Permits have been filed to expand a two-story structure into a four-story residential building at 489 Grand Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Located between Union Avenue and Borinquen Place, the lot is near the Metropolitan Avenue-Lorimer Street subway station, serviced by the G and L trains. Aryeh Mendlowic is listed as the owner behind the applications.
Construction is nearing completion on 1515 Surf Avenue, a two-tower residential project along the Coney Island waterfront in Brooklyn. Designed by Studio V Architecture and developed by LCOR, the 16- and 26-story structures will span 470,000 square feet and yield 324 units in one- and two-bedroom layouts, with 139 apartments designated for affordable housing, as well as 10,600 square feet of ground-floor retail space. The property is located on a 1.5-acre plot bound by Surf Avenue to the south, West 15th Street to the east, and West 16th Street to the west.
Curtain wall installation is progressing on The Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Tower, a 12-story waterfront expansion of the Hospital For Special Surgery at 535 East 70th Street in the Lenox Hill section of Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Designed by EwingCole, the $200 million addition will span 100,000 square feet directly over FDR Drive and connect the main hospital wing to the south via a sky bridge. Tishman Construction Corp. is the general contractor for the property, which is located between East 71st and 72nd Streets.
Institutional investment fund sponsor Foss & Company and environmental nonprofit Scenic Hudson have closed on a former manufacturing facility at 58 Parker Avenue and 164 Garden Street in Poughkeepsie. This historic tax credit project will see an extensive renovation and reinvention for five interconnected Standard Gage manufacturing buildings, which have been vacant since the company’s departure from the area in 2002.
The affordable housing lottery has launched for Burrelli NYC Apartments, a seven-story mixed-use building at 23-09 Broadway in Astoria, Queens. Designed by NDKazalas Architecture and developed by Ilir Cupi under the Everest 2309 Broadway LLC, the structure yields 10 residences. Available on NYC Housing Connect are three units for residents at 130 percent of the area median income (AMI), ranging in eligible income from $77,143 to $218,010.
