The affordable housing lottery has launched for 88 Tompkins Avenue, a five-story residential building in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Designed by Think Architecture & Design and developed by Jose Jorge, the structure yields 430 residences. Available on NYC Housing Connect are 17 units for residents at 80 to 130 percent of the area median income (AMI), ranging in eligible income from $72,138 to $198,250.
Permits have been filed for a six-story residential building at 2260 Andrews Avenue North in University Heights, The Bronx. Located between West Fordham Road and West 183rd Street, the lot is one block north of the Freeman Street subway station, serviced by the 2 and 5 trains. Aleks Kalaj is listed as the owner behind the applications.
Construction is rising on 126 East 57th Street, a 28-story residential building on Billionaires’ Row in Midtown East, Manhattan. Designed by ODA Architecture and developed by MRR Development under the MRR 1326 LLC, the 346-foot-tall structure will yield 147 condominium units with an average scope of 1,156 square feet, as well as 5,000 square feet of lower-level retail space. WSP USA is the engineer and Plaza Construction is the general contractor for the property, which is being constructed on an L-shaped parcel at the corner of East 56th Street and Lexington Avenue, with a narrow extension to East 57th Street.
Construction is rising on 46-06 11th Street, an eight-story mixed-use building in Long Island City, Queens. Designed by Raymond Chan Architect and developed by Jim Yang under the JNMY LLC, the 85-foot-tall structure will span 89,684 square feet and yield 44 rental units with an average scope of 780 square feet, 20,355 square feet of community facility space, 1,240 square feet of commercial space, a cellar, a 20-foot-long rear yard, and 40 enclosed parking spaces. Mandarin Enterprises II Inc. is the general contractor for the property, which is alternately addressed as 10-50 46th Avenue and located at the corner of 46th Avenue and 11th Street.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams has announced the award of nearly $30 million in federal funding for safety improvements along Queens Boulevard in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. This grant, part of the “Safe Streets and Roads for All” program, will be funded through the approximately $1 billion in federal infrastructure funding that has been secured under the Adams administration.
