277 Throop Avenue

Five-Story, Eight-Unit Residential Building Filed At 277 Throop Avenue, Bedford-Stuyvesant

3:00 pm on March 7, 2016 By Reid Wilson

Ronen Ben-Josef, doing business as a Midtown-based anonymous LLC, has filed applications for a five-story, eight-unit residential building at 277 Throop Avenue, in northern Bedford-Stuyvesant, located five blocks from the Myrtle Avenue stop on the J, M, and Z trains. The new building will encompass 7,492 square feet, which means its residential units will average a relatively spacious 937 square feet apiece. The units appear to be family-sized rentals, and amenities include tenant storage in the cellar. There will be two apartments per floor on the first three floors and then two duplexes spread across the fourth and fifth floors. Westchester-based Peter Klein Associates is the applicant of record. Demolition permits were filed back in October to raze the site’s dilapidating two-story townhouse.

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669 MacDonough Street

Four-Story, Seven-Unit Residential Project Planned At 669 MacDonough Street, Ocean Hill

2:00 pm on March 7, 2016 By Reid Wilson

Yair Siton , doing business as an anonymous Brooklyn-based LLC, has filed applications for a four-story, seven-unit residential building at 669 MacDonough Street, in Ocean Hill, located two blocks from the Halsey Street stop on the J train. The new building will measure 5,000 square feet, and there will be two units per floor on the ground through third floors. The structure will be topped by a single unit on the fourth floor featuring a fifth-floor penthouse. Woody Chen’s Elmhurst-based Infocus Design & Planning is the architect of record. The 25-foot-wide lot is currently vacant.

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431 Warwick Street

Two Three-Story, Two-Unit Residential Buildings Coming To 431 Warwick Street, East New York

1:11 pm on March 7, 2016 By Reid Wilson

Queens Village-based Melody Development, headed by David Manesh, has filed applications for two three-story, two-unit residential buildings at 431-433 Warwick Street, in central East New York, located six blocks east of the Van Siclen Avenue stop on the C train. Both buildings will measure a total 4,200 square feet each, which means the apartments will be rather spacious. According to the Schedule A, both new properties will feature a duplex unit across the ground and second floors, and a single unit on the third floor. Long Island-based Shahriar Afshari is the applicant of record. The 40-foot-wide site is currently vacant and is located just south of the area’s rezoning, which the City Planning Commission approved last month.

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10-44 44th Drive

Construction Finishes On Eight-Story, 105-Unit Residential Project At 10-44 44th Drive, Long Island City

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

Back in July of 2015, the façade was being installed on Ekstein Development’s eight-story, 105-unit residential building at 10-44 44th Drive (a.k.a. 44-80 11th Street), in the Hunters Point section of Long Island City. The Court Square Blog now reports all the windows have been installed and exterior construction has been finished. The project encompasses 103,268 square feet and its rental apartments should average 757 square feet apiece. Twenty-five of the apartments – a mix of studio, one-, and two-bedrooms – will rent at below market-rates. Amenities include 36 car parking spaces on the ground floor, bike storage, laundry, a gym, residential storage space, and an open-air recreational space on the second floor. GF55 Partners designed the building. Occupancy can be expected within the next few months.

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1291-1297 Third Avenue

Possible Development Site Up For Sale At 1291-1297 Third Avenue, Upper East Side

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

Premier Equities is placing on the market an assemblage of five tenement buildings along Third Avenue, between East 74th Street and 75th streets, on the Upper East Side. According to Crain’s, the five-story tenements at 1291-1297 Third Avenue (the corner property also uses the address 201 East 74th Street) and another undisclosed four-story building on 75th Street are being advertised to developers. There’s roughly 115,000 square feet of development potential at the site, although a developer would most likely demolish two of the tenement buildings for a 95,000 square-foot residential tower, according to Meridian Investment Sales, the brokerage firm tasked to sell the properties. The assemblage doesn’t come with an asking price.

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