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First thing that popped in my head was this being a (more) modern interpretation of 6 Shenton Way in Singapore.  I dig it.

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    This building is an absolute beauty!   181 MacDougal Street Nears Completion In Greenwich Village, Manhattan    

  • a throwback  to 1919 --   delancey street and the williamsburgh bridge in full swing during the streetcar era --    

  • the brooklyn tower -- from tuesday before we went to the cavs/nets game at barclays        

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the place has been a disgusting wreck, so what a surprize via an email from nys sen. holyman — good news at long, long last — 

 

i stayed here once in 1990 — the rooms are mammoth apt sized w/kitchens —highly, highly recommended!

 

 

Re-Opening the Iconic Chelsea Hotel 

 

On January 5, I joined the operators of the historic Chelsea Hotel, along with Mayor Adams, Council Member Bottcher, and CB4 Chair Jeffery LeFrancois in celebrating the re-opening of the iconic Chelsea Hotel, which has famously housed artists like Patti Smith and Bob Dylan and is even featured on the SNL opening credits. The hotel has been closed for renovations for the past 12 years, but, along with the rest of New York City, is now back in business.

 

https://hotelchelsea.com

 

 

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i bring the rare good news from north shore staten island aka the forgotten boro aka shaolin .... :D

 

 

the long decrepit lighthouse point apt building next to the ferry terminal has been getting revealed over the past week! 
work on the shell pick up again in the fall -- it's 12 stories, 115 apts and 20% affordable.

 

 

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bonus is 160 richmond terrace apt building nearby
its across the street from the ballpark parking garage
70 market rate apts and 30 affordable:

 

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^ no word on the three tower river north development that is supposed to go just behind this building. it's to be 750 apts w/225 affordable.

also, there is a five or six story mega homeless shelter going up in tompkinsville for 500 people --- families with children --- and ground floor retail and services. 

 

in addition, a large 12 story affordable housing development is going up in stapleton with 270 apts that is taller than nearby urby (571 market price apts). 


see render below -- no pics for now, but both are well underway.

 

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475 Bay Street in Stapleton (Courtesy of BFC Partners)

 

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yesterday -- brooklyn tower progress from the alice austin house park in rosebank, staten island.

 

note the unusual sight out here of a staten island ferry --

it was in the narrows doing donuts under the verazzano bridge on a training run. 

 

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another try at a wheel  — this time on the harlem waterfront at one two five:

 

 

 

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a throwback  to 1919 --

 

delancey street and the williamsburgh bridge in full swing during the streetcar era --

 

 

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speaking of old school, this closure is breaking my heart. i always wanted to go up to the walk up window and say, “two, two, gimme two!” but you know … lol.

 

 

‘End of an era’: Lenny’s Pizza, made famous in ‘Saturday Night Fever,’ closes after 70 years

 

By Gabrielle Holtermann

February 19, 2023

 

https://www.amny.com/news/lennys-pizza-saturday-night-fever-closes/

 

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xing lin is back at it with this great chase and hyatt tower render in the skyline --

 

 

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also of note because its a new david adjaye -- 

 

 

Adjaye Associates designs Brooklyn community centre to "disrupt the racial wealth gap"

 

Ben Dreith | 17 February 2023

 

 

UK studio Adjaye Associates has released designs for a Brooklyn campus for the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation that include a cultural centre and theatre.

 

The campus will include three structures at the institution's site on Fulton Street in central Brooklyn. It includes two mid-rise buildings at 16 and 13 storeys and an expressive cultural building and theatre at four storeys tall.

 

The 840,000-square-foot Restoration Innovation Campus will have a cultural centre, theatre, and offices, as well as public and commercial space, dedicated to educational and community-building initiatives.

 

 

more:

https://www.dezeen.com/2023/02/17/adjaye-associates-brooklyn-restoration-campus/

 

 

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more beautiful terracotta on the way for this mixed use supertall --

 

 

520 fifth ave (@ 43st)

1000'/76 fl/450k sq ft

 

 

Floor 1 : Retail, office/residential/restaurant lobbies
Floors 2 - 3 : Club/restaurant
Floors 4 - 28 : Office
Floors 29 - 30 : Mechanical
Floors 31 - 49 : Residential
Floors 50 - 51 : Mechanical
Floors 52 - 68 : Residential
Floor 69 : Lounge, Reading Room, Solarium
Floor 70 : Mechanical

 

 

Al Abbar Group has been awarded the design & engineering and supply of Aluminium & Glazing Materials for the external envelope of 520 FIFTH AVE., New York, NY 10036, USA.

