Permits have been filed for a four-story mixed-use building at 3401 Farragut Road also addressed as 799 East 34th Street in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. Located at the corner of Farragut Road and East 34th Street, the lot is near the Flatbush Avenue subway station, serviced by the 2 and 5 trains. Shulem Schik is listed as the owner behind the applications.
Permits have been filed for a six-story mixed-use building at 824 60th Street in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Located between 8th Avenue and 9th Avenue, the lot is two blocks from the 8th Avenue subway station, serviced by the N trains. Simon Lee under the Lee Continuum Management LLC is listed as the owner behind the applications.
Work on the Jewish Theological Seminary‘s expansion is nearing completion in Morningside Heights. The brick exterior of the seven-story superstructure is finished, while the interiors are likely in the final stages as well. Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects is the designer of the new facility, which will debut in an opening ceremony on March 22, 2020. MNLA is the landscape architect.
Exterior work is nearing completion at 180 East 88th Street, the tallest structure on the Upper East Side above 72nd Street. DDG is the designer and principal developer of the 31-story residential skyscraper, for which HTO Architects is serving as the architect of record and Global Holdings Management is also developing. Petersen Tegl, a Denmark-based firm, is in charge of putting together the thin Kolumba masonry bricks in the gray-colored façade.
Exterior work is wrapping up on the Moise Safra Cultural Center, a 14-story mixed-use structure at 130 East 82nd Street on the Upper East Side. Designed by PBDW Architects, the building is named after the late Jewish philanthropist Moise Safra and will largely cater to Orthodox Jews of Syrian ancestry.
