Permits have been filed for a 12-story residential building at 220 East 179th Street in Tremont, The Bronx. Located between Grand Concourse and Anthony Avenue, the lot is near the Tremont Avenue subway station, served by the B and D trains. Yitzi Salamon is listed as the owner behind the applications.
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.
Fischer Senior Apartments, a nine-story residential building, has opened at 97 West 169th Street in Highbridge, The Bronx. Designed by Shakespeare Gordon Vlado Architects and developed by West Side Federation for Senior and Supportive Housing (WSFSSH), the structure yields 105 units. Twenty-five apartments are dedicated to affordable housing and 59 are reserved for formerly homeless adults. The property is located between Nelson and Shakespeare Avenues.
The New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) and Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) have released a Request for Proposals for a mixed-use redevelopment at 1743 86th Street in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. The project will replace the existing New Utrecht Library with a new public library and more than 200 units of 100 percent affordable housing on the library site and an adjacent city-owned parking lot. The property is located between 18th Avenue and Bay 16th Street.
Permits have been filed for a five-story mixed-use building at 750 East 35th Street in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. Located at the intersection of East 35th Street and Farragut Road, the lot is also addressed as 3423 Farragut Road. The Newkirk Av-Little Haiti subway station is the nearest transit station, served by the 2 and 5 trains. Herman Kaufman of Kay Builders Inc. is listed as the owner behind the applications.
