Permits have been filed for an eight-story building at 11-35 31st Drive in Astoria, Queens. Located between Vernon Boulevard and 12th Street, the lot is ten blocks west of the 30th Avenue subway station, serviced by the N and W trains. Li Qing of Blue Mountain Capital, LLC is listed as the owner behind the applications.
Standing nine stories tall directly across from Chelsea Market, 61 Ninth Avenue sits in the heart of the Meatpacking District. Designed by Rafael Vinoly Architects, the new 170,000 square foot commercial structure rises 135 feet tall. Vornado Realty Trust and Aurora Capital are the developers of the project.
A new condominium residence from R+B Development will soon take shape in Spuyten Duyvil, a historied, Dutch-borne neighborhood of The Bronx that has, in some ways, matured into a suburb for the upper middle class. The project is located at 3128 Henry Hudson Parkway and YIMBY has the exclusive new renderings of the rising structure, designed by C3D Architecture.
Following the sale of a historic Manhattan townhouse at 29 Downing Street, the new owners have commissioned a restoration of the structure’s facade and the installation of a new entryway to the ground floor storefront. Completed in 1829, the townhouse measures 3,480 square feet and was constructed on land once owned by Aaron Burr, the third Vice President of the United States.
Full demolition permits have been filed for a couple of two-story buildings at 2328-2330 Broadway on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The office buildings were built in 1910, and cumulatively yield 18,870 square feet of space. Plans for the lot are underway by developers Welltower and Hines, which include luxury housing for seniors.
