Construction rendering of 209 West 14th Street, photo by tipster

Revealed: 209 West 14th Street, Chelsea

The condo-fication of 14th Street continues with 209 West 14th Street, where a four-story building has just been demolished to make way for eleven stories of apartments. A YIMBY reader sent along photos of a new rendering posted on the construction fence between Seventh and Eighth Avenues last week.

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286 Wythe Avenue, photo by Christopher Bride for PropertyShark

Permits Filed: 286 Wythe Avenue, Williamsburg

One of the last under-developed plots on Williamsburg’s pricey Northside is about to grow a six-story building. Builder Moshe Braver has decided to expand a mid-century brick warehouse at 286 Wythe Avenue, on the corner of North 1st Street, into a 70-foot-tall mixed-use development.

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300 West 122nd Street

12-Story, 127-Unit Mixed-Use Project Planned At 300 West 122nd Street, Harlem

RGS Holdings has partnered with the property owner of 300 West 122nd Street, in Harlem, to develop a 12-story, 127-unit mixed-use building, according to Curbed. The site also includes the two-story building at 223 St. Nicholas Avenue, which will have to be demolished. The new building will measure roughly 161,300 square feet, and features 28,700 square feet of retail space on the ground floor. The units will be condominiums, and a slew of amenities are included. PBDW Architects is designing, and the project is expected to be complete in 2017.

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432 West 58th Street

School Conversion Planned for 14-Story Building At 432 West 58th Street, Midtown West

Carnegie Hill-based La Scuola d’Italia has purchased 432 West 58th Street from Mount Sinai Medical Systems for $55 million, according to the Daily News. The 14-story, 102,000 square-foot building will be converted into a school with 28 classrooms, a library, media center, gym, dining facility, and additional academic amenities. An entirely new façade is planned, and an atrium will be built on the inside. The school will consolidate its two Upper East Side facilities into its new Midtown West location, allowing enrollment to increase from 300 to 700 students.

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Broadway Junction on the border of East New York and Ocean Hill, the first two neighborhoods where the city's new mandatory inclusionary zoning will take effect.

The Loophole in de Blasio’s New Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning Policy

On the last day of July, the de Blasio administration quietly introduced a key piece of its plan to build 80,000 affordable units of housing: mandatory inclusionary zoning. The plan will require market-rate developers to set aside at least 25% of their units in each new building as affordable housing. As the city rezones several neighborhoods across the five boroughs, they’ll impose the policy along with the updated zoning—beginning with East New York.

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