100 16th Street

Four-Story, Four-Unit Residential Building Planned At 100 16th Street, South Slope

1:00 pm on April 4, 2016 By Reid Wilson

Property owner Jack Cheng, doing business as an anonymous Brooklyn-based LLC, has filed applications for a four-story, four-unit residential building at 100 16th Street, in South Slope, located a block north of the Prospect Avenue stop on the R train. The structure will measure a total of 6,538 square feet and its residential units should average a spacious 1,280 square feet apiece, indicative of condominiums. There will be one unit per floor, although the fourth-floor unit will feature additional space in a penthouse level. Shi Ming Tam’s Borough Park-based firm is the architect of record. The 20-foot-wide, 2,562-square-foot lot is currently occupied by a two-story townhouse. Permits to demolish it have not yet been filed.

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44-26 Purves Street

33-Story, 270-Unit Residential Project Rises To 16th Floor At 44-26 Purves Street, Long Island City

11:00 am on April 4, 2016 By Reid Wilson

It was in April of 2015 that YIMBY revealed renderings of the 33-story, 270-unit residential building planned at 44-26 Purves Street, in the Court Square section of Long Island City. Last November, construction of the structure was two stories above street level, and now the building is 16 stories up, as seen in photos by Tectonic. Once complete, the new building will encompass 247,934 square feet and its residential units should average 766 square feet apiece. The rental apartments will come in studio, one-, and two-bedroom configurations. A two-story podium will include much of the building’s 26,300 square feet of amenities as well as 2,600 square feet of retail space. The Gotham Organization and Brause Realty are the developers, with FXFOWLE Architects behind the design. Completion can be expected in 2017.

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34-30 Steinway Street

Reveal For Three-Story, 120,000-Square-Foot Retail Complex At 34-30 Steinway Street, Astoria

10:00 am on April 4, 2016 By Reid Wilson

An anonymous Financial District-based LLC has plans to redevelop an assemblage of single-story commercial buildings – located at 34-30 – 34-46 Steinway Street and 34-35 38th Street, in southern Astoria – into a three-story, 120,000-square-foot retail complex. Winick Realty Group is leasing the commercial space from the developer and is currently in negotiations with multiple potential tenants, including food markets, restaurants, and big-box stores,DNAinfo reported. The building will feature four levels of retail space and an underground parking garage. In November, the developer submitted pre-filings for a five-story, 29-unit mixed-use building that would have including retail, community facility space, and residential units. Those plans appear to have been replaced with the latest retail project, although filings have yet to be amended to resemble the current design. Completion of the redevelopment is expected in 2018.

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346 Broadway: rendering by Beyer Blinder Belle, photograph by the author

Mixed Rulings for Conversion of 346 Broadway, TriBeCa

8:00 am on April 4, 2016 By Evan Bindelglass

It was back in December of 2014 that the Landmarks Preservation Commission approved (on its second attempt) the residential conversion of the former New York Life Insurance Company Building, later a city office building, at 346 Broadway, in TriBeCa. However, in just the past two weeks, two rulings have come down that will impact the plan from developers Peebles Corporation and Elad Group, being marketed using the alternate address 108 Leonard Street.

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