Permits have been filed for a seven-story mixed-use building at 850 Lexington Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Located between Ralph Avenue and Patchen Avenue, the lot is one block north of the Freeman Street subway station, serviced by the 2 and 5 trains. Solomon Equities is listed as the owner behind the applications.
Work is nearly complete on Anish Kapoor’s reflective “bean” sculpture at the base of 56 Leonard Street, an 831-foot-tall residential skyscraper in Tribeca. The work sits directly outside the main lobby of the tower, which was designed by Herzog & de Meuron and Hill West Architects and opened in 2017.
The Museum of Chinese in America has released the first batch of renderings for its permanent new home in Lower Manhattan. Located at 215 Centre Street in Chinatown, the headquarters will expand the existing building where the museum was reportedly paying $600,000 each year in rent.
The affordable housing lottery has launched for Silver Point Apartments, a six-story mixed-use building at 43-20 52nd Street in Woodside, Queens. Designed by Angelo Ng & Anthony Ng Architect, the structure yields 14 residences, seven parking spaces, and ground-floor commercial and community facility space. Available on NYC Housing Connect are five units for residents at 130 percent of the area median income (AMI), ranging in eligible income from $85,715 to $167,570.
Permits have been filed for a seven-story residential building at 827 Sterling Place in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Located between Rogers and Nostrand Avenues, the lot is three blocks north of the Nostrand Avenue subway station, serviced by the 2, 3, and 4 trains. Jody Kriss of Kriss Capital LLC is listed as the owner behind the applications.
