167 Chrystie Street Approaches Completion on Manhattan’s Lower East Side

7:30 am on July 13, 2021 By Michael Young

Exterior work is nearing completion on 167 Chrystie Street, a 16-story residential building on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Designed by ODA Architects, the 77,000-square-foot, 170-foot-tall structure will yield 78 units, averaging 680 square feet apiece, as well as 4,600 square feet of ground-floor retail space. Permits were filed by the Arava Group in August 2018 and Be-Aviv and Nexus Building Development Group, Inc. are developing the project, which is located between Rivington Street to the north and Delancey Street to the south. Sara D. Roosevelt Park lies across Chrystie Street to the east.

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Housing Lottery Launches for 420 Gates Avenue in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn

6:30 am on July 13, 2021 By Vanessa Londono

The affordable housing lottery has launched for 420 Gates Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Designed by Z Architecture and developed by Tower Real Estate Investments, the six-story mixed-use building yields 44 residential units. Available on NYC Housing Connect are 14 units for residents at 130 percent of the area median income (AMI), ranging in eligible income from $68,229 to $167,570.

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SOM’s Two Manhattan West Reaches Halfway Mark in Midtown West, Manhattan

8:00 am on July 12, 2021 By Michael Young

The steel superstructure has reached the halfway mark on Two Manhattan West, a 935-foot-tall office skyscraper in Midtown West. Designed by Skidmore Owings & Merrill and developed by Brookfield, the 58-story building is rising at the corner of West 31st Street and Ninth Avenue, directly to the south of its 996-foot-tall fraternal twin, One Manhattan West. Two Manhattan West will yield a total of two million square feet and its construction is expected to cost around $2 billion.

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540 Waverly Avenue Tops Out in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn

7:30 am on July 12, 2021 By Michael Young

Construction has topped out on 540 Waverly Avenue, a nine-story mixed-use building in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. Designed by Kutnicki Bernstein Architects and developed by The Daten Group, the 117,000-square-foot structure will yield 135 rental apartments spread across 91,000 square feet, including 40 units reserved for affordable housing, as well 6,000 square feet of ground-floor retail and a 56-vehicle parking garage. The property is located at the corner of Atlantic and Waverly Avenues.

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