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Permits Filed for 744 East 21st Street, Flatbush-Ditmas Park, Brooklyn

6:30 am on June 14, 2018 By Andrew Nelson

Permits have been filed for a seven-story residential building at 744 East 21st Street in Flatbush–Ditmas Park, Brooklyn. The site is six blocks away from the Newkirk Plaza subway station, serviced by the Q train, and eleven blocks away from the Flatbush Avenue subway station, end of the line for 2 and 5 trains, and center of a major commercial thoroughfare. Yaakov Geldzahler of Triple C Builders LLC is listed as behind the applications.

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3 World Trade Center, image by Andrew Campbell Nelson

3 World Trade Center Opens as The Fourth Completed Building at the New WTC

8:00 am on June 13, 2018 By Michael Young

3 World Trade Center, aka 175 Greenwich Street, opened its doors for the first time on June 11, 2018, with the traditional ribbon cutting ceremony hosted by Silverstein Properties. After a series of guest speakers and live performances, the ribbon was cut at 12:00PM, officially opening the building for business. Designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners and developed by Silverstein Properties, the 80-story, 1,079 foot supertall is currently the fifth tallest skyscraper in New York City, and the second tallest at the World Trade Center.

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