The public component of the Broadway Triangle rezoning – designating the land bounded by Broadway, Union, and Flushing avenues for residential development – may have been halted amidst controversy over whom the plan benefits, but private construction within the…
Ocean View Manor Home for Adults, on Coney Island, is about to get a bit bigger, according to an alteration permit filed with the Department of Buildings yesterday. The expansion comes after years of planning,…
With the 2014 building code finally in effect as of January 1, new permit filings with the DoB have been a bit slow. But post-approval amendments are coming on fast and strong, including a filing today…
North of the Bronx, the city of Mount Vernon is in many ways more similar to New York City than to anything else in Westchester County, with its dense housing stock and diverse population of African-Americans, West…
In 2009, the Broadway Triangle – formerly industrial land bounded by Flushing, Union, and Broadway, – was rezoned, somewhat controversially, for residential development catering to ultra-Orthodox Jewish condo buyers from nearby South Williamsburg. A few years later, a smaller…
