New York’s Financial District has seen a tremendous residential boom over the past few decades – its nighttime population doubled from 2000 to 2010 to 40,000 – as developers convert obsolete office towers in a declining business district…
Lot by lot, northwestern Crown Heights – or at least, the parts that are zoned for housing – is slowly being filled in, as the neighborhood continues its rapid transformation from marginal area on brownstone Brooklyn’s gentrifying fringe,…
During the 1930s and ’40s, Rego Park and other central Queens neighborhoods were the site of frenzied speculative residential construction, as private, market-rate builders sought to meet some of the massive demand for new apartments in…
This morning, a permit application was filed to construct seven six-story residential buildings in northern Bed-Stuy, with large units, apparently targeted towards the Hasidic community. The buildings would contain a total of 228 apartments spread over 293,000 square feet…
Between landmarking and tight zoning, anti-development forces have almost completely locked down the Upper West Side, with very few new building permit applications filed in the high-demand neighborhood despite plenty of extra capacity on local trains beneath Central…
