Permits have been filed for a seven-story mixed-use building at 23-29 Astoria Boulevard in Astoria, Queens. Located between 23rd Street and Crescent Street, the lot is near the Astoria Boulevard subway station, serviced by the N and W trains. Elton Lalaj of 2357 LLC is listed as the owner behind the applications.
Façade installation is moving along on 125 West 57th Street, a 26-story commercial building on Billionaires’ Row in Midtown, Manhattan. Designed by FXCollaborative and developed by Alchemy-ABR Investment Partners and Cain International, the 420-foot-tall structure will yield 260,000 square feet with 185,000 square feet of full-floor Class A office space, a dedicated amenities floor designed by Gensler, 7,000 square feet of retail space, and a new home for the Calvary Baptist Church, which has operated on the site since 1883 and sold the property to the developers for $150 million in 2017. The property is located on an interior lot between Sixth and Seventh Avenues between Christian de Portzamparc‘s One57 and SHoP Architects‘ 111 West 57th Street.
IMPACCT Brooklyn recently celebrated the opening of 811 Lexington Avenue, a new affordable housing development designed specifically for low-income seniors and elderly individuals in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. The 63-unit development, which was designed by Think!, aims to address the need for affordable housing among seniors in the area. The site was formerly occupied by a parking lot and a vacant industrial building that once housed the Mars Fudge and Fruit Company.
Permits have been filed for a five-story mixed-use building at 836 East 34th Street in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. Located between Glenwood Road and Farragut Road, the lot is near the Newkirk Avenue-Little Haiti subway station, serviced by the 2 and 5 trains. Matine Duroseau is listed as the owner behind the applications.
Permits have been filed for a four-story residential building at 406 East 153rd Street in Melrose, The Bronx. Located between Melrose Avenue and Elton Avenue, the lot is near the 3 Avenue-149 Street subway station, serviced by the 2 and 5 trains. Yoel Kahan of HSK Management Inc. is listed as the owner behind the applications.
