Kentile Floors Sign

Prohibitive Zoning: No Room for New Signs

On Thursday it was announced that the Kentile Floors sign, which had been threatened with demolition after towering above the warehouses and factories of Brooklyn’s Gowanus neighborhood for sixty years, would be saved from destruction….

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145 West 118th Street

YIMBY Today

145 West 118th Street [Harlem+Bespoke]: Developers are planning on razing a vacant five-story walk-up at 145 West 118th Street to make way for a six-story and seven-unit building; according to permits, demolition is imminent. Jamaica to Boom with Rezoning [The Wall Street…

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501 East 74th Street

Revealed: 501 East 74th Street

The first renderings are up for a new residential tower at 501 East 74th Street, on the corner of York Avenue; the site’s developer is Benjamin Ohebshalom of Sky Management, and the architect of record is…

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