The Durst Organization recently announced that Pueblo Querido Coffee Roasters, a Colombian coffee proprietor and restaurant, has opened its first Queens location on the ground floor of Sven, a residential tower at 29-37 41st Avenue in Long Island City, Queens. Pueblo Querido is joining Finback Brewery and ACA Acupuncture and Wellness, the other ground-floor tenants of the 71-story property.
Permits have been filed to expand a one-story structure into an eight mixed-use building at 2616 Cropsey Avenue in Gravesend, Brooklyn. Located between 26th Avenue and Firefighter Joseph Patrick Henry Lane, the lot is near the Bay 50 Street subway station, serviced by the D train. Leonid Bogomolniy under the 2616 Crop LLC is listed as the owner behind the applications.
Permits have been filed for a four-story residential building at 779 East 181st Street in Crotona, The Bronx. Located between Mapes Avenue and East 181st Street, the lot is near the West Farms Square-East Tremont Avenue subway station, serviced by the 2 and 5 trains. Giergj Bujaj is listed as the owner behind the applications.
Construction has topped out on 18 West 55th Street, a 26-story residential building in Midtown, Manhattan. Designed by Morris Adjmi Architects and developed and built by Skyline Developers, which purchased the property for $83 million in 2017 under the 18 West 55th Street LLC, the 289-foot-tall structure will span 152,084 square feet and yield 97 rental units with an average scope of 1,319 square feet, as well as 6,380 square feet of ground-floor commercial space and a 10,343-square-foot cellar level. The project is located on a formerly vacant interior lot between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, next to the Peninsula Hotel.
Work is progressing on the expansion of Bushwick Inlet Park in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Designed by Abel Bainnson Butz, LLP and developed by the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation and the non-profit group Friends of Bushwick Inlet Park, the $9.8 million project involves the transformation of a two-acre parcel known as Motiva at the northernmost end of the waterfront park. Construction broke ground in March on the property, which had formerly sat unutilized and overgrown, and environmental remediation efforts are being undertaken in parallel with the park’s construction. The park is being created as part of the nearly 40-acre Greenpoint-Williamsburg Open Space Master Plan and is bound by Quay Street to the north and Franklin Street to the east.