520 Fifth Avenue is likely to be the first skyscraper residential structure along Fifth Avenue to top 75 floors. The project will rise in the heart of Midtown, 
one street away from the eastern end of Bryant Park.

Owner: Rabina Properties
Architect: Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates
Consultants: DeSimone Consulting Engineers
General Contractor: Suffolk Constructions
Façade Contractor: Alubuild, USA / Al Abbar North America
Façade Design & Supply Partner: Al Abbar Group, Dubai, UAE

Scope: Design & Engineering, Manufacturing and Supply of Unitized Curtain Wall with snow & ice retention clips, Stick Curtainwall, Skylight, Aluminum Wall Cladding, 
Aluminum Coping, Fire Rated Steel Curtain Wall, Glass Balustrades, Bronze Cladding, Back structure of Terracotta Wall Cladding and Canopies.

 

more:

https://www.alabbargroup.com/news/al-abbar-group-awarded-design-engineering-of-520-fifth-avenue-usa/

 

 

 

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i believe this is streetlevel storefront windows -- street level renders are still a mystery --

 

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the fellow nerds are going nuts on ssp -- the chase tower is getting facade.

 

i think its dark bronzey color? -- i am going up there today maybe i can get a look if i have time.

 

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I should go check it out when I'm in the office Tuesday. It's so close, but every time I'm like, "but the train is just downstairs and that takes me home..." and just do that instead haha.

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^ ha -- i hear you --

 

but i did get to go by and check it out ---

 

 

 

 

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another view —

looking down park ave —

 

 

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I went into the office yesterday, completely forgot I had written that, stepped outside onto my building's terrace on the 7th floor, looked at the construction from those few blocks away, and thought, "good enough, I'm heading down to the 7 to go home now" haha. Apparently even when I was supposed to tell myself to go see it, I can't be bothered. I blame the weather.

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the brooklyn tower -- from tuesday before we went to the cavs/nets game at barclays

 

 

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Driving down Flatbush Ave has such a dramatic vibe now with this building terminating that view. It has turned out so well. One of the best developments in awhile.

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hmm, i saw the newly unveiled lighthouse point apt building by the st george ferry terminal is getting some kind of nice stripey pizzazz finish on its facade:

 

 

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bonus — i think i found the most stateny thing ever — mozzarella bunnys for easter lol:

 

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Bunny mozzarella is back for 2023 Easter at two Staten Island shops. This version hails from Novelli's Pork Store in Oakwood. (Staten Island Advance/Pamela Silvestri)

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plans to turn the old iron triangle in willets point next to citifield/shea into housing and a soccer stadium:

 

 

Willets Point transformation plan gets plenty of support during public scoping hearing

 

By Bill Parry

Posted on April 5, 2023

 

 

The city’s plan to transform Willets Point into an entirely new neighborhood with 2,500 new affordable homes, a privately-funded soccer stadium and a 250-room hotel got overwhelming support from participants during a virtual hearing on April 4.

 

 

more:

https://qns.com/2023/04/willets-point-transformation-plan-gets-plenty-of-support-during-public-scoping-hearing/

 

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The city’s proposal to transform Willets Point with 2,500 affordable housing units, a new soccer stadium, and a public school got overwhelming support from Queens residents. (Rendering courtesy of S9 Architecture)

 

 

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more times are changing news from midtown — the hello deli of david letterman show fame is closing:

 

 

‘Letterman’s’ beloved Hello Deli bids farewell, says owner Rupert Jee

 

Angela Barbuti - Saturday

 

more:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/letterman-s-beloved-hello-deli-bids-farewell-says-owner-rupert-jee/ar-AA19Cy4g

 

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Rupert Jee, a fan favorite on the "Late Show with David Letterman," is selling Hello Deli, which has been in business for 31 years. Helayne Seidman

 

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mega conversion to residential downtown — we walk by this every time off the ferry — this a mammoth 1968 built brick facaded office bldg — it will be a lot of work to covert — 1.1M sqft —

 

 

The country’s biggest office-to-apartment conversion is underway inside the old Daily News office

 

By David Brand

Published Apr 13, 2023

 

 

More than 1,300 apartments will fill an empty office building in Lower Manhattan, making it the biggest residential conversion project in the country, its owners say.

