Façade Installation Takes Shape on 2-20 and 2-21 Malt Drive in Hunters Point, Queens

8:00 am on December 3, 2023 By Michael Young and Matt Pruznick

At number 29 on our year-end countdown is 2-20 and 2-21 Malt Drive, a three-tower complex in the Hunters Point South master plan in Hunters Point, Queens. Designed by SLCE Architects and developed by TF Cornerstone, the development consists of a 34-story, 390-foot-tall structure with 575 units at 2-20 Malt Drive and a two-tower building at 2-21 Malt Dive with a 38-story, 440-foot-tall tower and a 25-story, 310-foot-tall sibling collectively housing 811 units. The project will span 1.43 million square feet and yield nearly 1,400 total units, with 30 percent designated for affordable housing, as well as around 25,000 square feet of retail space. Scape is the landscape architect and Bud North LLC and Bud South LLC are the general contractors for 2-21 and 2-20 Malt Drive, respectively, which will rise from a subdivided plot bound by 54th Avenue to the north, Newton Creek to the south, and 2nd Street to the west.

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323 Bergen Street Nears Topping Out in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn

7:30 am on December 3, 2023 By Michael Young and Matt Pruznick

Construction is nearing topping out on 323 Bergen Street, a seven-story residential building in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. Designed by GF55 Partners and developed and built by Avdoo Partners & Development under the Bergen Owner LLC, the 75-foot-tall structure will span 243,000 square feet and yield 105 condominium units with an average scope of 1,307 square feet, and 50 percent of the inventory will be reserved for affordable housing. The property stands on a large multi-parcel assemblage stretching 400 feet along Bergen Street between 3rd and 4th Avenues, with a narrower 45-foot frontage along Dean Street.

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Render of the exterior of 1334 York Avenue, courtesy of Edelman

Weill Cornell Announces New Research Center at 1334 York Avenue on Manhattan’s Upper East Side

7:00 am on December 3, 2023 By Max Gillespie

Weill Cornell Medicine has announced plans to expand its Upper East Side campus with the acquisition of five floors at 1334 York Avenue. The new space, which is currently occupied by Sotheby’s auction house, is located one block from Weill Cornell’s primary campus and will add some 200,000 square feet of research space, the institution’s largest expansion since the inauguration of the Belfer Research Building in 2014.

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111 Willoughby Street Rises in Downtown Brooklyn

8:00 am on December 2, 2023 By Michael Young and Matt Pruznick

The 30th-tallest building on our year-end construction countdown is 111 Willoughby Street, a 40-story residential tower that has begun to rise in Downtown Brooklyn. Designed byGF55 Architects and developed by The Michaels Organization, Triangle Equities, and Geolo Capital, the 437-foot-tall structure will span 205,000 square feet and yield 227 rental units, a 20,000-square-foot ministry center for the St. Boniface parish, and 1,814 square feet of commercial space. ZDG, LLC is the general contractor for the property, which is located by the intersection of Willoughby Street to the south and Duffield Street to the east.

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