Permits have been filed for a three-story affordable housing building at 190 Essex Street in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn. Located between Fulton Street and Folsom Place, the lot is two blocks east of the Cleveland Street subway station, serviced by the J train. The city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development is listed as the owner behind the applications.
YIMBY recently went on a hard-hat tour of Kohn Pedersen Fox’s One Vanderbilt. The topped-out 1,401-foot supertall is currently the tallest skyscraper in Midtown East and the third tallest in the city by architectural height, when measured to the tip of the 100-foot-tall spire. SL Green is the developer of the 77-story commercial office property, which is set to have a three-story indoor and outdoor observatory perched 1,020 feet above the busy Midtown streets. The crown will eventually be covered in a glass curtain wall that should most likely be lighter in appearance than the mixed terracotta and glass assembly that covers the rest of the structure.
Foundation work is progressing rapidly at 50 Trinity Place, as steel rebar and formwork for the sub-story levels are now reaching street level. Excavation and pilings were still ongoing at the time of YIMBY’s late-July update and now work will soon commence for the superstructure of the ground-up Aloft Hotel. Located in the Financial District at the corner of Trinity Place and Rector Street, diagonally across from Trinity Church, the hotel is designed by Peter Poon Architects. FIT Investment Corporation is the developer of the project, and purchased the Lower Manhattan site for $15 million from Sam Chang in 2012.
Developers have revealed new renderings of a rising mixed-use building at 23-20 Jackson Avenue in Long Island City, Queens. The development is designed by KSQ Architects and will top out at nine stories, comprising 85,851 square feet.
Permits have been filed for a 12-story mixed-use building at 72-01 Queens Boulevard in Elmhurst, Queens. Located between 72nd Street and 73rd Street, the lot is near the Elmhurst Avenue subway station, serviced by the M and R trains. The Hakimian Organization under the Woodside Development Group LLC is listed as the owner behind the applications.
