Over the past few years, the public outcry over the perceived loss of New York City’s small and funky retail establishments has reached a fever pitch. Pseudonymous blogger Jeremiah Moss has chronicled it in his ongoing jeremiad, and even conservative commentator Nicole Gelinas bemoans the perceived bankification of her neighborhood, Midtown West.
On Tuesday, hundreds of buildings became protected when the Landmarks Preservation Commission designated the Riverside-West End Historic District Extension II. Basically, every building between West 94th Street and West 108th Street between Riverside Drive and West End Avenue has been added. That’s 344 new buildings, bringing the combined number of protected buildings to 1,255.
10 Montieth Street [The Real Deal]: Filed this past January, ODA Architecture has released renderings of Rabsky Group’s seven-story, 392-unit mixed-use building planned for the vacant lot 10 Montieth Street, in northern Bushwick. The “building will feature a landscaped…
The construction netting has finally come off 35 Cooper Square, and the Marymount Manhattan College dorm building has finally been revealed to the world. Located on the western edge of the East Village near NoHo…
510 Coney Island Avenue [Kensington BK]: A 2.5-story structure has been demolished to make-way for a five-story, 757-seat grade school located at 510 Coney Island Avenue, in northern Kensington. Construction is scheduled “to begin this Spring,” and completion…