In the past, developers in Williamsburg have stuck to apartments, trying to cram as many studios and one- and two-bedrooms as possible into their zoning allotments, trying to capitalize on the influx of millennials seeking rental housing. But…
Amidst the trials of Amanda Burden, the recession and the American Folk Art Museum controversy, 53 West 53rd Street has been a long time coming. Finally, dirt is now moving, and excavation for the Jean Nouvel-designed supertall is…
On the eastern side of Lexington Avenue, between 33rd and 34th Streets, two older low-rise buildings spanning 227-229 Lexington Avenue are currently awaiting demolition to make way for a new residential development. And now, YIMBY has…
While affordable housing projects dominate new building permit filings in the South Bronx, in the better-off eastern and northern parts of the borough, YIMBY is starting to see a steady stream of applications for new market-rate rental buildings….
Williamsburg’s trendy Northside is jam-packed with some of the most unattractive structures of any close-in New York City neighborhood, with the simple-but-handsome faces of the area’s 19th century wood-frame homes disfigured decades ago by tacky vinyl paneling….
