30-18 14th Street

Five-Story, 10-Unit Residential Building Planned at 30-18 14th Street, Astoria

1:00 pm on July 7, 2016 By Reid Wilson

Queens-based property owner Tajuddin Takoor has filed applications for a five-story, 10-unit residential building at 30-18 14th Street, in western Astoria. The structure will measure 9,378 square feet and its residential units should average 773 square feet apiece, indicative of rental apartments. There will be a single apartment on the ground floor, followed by three units each on the second, third and fourth floors. One of the fourth-floor apartments will be a duplex and will also take up the entire fifth floor. Murat Mutlu’s Garment District-based architectural firm is the architect of record. The 39-foot-wide, 3,908-square-foot lot is currently occupied by an attached two-story house. Demolition permits have not been filed. The 30th Avenue stop on the N/Q trains is seven blocks away.

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170 Eleventh Avenue

22-Story, 140-Unit Mixed-Use Building Planned at 170 Eleventh Avenue, West Chelsea

11:00 am on July 7, 2016 By Reid Wilson

Related Companies is in contract to acquire, for an undisclosed amount, the assemblage of properties at 170 Eleventh Avenue, 548-552 West 23rd Street, and 555 West 22nd Street, in West Chelsea. The developer plans to build a 22-story, 140-unit mixed-use building at the site, Curbed NY reported. New building permits have not yet been filed with the Buildings Department, although early estimates put the size of the project at 288,000 square feet. It’s unclear what the other building use will be, although both commercial and community facility space are allowed by zoning. If all four existing buildings, which range from one- to three-story commercial structures, are razed, the site would be able to accommodate a maximum 291,324 square feet of mixed-use development as-of-right. An additional 70,000 square feet of air rights are being acquired and transferred to the site, probably to increase the amount of residential space that can be built. As the assemblage spans across different zoning district, the Department of City Planning must approve the air rights transfer.

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514 Halsey Street

Five-Story, Three-Unit Residential Building Planned at 514 Halsey Street, Bedford-Stuyvesant

10:00 am on July 7, 2016 By Reid Wilson

Princeton, N.J.-based property owner Romel Salam has filed applications for a five-story, three-unit residential building at 514 Halsey Street, in the heart of Bedford-Stuyvesant. The project will measure 5,496 square feet and its residential units should average 1,444 square feet apiece, indicative of condominiums. The first apartment will be hosted on the ground and cellar levels, followed by the second apartment on the second and third floor, and the third apartment on the top two floors. Theodore Kane’s Union Square-based Kane Architecture & Urban Design (a.k.a. KANE A|UD) is the architect of record. The 20-foot-wide, 2,000-square-foot property is currently vacant. The site is located six blocks from the Utica Avenue stop on the A/C trains.

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119-123 Kent Avenue, rendering by Input Creative Studio

Revealed: 119-123 Kent Avenue, Williamsburg Expansion

8:00 am on July 7, 2016 By Rebecca Baird-Remba

Most development on the Northside of Williamsburg consists of glassy new buildings, but every once in a while, someone converts a pre-war structure instead of tearing it down. Today, YIMBY has a look at 119-123 Kent Avenue, where three century-old townhouses will expand and get a new, brick facade that stretches across all of them.

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