Permits have been filed for two residential buildings at 2334-2336 Dean Street in Brownsville, Brooklyn. Located between Rockaway Avenue and Eastern Parkway, the adjacent lots are four blocks south of the Rockaway Avenue subway station, serviced by the A and C trains. Frontgate Management is listed as the owner behind the applications.
Work on the reconstruction of the historic Tin Building is making swift progress in the South Street Seaport District. Located on the rebuilt Pier 17 and next to the FDR Drive, the three-story steel-framed structure is being rebuilt 32 feet away from its original location and six feet higher above sea level. The 53,000-square-foot commercial project is designed by SHoP Architects and developed by the Howard Hughes Corporation, with Plaza Construction as the construction manager.
The new and upgraded Elizabeth H. Berger Plaza is quickly taking shape in the Financial District. The project combines two underutilized concrete plazas and merges them together to form a singular green public space that measures about two-thirds of an acre. George Vellonakis is the landscape architect of the property, which sits on what used to be a neighborhood called Little Syria. The park is named after the late Downtown Alliance president Elizabeth Berger, who died in 2013.
Proposals from the Bridge Rockaway Housing Development Fund Company reveal a new mixed-use housing development in the Brownsville section of eastern Brooklyn. The residential portion of the building would yield up to 124 affordable homes and 62 supportive housing units. The structure’s remaining footprint would house 39,000 square feet of light manufacturing space and 3,400 square feet for community facility space.
Permits have been filed for a six-story mixed-use building at 408 Lefferts Avenue in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn. Located at the intersection of New York Avenue and Lefferts Avenue, the lot is near the Sterling Street subway station, serviced by the 2 and 5 trains. Tolib Mansurov under the 410 Lefferts LLC is listed as the owner behind the applications.
