This fall, a number of reports have emerged about the possibility of decking over and developing Sunnyside Yard, the Amtrak-owned facility wedged between between the Long Island City and Sunnyside neighborhoods in western Queens. Amtrak has expressed interest…
Rockefeller University Expansion [Crain’s New York]: Rockefeller University has been donated $150 million in construction funding to build “four new buildings” over a stretch of FDR Drive between East 64th and 68th Streets, on the Upper East Side. The…
BROOKLYN: 730 Franklin Avenue: An LLC has filed applications for a six-story, 10-unit building of 10,700 square feet at the vacant lot of 730 Franklin Avenue, in Crown Heights. Commercial space will total 1,676 square feet,…
Big changes are in store for a lot fronting West 18th Street and West 17th Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues in the Flatiron District. On Tuesday, the Landmarks Preservation Commission approved the restoration of existing buildings at 40-42 West 18th Street and 45 West 17th Street, as well as plans to construct a new through-block building at 38 West 18th Street and 41-43 West 17th Street. This is the Ladies Mile Historic District, hence the LPC involvement.
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. That has to be your motto when you go before the Landmarks Preservation Commission, which Tuesday approved a new building for 20 Old Fulton Street, which…