 

The building at 25 Water St. was once home to the Daily News and JPMorgan Chase, which cleared out earlier in the pandemic. New owners are using decades-old rules that ease residential conversions in the Financial District to gut the offices, carve out courtyards and add 10 floors to the 22-story structure.

 

 

more:

https://gothamist.com/news/the-countrys-biggest-office-to-apartment-conversion-is-underway-inside-the-old-daily-news-office

 

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^ i just noticed the architect for that one was the now defunct firm of Carson & Lundin (and later Carson, Lundin & Shaw). they also desgned 55 public square in cle.

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enjoy three minutes with the structural engineer who helped design 270 park aka the u/c chase bank hq tower:

 

 

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very cool — thought to be long lost winold reiss empire state building restaurant deco artwork is rediscovered (he also did the cinci rail terminal deco artwork).

 

 

 

Vanished Murals From the Empire State Building Rediscovered

 

The skyscraper once held some beloved Art Deco artworks: Winold Reiss’s commission for a Longchamps restaurant.

 

By Eve M. Kahn

Eve M. Kahn is an independent scholar and former weekly Antiques columnist for The New York Times.

May 7, 2023

 

 

Towering remnants of tropical décor from the young Empire State Building, which were believed to have vanished decades ago, will return to public view on May 12 in a TEFAF art fair booth at the Park Avenue Armory in Manhattan. Bernard Goldberg Fine Arts gallery will offer these works, two oval murals of damsels engulfed in rainbows of blossoms and foliage, which the German-born artist Winold Reisspainted in 1938 for a Longchamps restaurant at the Empire State Building’s base. (It’s now a Starbucks.)

 

“Oh, my lord,” the art and architectural historian C. Ford Peatross said last month when he first saw the murals, nearly eight feet tall, at the Goldberg gallery in New York. Peatross, who has been researching Reiss since the 1980s, had previously seen only photos and sketches of the Longchamps works, mostly in black and white. “It’s a major find,” the historian said.

 

 

more:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/07/arts/design/vanished-murals-from-the-empire-state-building-rediscovered.html?unlocked_article_code=Ihb9HRaEWknndi-os153HMf0COppjQ3TxM0mWRl-xqSJrZ_rjWhB0nafhxsBP3Ix39cz6LvT1Nfrna0QSpLeswuwIa2EpfVF5Ldd4xyAkAoRI8_1fYlrU5ZXwLg7c_5vpZ03PJW8PO8LcpytxSsN6YCex4k4kklfPmjULngjvC2cCxPOQ-v4T5JIOdgIWiQ62xFAq3HzgF0S_sR6s61rwzrfivCzS-m8-CE-k_4K9j-9H6c7QPz55jra4Qjf3BHsuCDS2JGlbcJQpFSy8pfBvNPHP9P4A8LXnApU94Enx4AM42N5xbMmteI1O5cgZp0eNGPMnnYKp-bGtwfYJUZlJSVxNRBXp0ltpOPn_e2NZfIo2egTBH27-wyEnWHoyusjojeWfOKk51fC&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

 

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Oval murals nearly eight feet tall by the German-born American artist Winold Reiss, shown in Bernard Goldberg’s gallery space, were part of a series of eight that originally hung in a Longchamps restaurant in the Empire State Building. They were long presumed lost or destroyed until the gallery director, Ken Sims, spotted them -- still unidentified -- while browsing an online marketplace. Credit...Karsten Moran for The New York Times

 

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Winold Reiss with one of his murals at Longchamps restaurant in the Empire State Building, circa 1940. Credit...Ezra Stoller/Esto

 

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this three tower development on the hunters point south queens waterfront is well underway --

 

 

 

 

Three-Tower Development At 2-20 And 2-21 Malt Drive Rises Above Hunters Point, Queens

 

BY: MICHAEL YOUNG AND MATT PRUZNICK 8:00 AM ON FEBRUARY 27, 2023

 

Construction is rising on 2-20 and 2-21 Malt Drive, a three-tower development in the Hunters Point South master plan in Hunters Point, Queens. Designed by SLCE Architects and developed by TF Cornerstone, the project consists of a 34-story, 390-foot-tall structure that will yield 575 units at 2-20 Malt Drive and a two-tower design at 2-21 Malt Dive composed of a 38-story, 440-foot-tall high-rise and a 25-story, 310-foot-tall building. A final unit count for 2-21 Malt Drive has yet to be announced. Bud North LLC and Bud South LLC are the general contractors for 2-21 and 2-20 Malt Drive, respectively, which will rise from a subdivided plot bound by 54th Avenue to the north, Newton Creek to the south, and 2nd Street to the west.

