Affordable housing

Developer Files For 10-Story, 232-Unit Affordable Mixed-Use Project At 133-55 41st Avenue, Flushing

6:00 am on March 8, 2016 By Reid Wilson

Back in April 0f 2015, the Department of City Planning selected Brooklyn-based Monadnock Development to build an all-affordable residential building with commercial space at the parking lot at 133-45 – 133-55 41st Avenue, in Downtown Flushing. Now the developer has filed applications for the project, which will rise 10 stories and contain 232 residential units. The new building, dubbed One Flushing, will encompass 286,193 square feet, and ground-floor commercial-retail and community facility space will total 28,864 and 13,872 square feet, respectively. Apartments will begin on the second floor and should average 792 square feet apiece.

Construction Finishes On Eight-Story, 105-Unit Residential Project At 10-44 44th Drive, Long Island City

11:00 am on March 7, 2016 By Reid Wilson

Back in July of 2015, the façade was being installed on Ekstein Development’s eight-story, 105-unit residential building at 10-44 44th Drive (a.k.a. 44-80 11th Street), in the Hunters Point section of Long Island City. The Court Square Blog now reports all the windows have been installed and exterior construction has been finished. The project encompasses 103,268 square feet and its rental apartments should average 757 square feet apiece. Twenty-five of the apartments – a mix of studio, one-, and two-bedrooms – will rent at below market-rates. Amenities include 36 car parking spaces on the ground floor, bike storage, laundry, a gym, residential storage space, and an open-air recreational space on the second floor. GF55 Partners designed the building. Occupancy can be expected within the next few months.

Long Island City’s 43-25 Hunter Street Rises Two-Thirds Of The Way To Its Final Height

4:30 pm on March 4, 2016 By Vitali Ogorodnikov

As warm weather ushers the beginning of March, Rockrose Development’s 43-25 Hunter Street in Long Island City stands over 35-stories-tall. At 509 feet, the tower will become the fourth tallest in Queens upon its completion in 2017, when its 974 units will make it one of the city’s largest residential buildings.

Phases 1 and 2 of the Prospect Plaza affordable housing development take shape in Ocean Hill, Brooklyn.

Second Phase of Prospect Plaza Affordable Housing Inches Toward the Finish Line in Ocean Hill

7:30 am on March 2, 2016 By Rebecca Baird-Remba

As the New York City Housing Authority struggles to develop its underutilized properties across the five boroughs, YIMBY revisited Prospect Plaza in Ocean Hill, Brooklyn, where the city tore down an entire public housing project two years ago. Now, construction is wrapping up on the second phase of affordable rental buildings that replaced the 12- and 15-story towers.

Shopping Complex Plans Nixed At 90-02 168th Street, Downtown Jamaica

6:00 am on March 2, 2016 By Reid Wilson

Back in 2013, the Greater Jamaica Development Corporation (GJDC) and Blumenfeld Development Group signed an agreement to build a 160,000-square-foot retail complex accompanied by a 550-space parking garage across two vacant lots in downtown Jamaica, specifically at 90-01 168th Street and 90-02 168th Street. Then early last year, the developers said they would build an additional 105,000 square feet of retail space and an affordable residential building. DNAinfo now reports the 2013 deal has terminated, effectively halting any plans for the sites. At this point, the GJDC plans to release a new and updated Request for Proposals (RFP), that will more than likely include affordable housing, for both properties later this spring. Both lots are currently being used for surface parking.

443 East 162nd Street, image via Google Maps

City Files Plans for 12-Story Affordable Project at Melrose Commons in the Bronx

7:30 am on March 1, 2016 By Rebecca Baird-Remba

Another vacant, city-owned lot in the South Bronx is about to sprout affordable housing. The city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development filed plans to build a 12-story rental building at 443 East 162nd Street in Melrose, where activists have spent decades fighting for city services and housing that locals could afford.

brooklyn bridge park pier 6 night rendering

State Puts Approval On Hold For 29-, 14-Story Pier 6 Residential Towers, Brooklyn Heights

6:30 am on March 1, 2016 By Reid Wilson

In June of 2015, YIMBY revealed renderings of the winning proposal that would bring two mixed-use towers to Pier 6 in Brooklyn Bridge Park, located in southern Brooklyn Heights. The project consists of a 29-story, 192-unit market-rate condominium building with 3,870 square feet of retail and a shorter, 14-story counterpart with 117 affordable and 30 market-rate rental apartments, a preschool, 930 square feet of retail, and a 1,500 square-foot community facility. Curbed NY now reports the project is on hold following relentless community opposition. The Empire State Development Corporation is not approving the project until the city can come to an agreement with the community on it. The city selected RAL Development and Oliver Realty to develop the two vacant sites, with ODA New York as the design architect. Construction was scheduled to begin this spring.

Nonprofit Proposes 280 Affordable Units, Homeless Shelter At 149 West 108th Street, Upper West Side

6:30 am on February 26, 2016 By Reid Wilson

The West Side Federation for Senior and Supportive Housing is proposing to demolish three city-owned parking garages at 151 West 108th, 143 West 108th, and 103 West 108th Street, and the five-story Valley Lodge 92-bed homeless shelter at 149 West 108th Street, on the Upper West Side. According to DNAinfo, the nonprofit is planning to build a new facility with a 110-bed homeless shelter and at least 280 residential units in two separate buildings. All of the apartments would be rented at below market-rates to a mix of seniors, singles, and families. The plans will be taken through the city’s Urban Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP) so larger buildings can be built, possibly generating an additional 90 residential units in the process. The nonprofit will also build a public bathroom at the adjacent Anibal Aviles Playground. Construction is expected to begin in 2017 and be completed in 2019.

Map of the proposed East New York rezoning via Department of City Planning

City Planning Commission Greenlights East New York Rezoning

8:00 am on February 25, 2016 By Rebecca Baird-Remba

The City Planning Commission voted to approve the East New York rezoning yesterday, pushing forward with a controversial plan to revitalize 190 blocks in the Brooklyn neighborhood that’s suffered from disinvestment and abandonment for decades.

121 East 144th Street, image via Google Maps

Treetop Plans a Residential Tower at 121-129 East 144th Street in Mott Haven

7:30 am on February 23, 2016 By Rebecca Baird-Remba

Most developers building market-rate apartments in the South Bronx have set their sights on Port Morris, a relatively narrow industrial strip that wraps around the southern tip of the borough. But Treetop Development just paid $6 million for a site several blocks north, at 121-129 East 144th Street in Mott Haven.

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