As YIMBY’s readers must realize by now, 2014 was a banner year for filings in New York City. While supply still clearly falls short of demand, and prices remain at astronomical levels, permit activity at the Department…
NOTE: DOB Digest will resume once new application submissions are processed with the Department of Buildings. New Jersey City Skyline Rendering [Twitter]: Jersey City’s Mayor Steven Fulop has posted renderings in advance of an event…
More than a decade ago, in June 2004, Mayor Bloomberg’s office put out a press release announcing the creation of a task force to redevelop the old “Brig” site, once home to the Brooklyn Navy…
Starting around the mid-2000s, permit approvals for the construction of two- through four-family homes fell off a cliff. Whether it was the Bloomberg rezonings, the weak market, or the end of certain tax subsidies, the most…
Union Avenue, which bisects Williamsburg through its center, has proven to be a recent hotbed for innovative market-rate residential developments of low- to mid-density. Along the corridor, Michael Schlegel’s 305 Union Avenue was recently revealed, and plans were recently filed for both 460…
