Just across the street from the Port Authority Bus Terminal sits the best example of Midtown’s ongoing architectural crisis, caused by the proliferation of budget hotels allowed by outdated zoning. The most infamous of these are…
The squat, million-square foot office block at 100 Church Street was once called the least-occupied building in New York City, but no longer. SL Green, a creditor in the ailing building, picked it up at an auction in 2009, and…
As the year comes to a close, architects are rushing to file new building permit applications before the 2014 construction codes take effect on December 31. So on Friday, applications were submitted for two new projects…
107 Norman Avenue [Brownstoner]: Brooklyn Public Library’s Greenpoint branch — located at 107 Norman Avenue — “has received a $5 [million] grant” to expand the existing single-story, 6,500 square-foot structure by two floors. Beatty Harvey Coco Architects…
MANHATTAN: 153 Sherman Avenue: TEP Charter School has filed applications for a six-story, 65,777 square-foot community education building spanning the lots of 153-157 Sherman Avenue, in Inwood. Evans Heingtes Architects is designing, and the site’s single-story predecessor…
