411 Ninth Avenue

Revealed: 411 Ninth Avenue, aka Skylight House, Midtown West

8:00 am on July 2, 2015 By Nikolai Fedak

UPDATE: while permits would seem to indicate condominium’s given the developer’s LLC, a rep for HTO has corrected YIMBY, and 411 Ninth Avenue will actually have rentals.

A sliver lot on the northwest corner of Ninth Avenue and 33rd Street has remained vacant for quite some time, but YIMBY now has the reveal for the building that will soon rise at 411 Ninth Avenue. HTO Architect is designing the project, which has been dubbed Skylight House.

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90 Sands Street

30-Story Building At 90 Sands Street To Be Converted Into 600-Key Public Hotel, Dumbo

6:30 am on July 2, 2015 By Reid Wilson

Kushner Companies and RFR Realty are teaming up with Ian Schrager to develop a Public Hotel at the six-building Dumbo Heights redevelopment, in Dumbo, according to the New York Post. At 90 Sands Street, the 30-story, 508-room Jehovah’s Witness residential hotel could to be transformed into a nearly 600-key hotel, with up to 100,000 square feet of amenity and meeting space.

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639 West 59th Street

34-Story, 244-Unit Residential Building Filed At 639 West 59th Street, Riverside Center

6:00 am on July 2, 2015 By Reid Wilson

Extell Development and Carlyle Group have filed applications for another Riverside Center building, this time at 639 West 59th Street, in Lincoln Square. The building will stand 34 stories or 391 feet in height, and will have 244 residential units. Retail space will span 1,845 square feet on the ground floor within the larger 330,152 square-foot building, and amenity space will be located on the ground floor and cellar. Goldstein Hill & West Architects is the architect of record.

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