Permits have been filed to expand a three-story structure into a four-story mixed-use building at 193 Graham Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Located at the intersection of Scholes Street and Graham Avenue, the lot is near the Grand Street subway station, served by the L train. Yehuda Kohn of City Framers is listed as the owner behind the applications.
Permits have been filed to convert a two-story structure into a four-story mixed-use building at 4432 3rd Avenue in Belmont, The Bronx. Located between Hoffman Street and Lorillard Place, the lot is closest to the 182-183 Streets subway station, serviced by the B and D trains. Rom Barokas is listed as the owner behind the applications.
At number seven on our year-end countdown of the tallest buildings under construction in New York is The Orchard, an 823-foot-tall residential skyscraper at 42-22 Orchard Street in Long Island City, Queens. Designed by Perkins Eastman and developed by BLDG Management Co., the 70-story structure surpassed the Skyline Tower at 23-15 44th Drive for the title of the tallest building in the borough and will yield 824 rental units in studio to three-bedroom layouts, with 248 designated as affordable housing, as well as 13,000 square feet of retail space along Jackson Avenue, 100,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor amenities, and a two-story parking garage with 207 enclosed spaces. The property is alternately addressed as 43-01 Queens Street and 27-48 Jackson Avenue and occupies a full city block along Jackson Avenue between Queens and Orchard Streets.
At number eight on our year-end countdown of the tallest buildings under construction in New York is 989 Sixth Avenue, a 785-foot-tall mixed-use skyscraper in the Garment District of Midtown, Manhattan. Designed by C3D Architecture and developed by Sioni Group under the 989 Sixth Realty LLC, the 68-story structure will span 384,118 square feet and yield 300 condominium units with an average scope of 991 square feet, as well as 86,817 square feet of commercial space and two cellar levels. The property is alternately addressed as 100 West 37th Street and located at the intersection of Sixth Avenue and West 37th Street.
Construction could soon begin on 70 Hudson Yards, a proposed 47-story office skyscraper in Hudson Yards, Manhattan. The 1.1-million-square-foot structure is being designed by Roger Ferris+ Partners and Gensler and developed by Related Companies and Oxford Properties, which are currently in discussions with potential tenants. The building is planned to become New York’s first zero-carbon emission skyscraper and will rise from an assemblage of two adjacent parcels bound by West 36th and 35th Streets to the north and south, The Set at 451 Tenth Avenue to the east, and Hudson Boulevard East and Bella Abzug Park to the west.