719 6th Avenue. Via Google Maps.

Permits Filed For 12-Unit Residential Building At 719 6th Avenue, South Slope

William Caleo, on behalf of National Brokerage, has filed plans to construct a five-story, 50-foot, 12-unit residential building at 719 6th Avenue in Brooklyn’s South Slope neighborhood. That’s between 21st and 22nd Streets. The units would be spread across 15,302 square feet, meaning an average size of about 1,275 square feet. There would be one unit on the first floor, three units each on the second through fourth floors, and two units on the fifth floor.

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27-35 Jackson Avenue, rendering via RKF

Revealed: 27-35 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City Retail

Long Island City is bursting with new residential towers, but it has few large commercial spaces that could accommodate grocery stores, drug stores, or gyms. Today, YIMBY has a look at the planned renovation for a commercial building at 27-35 Jackson Avenue, which could help fill that retail hole and attract a valuable tenant.

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The former Loew's 175th Street Theater, now United Palace. LPC photo.

Landmarks Considers Designating Former Loew’s 175th Street Theater

If you’ve been reading YIMBY regularly for the past month or so, you’ve read about the Landmarks Preservation Commission’s backlog of 95 items calendared prior to 2010. Rounding out our coverage of their first step in clearing that backlog is a property in Washington Heights, near the George Washington Bridge in Upper Manhattan. The property in question: the former Loew’s 175th Street Theater at 4140 Broadway.

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Permits Filed For Eight-Story Mixed-Use Building At 2171 Frederick Douglass Boulevard, Harlem

B Plus Realty has filed permits to construct a new apartment building on a vacant lot at 2171 Frederick Douglass Boulevard in Harlem. That’s between 117th and 118th Streets. The eight-story, 85-foot-tall building would have 13,832 square feet. Residential square footage would be 12,556 square feet for 14 units, meaning they would average about 897 square feet. There would be two apartments each on floors two through eight. The cellar would contain laundry, plus parking for seven bicycles. The first floor would contain 1,276 square feet of retail. Architect Raul Cabato is the applicant of record.