City officials recently celebrated the commencement of construction on a new public health laboratory and contagion testing center at 40 West 137th Street in Harlem. The facility will serve as headquarters for New York City Public Health Laboratory and will be operated by the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
Excavation is underway at 403 East 79th Street, a 30-story medical office building in the Yorkville section of Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Designed by Perkins Eastman and developed by Extell Development Company, the structure will yield 400,000 square feet of Class A space, with the Hospital for Special Surgery as the anchor tenant, occupying 200,000 square feet across the first eight levels. Ancora Engineering is the engineer of record and Lendlease is the general contractor for the property, which is alternatively addressed as 1522 First Avenue and is located along First Avenue between East 79th and East 80th Streets.
This month, the 92nd Street Y kicked-off a multi-phase redevelopment of its historic headquarters on the Upper East Side, Manhattan. Located at 1395 Lexington Ave at the corner of East 92nd Street, the $200 million restoration project will help the organization enrich the services, events, and facilities it provides to its visitors and the local Manhattan community.
Permits have been filed for a 12-story mixed-use building at 316 West 135th Street in Harlem, Manhattan. Located between Frederick Douglass Boulevard and St. Nicholas Avenue, the lot is steps from the 135th Street subway station, serviced by the A, B, C, and D trains. Javier Martinez of Artifact Real Estate Development Company is listed as the owner behind the applications.
Renderings from Paul Chirstakos Architecture are the first to reveal a six-story, mixed-use building at 1950 Amsterdam Avenue in Washington Heights, Manhattan. Led by Reglobe Development, the building will debut as Be.Live.
