Residential development in Greenpoint is heating up so quickly that even less desirable spots—like a former chemical plant on a highway-like stretch of McGuiness Boulevard—can command big bucks and sprout apartment buildings. Earlier today, an…
Much of urban America, and New York City in particular, is in crisis. Cities are becoming desirable again, but planning is still stuck in the post-war mentality of decline. Rents are skyrocketing as new housing supply pales against…
Earlier today, a permit application was submitted for an unusual building in Brooklyn: five stories of commercial and community facility space, with no housing. While normally rents are not high enough in the borough to…
The area around Newtown Creek – known as East Williamsburg to some, Bushwick to others – has been progressively de-industrialized over the generations, with heavy industry giving way to less job-intensive uses like light industry,…
BRONX: 3993 White Plains Road: Applications have been filed for a single-story 4,320 square-foot commercial building at the lots 3991-3993 White Plains Road, in southern Wakefield. Howell Belanger Cestelli is designing, and the site’s two-story predecessor…