BROOKLYN: 561 President Street: “President Sai 2 LLC” has filed applications for a five-story, 113-key hotel of 39,546 square feet spanning 561-567 President Street, in Gowanus. Raymond Chan is designing, and demolition began in October on…
In June, YIMBY brought you news of a permit filing for a 28-story tower at 436 Albee Square in downtown Brooklyn, designed by increasingly prolific ODA Architecture. Now, we have obtained a rendering of the project,…
The days of the bungalows and wood-frame houses of Brighton Beach, in the blocks above the elevated line near the end of Brooklyn, are numbered. The neighborhood has the distinction of being one of only a handful of…
Last week, a permit was filed for a major alteration to 175 Richardson Street, just below the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, between Humboldt Street and Graham Avenue. The plan is to turn the 20-foot-wide, two-story commercial structure into…
There it sits, the northern portion of the deactivated Rockaway Beach Branch rail line, a 3.5 mile-long right-of-way in central and southern Queens that last saw passenger service in 1962. One MTA board member described…
