1693 Flatbush Avenue

Three-Story Mixed-Use Commercial Project Planned At 1693 Flatbush Avenue, Flatlands

1:00 pm on November 18, 2015 By Reid Wilson

Property owner Avraham Tarshish has filed applications for a three-story, 8,600 square-foot mixed-use commercial building at 1693 Flatbush Avenue, in Flatlands, six blocks from the 2 and 5 trains’ stop at Flatbush Avenue/Brooklyn College. The project will have 4,131 square feet of retail space on the ground and second floors, in addition to a 4,469 square-foot health care facility on the second and third floors. Richard Walsh’s Brooklyn-based Citiscape Consulting is the applicant of record.

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Livonia Commons

Permits Filed: Phase 2 of Livonia Commons Affordable Housing, East New York

12:15 pm on November 18, 2015 By Rebecca Baird-Remba

New building applications have been filed for nearly 300 units of affordable housing on city-owned lots near where the elevated 3 and L trains intersect on Livonia Avenue in East New York. It turns out that these plans are Phase II of the city’s big Livonia Commons project, which will bring 791 deeply affordable units, retail and community space to a rather desolate stretch of the neighborhood.

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39 South Elliott Place

Four-Story, Two-Unit Residential Project Filed At 39 South Elliott Place, Fort Greene

11:00 am on November 18, 2015 By Reid Wilson

Ana Eskreis, head of Max Studio, has filed applications for a four-story, two-unit residential building at 39 South Elliott Place, in Fort Greene. That’s steps away from the G train’s Fulton Street stop and the C train’s Lafayette Avenue stop. The building will measure 2,472 square feet in total. Triplex units will span the cellar through second floors and a duplex will take up the upper two floors. The project is being designed in-house.

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30-49 38th Street

Five-Story, Seven-Unit Residential Building Planned At 30-49 38th Street, Astoria

10:00 am on November 18, 2015 By Reid Wilson

Property owner George Elliott, doing business as an anonymous LLC, has filed applications for a five-story, seven-unit residential building at 30-49 38th Street, in Astoria, eight blocks east of the N and Q trains’ stop at 30th Avenue. The building will measure 4,981 square feet in total, which means units will average a rental-sized 712 square feet apiece. New Jersey-based T.F. Cusanelli & Filletti Architects is the applicant of record, and permits were filed in July to demolish an existing two-story, multi-family townhouse.

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52-09 31st Place, rendering by ARC Architecture and Design

First Look: 52-09 31st Place, Long Island City Hotel

8:00 am on November 18, 2015 By Rebecca Baird-Remba

The administration of Mayor Bill de Blasio has decided to tamp down on hotel development in industrial zones, but dozens of hotels are already on the rise in Long Island City’s manufacturing areas. YIMBY has a rendering of a 20-story hotel in the works at 52-09 31st Place, in a particularly forlorn and polluted micro-hood known as Blissville.

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