A few weeks ago, the Department of City Planning announced its intention to tweak the city’s zoning rules to encourage the production of affordable housing. The most important change is a reduction in the city’s parking…
If there’s one building type that defines East Williamsburg, it’s the vinyl-faced wood-frame building. Built long ago as modest workers’ dwellings, whatever the original façades were, whether clapboard or brick, have since been refaced with vinyl,…
Most of Mortar Architecture + Development’s projects – ranging from the modern to the traditional – are located in East Williamsburg. But they’re also designing a building in the neighborhood that came just before Williamsburg in…
While New York City’s most noteworthy residential supertalls are about to begin rising along 57th Street, another project that has been in the works for far longer is also pushing forward, at 53 West 53rd Street….
There aren’t many predominately residential areas in New York City that have been rezoned for denser development in recent years, with planners and politicians instead choosing to focus infill on commercial and industrial sites, with residential…
