1444 3rd Avenue [A Fine Blog]: Filed in Summer 2014, renderings from ODA Architecture have resurfaced for a planned 10-story, nine-unit mixed-use building measuring nearly 25,300 square feet at 1444 3rd Avenue, on the Upper East Side. Demolition is underway to remove the existing four-story building.
31 Ainslie Street: Meyer Chetrit has filed applications at 29-37 Ainslie Street, in Williamsburg, for a five-story, 14-unit residential building. The building is associated with plans for a 14-story mixed-use building with residential units, hotel rooms and retail space at 500 Metropolitan Avenue. Kutnicki Bernstein is designing, and an old single-story warehouse was demolished in 2013.
The Department of Buildings recently approved plans to transform a humble three-story brick storefront with apartments in Williamsburg into this metallic-looking six-story building. The century-old building at 555 Grand Street will expand from two apartments to 12, and gain 3,000 square feet of residential space for a new total of 8,668 square feet.
2183 3rd Avenue [Curbed]: Sharon Kahren and Haim Levi are developing a 12-story, 59-unit rental building measuring 64,000 square feet at the vacant lot of 2183 3rd Avenue, in East Harlem. Excavation is currently underway, and completion is expected “early next year.”
Developers are snapping up lots near the BQE in East Williamsburg every chance they get, and now the increasingly pricey hood will get a six-story mixed-use apartment building at 387 Manhattan Avenue. New building applications were filed today for the 18,429-square-foot development, which will fill a vacant lot between Frost and Withers Streets, half a block from the highway and Meeker Avenue.