In 2005, old timers in the neighborhood and the Department of City Planning, led by Amanda Burden, tried desperately to stamp out development in Bay Ridge. Virtually the entire neighborhood was downzoned, arresting the natural…
Density along the southern end of the High Line is fairly limited by zoning, but one developer found a creative way around that: buy land on either side and connect two buildings, with the shadowed structure underneath…
Plans for the individual buildings of Related’s Hudson Yards have continued to evolve, and a new rendering shows an apparent redesign of Diller Scofidio + Renfro and the Rockwell Group’s 15 Hudson Yards, which will house condominiums in…
A vast chasm of under-utilized land lies along Atlantic Avenue, east of the recently renamed Pacific Park, and is zoned for low-rent industrial and commercial uses. But just to the east of the no man’s land,…
New York City has been undergoing somewhat of a pre-war revival in recent years. While there’s no shortage of new glassy fishbowls, they’re now being joined by historicist structures with stone façades, perhaps sparked by the success…
