Normally, when YIMBY comes across an affordable housing project in the Bronx, the architecture is unmemorable. Red brick and cheap masonry touches abound, and we can’t ever remember seeing a new building whose façade wasn’t…
The churn of new construction in Borough Park, Brooklyn’s largest ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighborhood, is constant, usually involving developers tearing down single-family detached homes and replacing them with small walk-up apartment buildings. But at 886 Dahill Road, on the…
645-651 Union Street [Brownstoner]: A rendering has gone up for a new Gowanus hotel designed to look like something built around the time of the Civil War. Matt Abramcyk is the developer of the five-story, 78-key…
As prices rise throughout brownstone Brooklyn and condo developers bid up the price of sites that normally would have gone rental, apartment builders aiming for a lower price point are pushing deeper into central Brooklyn to find land…
60 Water Street [Curbed]: Two Trees’17-story and 290-unit residential building — currently topped-out at 60 Water Street, in Dumbo — has a new set of official renderings; LESSER and Ismael Leyva are designing. The building is expected to be completed this year, with leases beginning this…