Rockabill Development and GoddardRiverside have partnered to transform an illegal Upper West Side hotel into a permanent supportive housing property and closed on $38 million to complete the project. Located at 235 West 107th Street, the building was zoned for residential use, but operated as The Morningside Inn, an illegal short-stay property.
The affordable housing lottery has launched for 963 Atlantic Avenue, a nine-story mixed-use property in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. Designed by Kutnicki Bernstein Architects and developed by Efraim Weber as 86 Lefferts Corp, the structure yields 124 rental units, an amenity package, and two ground-floor retail spaces. Available on NYC Housing Connect are 38 units for residents at 80 to 130 percent of the area median income (AMI), ranging in eligible income from $58,115 to $187,330.
Permits have been filed to expand a two-story structure into a nine-story mixed-use building at 5722 7th Avenue in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Located between 57th Street and 58th Street, the interior lot is near the 8th Avenue subway station, serviced by the N train. Wei Wang of Dyker and Brooklyn NY Inc. is listed as the owner behind the applications.
Earlier this week, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) filed plans to construct the MSK Pavilion, a new 31-story inpatient hospital building at 1233 York Avenue in the Lenox Hill section of Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Designed in collaboration by CannonDesign and Foster + Partners, the structure could rise up to 594 feet tall and yield 900,000 square feet for inpatient clinical care (cancer care and surgery). The MSK Pavilion will replace an old building housing medical student residences and administrative offices on a plot bound by East 67th Street to the north, East 66th Street to the south, and York Avenue and Rockefeller University to the east.
The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) has awarded LendLease a $4 million grant to complete 1 Java Street, a high-rise residential complex in Greenpoint, Brooklyn that will debut as the largest residential project in New York State to use a geothermal heat exchange system.
