Permits have been filed for a seven-story residential building at 40-22 61st Street in Woodside, Queens. Located between Woodwise Avenue and 43rd Avenue, the interior lot is a short walk to the 61st Street-Woodside subway station, serviced by the 7 train. The Ampiera Group under the 40-22 61st Street LLC is listed as the owner behind the applications.
Permits have been filed for a seven-story residential building at 5 Withers Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Located at the intersection of North 9th Street and Withers Street, the corner lot is a short walk to the Bedford Avenue subway station, serviced by the L train. Yisroel Greenfeld under the Sunshine Plaza LLC is listed as the owner behind the applications.
The scaffolding and black netting that has shrouded Hillrose 28, aka 157-161 East 28th Street in the Manhattan neighborhood of Kips Bay, is coming down. The facade is finally being revealed, starting with the stepped upper floors and roof parapet. C3D Architecture is the project designer, Lemay + Escobar is the interior designer, and Forkosh Development is the developer of the topped-out, 191-foot-tall, 20-story property. Corcoran Sunshine is in charge of marketing and selling the 43 residential units, which comprises 66,125 square feet of space in the development.
Permits have been filed for a six-story mixed-use building at 44-36 Douglaston Parkway in Douglaston, Queens. Located at the intersection of Northern Boulevard and Douglaston Parkway, the corner lot is close to the Douglaston LIRR train station, serviced by the Port Washington line. Frank Russo under the 241-15 Northern, LLC is listed as the owner behind the applications.
Façade work has reached the crown of 200 Amsterdam Avenue, the Upper West Side’s tallest skyscraper. The 52-story, 283,000-square-foot project is being developed by SJP Properties and Mitsui Fudosan America and is designed by Elkus Manfredi Architects with CetraRuddy as the interior designer. Despite heated opposition from NIMBY civic organizations led by the Municipal Arts Society and a ruling by a Supreme State Court Judge that could lead to a reduction of 20 or more floors from the top half of the structure, construction is still continuing as planned.
