The District 2 Pre-K and 3-K Center has opened at 403 East 65th Street on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The new standalone, city-run early childhood education facility will add more than 130 Pre-K and 3-K seats beginning this September, quadrupling 3-K capacity and doubling Pre-K capacity within the 10065 ZIP code. The project was first announced in 2022 and completed in July 2025.
Work is underway on the new two-story Canarsie Library at 1580 Rockaway Parkway in Canarsie, Brooklyn. Developed by the Brooklyn Public Library and designed in a collaboration between Studio Joseph, Envoie Projects, Mercer Mass Timber, Plus Group, TYLin, and W Architecture, the structure will span 11,000 square feet, double the size of the previous facility. The building will also be one of New York City’s first buildings constructed from mass timber. Shawmut Design and Construction is serving as the general contractor for the project, which broke ground last Saturday at the property, and is located at the corner of Rockaway Parkway and Avenue J.
The New School is seeking approval from the Landmarks Preservation Commission for a preservation project at its Educational Building at 70 Fifth Avenue, an individual landmark in Greenwich Village, Manhattan. The 12-story building was built between 1912 and 1914 and designed by Charles Alonzo Rich in the Beaux-Arts style. Bacon Lane Architects is serving as architect of record, with Acheson Doyle Partners as preservation consultant and Cribstone Engineering as structural engineer.
The environmental review process has kicked off for 240 Nassau Street, a three-building mixed-use complex along the northern border of Downtown Brooklyn. Designed and developed in a partnership between Alloy Development, the NYC Educational Construction Fund (ECF), and GFB Development, the project will give rise two skyscrapers yielding a total of 1,505 mixed-income units, including 305 affordable apartments and 95 for senior housing. The development will also include a 120,000-square-foot public school, 42,000 square feet of community and cultural space, and 28,000 square feet of retail.
Vanderbilt University has submitted a proposal to the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission for a series of improvements at 440 West 21st Street in Chelsea, Manhattan. Designed by Beyer Blinder Belle, the project seeks to make modifications to the General Theological Seminary campus, which Vanderbilt agreed to lease for $44 million in September. The site is bounded by West 20th and 21st Streets and Ninth and Tenth Avenues.
