Permits have been filed for an eight-story mixed-use building at 406 Remsen Avenue in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. Located between East 58th Street and Lenox Road, the lot is closest to the Saratoga Avenue subway station, serviced by the 3 and 4 trains. Amit Tank of Samnon Associates is listed as the owner behind the applications.
Permits have been filed for a four-story residential building at 1429 East Gun Hill Road in Pelham Gardens, The Bronx. Located between Adee Avenue and Fenton Avenue, the interior lot is a five-minute walk west to the Gun Hill Road subway station, serviced by the 5 train. Ferdinand Markushi under the GF Gunhill Road LLC is listed as the owner behind the applications.
Curtain wall installation is nearing the parapet of Queens Plaza Park, aka Sven, a 762-foot-tall mixed-use skyscraper at 29-37 41st Avenue in Long Island City. Exterior work on the 67-story tower, which is the second-tallest structure in Queens, has been moving swiftly since its topping out in late June. The 978,000-square-foot project is designed by Handel Architects and is being developed by The Durst Organization, with Selldorf Architects as the interior designer. Hunter Roberts is the general contractor and Jaros, Baum & Bolles Engineering is handling the required mechanical systems for the edifice. The developers are aiming for LEED certification.
Construction is progressing behind scaffolding at 21-59 44th Drive, a six-story residential building designed by Z Architecture in Long Island City, Queens. The reinforced concrete edifice is located at the northern corner of 44th Drive and 23rd Street and is slated to yield a total of 20 units, 2,600 square feet of retail space, and 361 square feet of community facilities.
The Shubert Organization has partnered with Berg + Moss Architects to design and construct a 49-story hotel adjacent to the historic Cort Theatre at 138 West 48th Street in Midtown, Manhattan. Proposed actions also include rehabilitation of the theatre and the construction of a five-story annex that would contain a portion of the new hotel component and back-of-house theatre spaces.
