The Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) has approved proposals to complete ground-floor renovations and lighting enhancements on 32 Avenue of the Americas, a 27-story Art Deco office tower in Tribeca. Completed in 1932 by Ralph Thomas Walker of Voorhees, Gmelin and Walker, the building features a landmarked façade and lobby with extensive mosaic murals by Hildreth Meière.
Permits have been filed for two four-story residential buildings at 2838-2840 Webb Avenue in Kingsbridge, The Bronx. Located between West 197th Street and Reservoir Avenue, the lots are near the Kingsbridge Road subway station, serviced by the 4 train. Eric Delafraz under the Webb Avenue 1 LLC is listed as the owner behind both applications.
Exterior work is wrapping up on the Moxy Lower East Side, an 18-story hotel tower at 145 Bowery on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Designed by Stonehill Taylor and developed by Lightstone Group, the 127,000-square-foot structure will yield 303 guest rooms, a Japanese restaurant, two bars, a subterranean nightclub, and an outdoor rooftop lounge. Leeding Builders Group is the general contractor for the property, which is located at the corner of Bowery and Broome Street.
Façade work is finishing up on the NYU Langone Ambulatory Care Clinic, a five-story medical facility at 70 Atlantic Avenue in the River Park master plan in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. Designed by Perkins Eastman and developed in house by NY Langone Health, the 89-foot-tall structure spans 160,000 square feet. The site was formerly occupied by the 12-story The Long Island College Hospital, which was purchased by Fortis for $10.1 million in 2014 and subsequently demolished. Skanska USA Building is the general contractor for the property, which is alternately addressed as 339 Hicks Street and located at the corner of Atlantic Avenue and Hicks Street.
The Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) has approved proposals to elevate and expand a three-story townhouse at 6 West 95th Street in the Central Park West Historic District of Manhattan’s Upper West Side. The project requires a certificate of appropriateness from the LPC before any work can begin.
