadway, Upper West Side

6:00 am on July 31, 2015 By Reid Wilson

The three-story commercial building spanning 2251-2259 Broadway, at West 81st Street on the Upper West Side, is expected to be demolished to make way for a new development, according to West Side Rag. The retail tenants are currently in the relocation process, and developer Alchemy Properties is leasing the property from the owner. Building applications and demolition permits have not been filed yet, although the property’s unused air rights were subdivided from the existing structure in April.

206 West 95th Street in April 2014, photo by Christopher Bride for PropertyShark

Permits Filed: 206 West 95th Street, Upper West Side

4:05 pm on July 29, 2015 By Rebecca Baird-Remba

Much of the Upper West Side is frozen in time by historic districts, but every once in a while, a developer manages to snag an older property in a non-landmarked piece of the neighborhood. New building applications were filed earlier today to erect a 10-story building at 206 West 95th Street, half a block from the 96th Street station on the 1, 2 and 3 lines.

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