At the corner of West 140th Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard, a new affordable housing project will soon rise, called Strivers Plaza. The eight-story building at 275 West 140th Street will be built by Radson Development, and…
The Stapleton waterfront, on Staten Island’s North Shore, is positively booming with development activity – or, at least, as close to booming as the city’s sparsest borough gets. At the old Homeport site, a 35-acre decommissioned naval…
During Mayor Bloomberg’s twelve years in office, his administration rezoned nearly 40 percent of the city. While the most prominent rezonings, in Manhattan and western Brooklyn and Queens, dramatically increased allowed densities, in the outer…
In the late 1930s, developers started bouncing back from the Great Depression, and began building again in the Bronx. They filled in lots on the Grand Concourse with garden apartments in the Art Deco style, giving the borough some…
Earlier today, architecture firm Perkins Eastman filed an application for a new building permit, for a large affordable housing project in Hell’s Kitchen. The 13-story building will reach 135 feet, and will include 125,000 square feet of…
