Permits have been filed for an 11-story mixed-use building at 331 Avenue U in Gravesend, Brooklyn. Located between McDonald Avenue and West Street, the lot is near the Avenue U subway station, serviced by the N train. Aviran Nachum of M.N.C. General Contractor Corp. is listed as the owner behind the applications.
Construction on the public plaza and ground-floor retail space is nearly finished at One High Line, a two-tower residential development at 500 West 18th Street in Chelsea, Manhattan. Designed by Bjarke Ingels Group and developed by Witkoff Group and Access Industries, the twisting pair of 36- and 26-story structures collectively yield around 900,000 square feet with 236 condominium units in one- to five-bedroom layouts, as well as a hotel component operated by Faena Hotel, and ground-floor retail space. The property is alternately addressed as 76 Eleventh Avenue and stands adjacent to the High Line on a trapezoidal plot bound by West 18th Street to the north, West 17th Street to the south, Tenth Avenue to the east, and West Street to the west. Suffolk Construction is the general contractor and the plaza was designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, and Field Operations in a private-public partnership between the City of New York and Friends of the High Line.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York Governor Kathy Hochul recently announced plans to bring a + POOL, a filtered floating pool, to a section of the East River near Manhattan’s Lower East Side. The pool, which will be located off of Pier 35’s dock, is part of a broader effort to expand swimming access across the city.
The affordable housing lottery has launched for The Arabella, a nine-story residential building at 4720 3rd Avenue in Belmont, The Bronx. Designed by Ismael Leyva Architects and developed by Vertical Community Development and Sioni Group, the structure yields 165 residences as well as a 60,500-square-foot retail portion designed by Marin Architects. Available on NYC Housing Connect are 60 units for residents at 80 to 130 percent of the area median income (AMI), ranging in eligible income from $80,572 to $250,380.
Permits have been filed for a seven-story mixed-use building at 25-86 31st Street in Astoria, Queens. Located between Newtown Avenue and Astoria Boulevard, the lot is near the 30th Avenue subway station, serviced by the N and W trains. Zhou Xu of Astoria 1 Plaza LLC is listed as the owner behind the applications.
