Much of urban America, and New York City in particular, is in crisis. Cities are becoming desirable again, but planning is still stuck in the post-war mentality of decline. Rents are skyrocketing as new housing supply pales against…
Earlier today, a permit application was submitted for an unusual building in Brooklyn: five stories of commercial and community facility space, with no housing. While normally rents are not high enough in the borough to…
The area around Newtown Creek – known as East Williamsburg to some, Bushwick to others – has been progressively de-industrialized over the generations, with heavy industry giving way to less job-intensive uses like light industry,…
BRONX: 3993 White Plains Road: Applications have been filed for a single-story 4,320 square-foot commercial building at the lots 3991-3993 White Plains Road, in southern Wakefield. Howell Belanger Cestelli is designing, and the site’s two-story predecessor…
Normally when we see a filing calling for a 1,500-square foot condos in Brooklyn, it would be in Dumbo or Williamsburg, with large units catering to wealthy buyers who would otherwise look in Manhattan. But…