Permits have been filed for a six-story residential building at 299 East 103rd Street in East Harlem, Manhattan. Located at the northeast intersection of Second Avenue and East 103rd Street, the lot is also addressed as 2000 Second Avenue. The 103rd Street subway station is within walking distance, served by the 6 train. Aviv Ben Avi of AB+R Construction Corporation is listed as the owner behind the applications.
Work is moving along on the first phase of the redevelopment of the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Midtown, Manhattan. Designed by Lord Norman Foster of Foster + Partners and Epstein (A. Epstein and Sons International) as a joint venture for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ), the $10 billion project will replace the 74-year-old, 2.1-million-square-foot structure with a modern, higher capacity terminal to better serve its hundreds of thousands of daily commuters. The property spans two city blocks between Eighth and Ninth Avenues and West 40th and 42nd Streets.
Construction is finished on the Staten Island Districts 1 and 3 Garage, a two-story municipal facility at 1000 West Service Road in Fresh Kills, Staten Island. Designed by TEN Arquitectos and Andrea Steele Architecture and delivered by the New York City Department of Design and Construction for the Department of Sanitation, the structure spans 140,000 square feet and consolidates operations for two of the borough’s three sanitation districts. Completion clears the way for a former garage site at 539 Jersey Street to be redeveloped into 232 affordable homes, public open space, and a grocery store, removing heavy sanitation truck traffic from the residential blocks of New Brighton.
The affordable housing lottery has launched for Blondell Commons, a seven-story residential building at 1340 Blondell Avenue in Westchester Square, The Bronx. Designed by Aufgang Architects and developed by Exact Capital Group under the Blondell Equities LLC, the structure yields 182 residences. Available on NYC Housing Connect are 126 units for residents at 30 to 70 percent of the area median income (AMI), ranging in eligible income from $29,418 to $147,280.
Permits have been filed for a four-story residential building at 1552 Leland Avenue in Parkchester, The Bronx. Located between Archer Street and Guerlain Street, the lot is near the Parkchester subway station, served by the 6 train. Marash Voka of Voka Mechanical Corp. is listed as the owner behind the applications.
