New York’s Financial District has seen a tremendous residential boom over the past few decades – its nighttime population doubled from 2000 to 2010 to 40,000 – as developers convert obsolete office towers in a declining business district…
Lot by lot, northwestern Crown Heights – or at least, the parts that are zoned for housing – is slowly being filled in, as the neighborhood continues its rapid transformation from marginal area on brownstone Brooklyn’s gentrifying fringe,…
During the 1930s and ’40s, Rego Park and other central Queens neighborhoods were the site of frenzied speculative residential construction, as private, market-rate builders sought to meet some of the massive demand for new apartments in…
152 Elizabeth Street [Bowery Boogie]: Developer Sumaida + Khurana has begun converting the existing four-story structure into the Tadao Ando-designed seven-story, eight-unit condo building of 32,000 square feet at 152 Elizabeth Street, in Little Italy. Completion “remains pegged…
This morning, a permit application was filed to construct seven six-story residential buildings in northern Bed-Stuy, with large units, apparently targeted towards the Hasidic community. The buildings would contain a total of 228 apartments spread over 293,000 square feet…
