A sleepy pre-war block in Kensington is about to lose two large brick houses so that an eight-story apartment building can rise in their place. Architect Charles Mallea filed plans today for a 60-unit, 41,000-square-foot project…
Developers have long avoided building under the elevated tracks in Bushwick, but the lure of cheaper property not far from Williamsburg has pulled in buyers looking to cash in on the neighborhood’s swiftly rising rents. And so someone has filed plans to build five three-story townhouses at 75-83 Suydam Street, a wedge-shaped corner lot in the shadow of the clattering M train tracks on Myrtle Avenue.
Despite improvements in recent years, parts of Upper Manhattan are still smattered with vacant lots, but yet another will soon be turned into an actual building. Permits were filed today for a 7-story residential structure at 17 Convent Avenue, on the southeast corner of Convent and 128th Street, just to the south of City College.
On the eastern edge of Queens in Richmond Hill, waves of new immigrants have slowly pushed up demand for larger apartments, like the ones planned for a big vacant lot at 121-01 Jamaica Avenue. Permits were filed…
Residential development in Greenpoint is heating up so quickly that even less desirable spots—like a former chemical plant on a highway-like stretch of McGuiness Boulevard—can command big bucks and sprout apartment buildings. Earlier today, an…
