Eliot Spitzer Updates YIMBY On 420 Kent Avenue in Williamsburg and His Company’s Forthcoming Hudson Yards Developments

While construction is booming across the entirety of Williamsburg’s waterfront, one of the first mega-projects of this development cycle to wrap will be 420 Kent Avenue’s three residential towers. Totaling 857 units, the last two buildings are preparing for an imminent opening day. YIMBY sat down with the project’s developer Eliot Spitzer of Spitzer Enterprises to discuss the latest happenings at the ODA-designed site, the former governor’s plans for Hudson Yards, and the perils of potential population loss across the five boroughs.

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Completed view of the new Engineering Innovation Hub (EIH) at SUNY New Paltz (Photo by Ola Wilk/Wilk Marketing Communications)

SUNY New Paltz Completes $13.5 Million Engineering Innovation Hub in Hudson Valley, New York

The State University of New York at New Paltz this week celebrated the completion of a $13.5 million Engineering Innovation Hub located on the institution’s Hudson Valley campus. Designed by Urbahn Architects, the two-story building comprises 19,500 square feet and serves as a central headquarters for the university’s bachelor’s degree program in mechanical engineering that has seen rapid enrollment growth since launching in 2014.

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