Development in Long Island City’s Court Square area has been somewhat patchy, with dense buildings sprouting on blocks of low-slung warehouses. Crescent Street has been the exception, with the stretch just north of the Queensboro Bridge filling out,…
For about a century — since the tenement laws forbid the construction of the old railroad and dumbbell apartment buildings — for-profit, market-rate builders in New York City have largely shunned the poor. The city is still…
32 2nd Avenue [Bowery Boogie]: Anthology Film Archives are planning a five-story vertical expansion of their two-story building at 32-34 2nd Avenue, in the Bowery. The landmarked building’s height increase will be financed by a wealthy European donor, although no applications or…
Brooklyn: 20 Jefferson Street: Bleeker LLC has filed applications to construct a four-story and eight-unit residential building of 6,177 square feet at 20 Jefferson Street, in Bushwick. Emergency demolition of the lot’s two-story predecessor was ordered…
YIMBY has the reveal for the Herzog & de Meuron-designed 357 West Street, courtesy of a tipster; the building is the firm’s second Manhattan project to be unveiled in as many months, and both sites are being developed…
