Residential

53-29 196th Street

Three-Story, Three-Unit Residential Building Coming To 53-29 196th Street, Auburndale

Property owner Ming Guan Guang has filed applications for a three-story, three-unit residential building at 53-29 196th Street, in southern Auburndale near the Clearview Expressway. The building will measure 4,835 square feet in total, which means units will average 1,610 square feet and probably be split into duplexes. Chang Hwa Tan’s Tan Architect is the applicant of record, and an existing 1.5-story, single-family home must first be demolished.

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370 Clermont Avenue

Four-Unit Townhouse Development Planned At 370 Clermont Avenue, Fort Greene

Douglaston Development is moving forward with a townhouse project in Fort Greene, at 370-374 Clermont Avenue and 71 Greene Avenue. Originally filed in 2013, on the Clermont side, there will be two buildings, with three condominium units. One will be a four-story, single-family home, and the other will reach three stories and hold two units, averaging 3,885 square feet.

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70 Vestry Street

Revealed: 70 Vestry Street, 13-Story Tribeca Condo Project

UPDATE: A tipster sends word that while Ismael Leyva is the architect of record, Robert A.M. Stern is the design architect.

Last September, YIMBY reported on the first permits for a new 13-story building coming to 70 Vestry Street, in Tribeca, right next to the West Side Highway. Since then, the site’s two existing structures have been torn down, and we can now reveal the first rendering for the project, which is being designed by Ismael Leyva Architects.

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1704-1712 Ocean Avenue, image via Google Maps

Permits Filed: 1704 Ocean Avenue, Midwood

Developers flocked to Ocean Avenue in Brooklyn during the years following World War I, and after decades of decline, builders have finally returned to the broad, tree-lined thoroughfare. The latest new building planned there is 1704 Ocean Avenue, a seven-story residential development between Avenue L and Avenue M in Midwood.

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