While the New York City Housing Authority’s grand “Land Lease” infill plan, proposed in the waning months of the Bloomberg administration, was highly controversial, other affordable housing projects have been wedged in between the voids…
The area around the Marcy Houses, on the border of Williamsburg and Bed-Stuy, has for decades been a bit of a no-man’s-land. But with the rezoning of the Broadway Triangle for development – mainly targeted…
2nd Avenue Subway [Curbed]: With Phase 1 of the Second Avenue Subway underway — which focuses on the span between 72nd and 96th Streets, set for completion in 2016 — plans for Phase 2 are in the MTA’s 2015-2019 capital…
Manhattan: 64 East 1st Street: Surfaced by YIMBY in April, permits are up in “support of excavation” for a six-story and six-unit residential building of 13,500 square feet at 64 East 1st Street, in the East Village. An…
In much of the city, masonry fell out of favor generations ago, with buyers and renters instead preferring the clean lines and large windows of glassy modernism. But among Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jews – whether they be ultra-Orthodox…