 

more:

https://newyorkyimby.com/2023/02/three-tower-development-at-2-20-and-2-21-malt-drive-rises-above-hunters-point-queens.html

 

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2-20 Malt Drive (right) and 2-21 Malt Drive (left). Designed by SLCE Architects.

 

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supertall 520 fifth in midtown also underway --

 

 

KPF’s 520 Fifth Avenue Supertall Continues Its Ascent In Midtown, Manhattan

 

BY: MICHAEL YOUNG AND MATT PRUZNICK 8:00 AM ON MAY 10, 2023

 

 

Construction is rising on 520 Fifth Avenue, a 76-story residential supertall in Midtown, Manhattan. Designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox and developed by Rabina, which took over from Ceruzzi Properties and SMI USA in 2019, the 1,000-foot-tall skyscraper will yield 507,608 square feet with 98 residential units, as well as commercial space on the lower floors and four cellar levels. WSP is the structural engineer, DeSimone Consulting Engineers is the façade consultant, and Suffolk Construction is the general contractor for the property, which is located at the northwest corner of Fifth Avenue and West 43rd Street, one block north of Bryant Park.

 

 

more:

https://newyorkyimby.com/2023/05/kpfs-520-fifth-avenue-supertall-continues-its-ascent-in-midtown-manhattan.html

 

 

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hard at work in the pit yesterday on the goofy extell tower in times square -- 

 

740 Eighth Ave (Extell) | 1,067 FT | 52 FLOORS

 

and plz do enjoy this one as i paid $9 w/the tip for a bottle of coors light for it at the playwright pub next door to get to the roof deck. 😅

 

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also from yesterday, the chase tower just north of grand central -- 

 

 

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a big thank you to all the developers and their cheerleaders who constantly evangelize about how we can never have enough skyscrapers, supertalls, massive apartment towers,  etc. etc. etc. Well, I guess we can have too many. The real estate industry is obviously unfamiliar with the term "golden mean."

 

 

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^ well that's definitely going to be a problem ... in like a billion years. 😅

Rising seas >>>>>>>>> a sinking city. 
NYC is a long, long way from being like Mexico City, or Jakarta. Two cities that I’ve seen, with my own eyes, that are sinking rapidly. 

My hovercraft is full of eels

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interesting!

 

 

 

City’s first geothermal apartment building tops out in Coney Island

 

By Isabel Song Beer
Posted on May 24, 2023

 


New York City’s first-ever multifamily geothermal building is one step closer to welcoming tenants to Coney Island. 

 

Real estate and development firm LOCR announced on Tuesday they had built the top floor of the 471,000-square foot, 463-unit residential building at 1515 Surf Ave.

 


more:
https://www.brooklynpaper.com/geothermal-project-tops-out-coney-island/

 

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LCOR tops out new geothermal development in Coney Island. Image rendering courtesy LCOR

 

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^ aah nice. i had a worksite in ozone. and funny enough i was just in neirs the other day.

 

i think the old queenslink el line should be held for a rail line, but if the communities want a rails to trails highline style park that would work. its so cool to have it and something useful needs to be done with it!

 

here is my magic hour 85st/forest pkwy station post neirs insta pic when i was heading to jamaica.

 

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On 4/13/2023 at 11:14 PM, mrnyc said:

mega conversion to residential downtown — we walk by this every time off the ferry — this a mammoth 1968 built brick facaded office bldg — it will be a lot of work to covert — 1.1M sqft —

 

 

The country’s biggest office-to-apartment conversion is underway inside the old Daily News office

 

By David Brand

Published Apr 13, 2023

 

 

More than 1,300 apartments will fill an empty office building in Lower Manhattan, making it the biggest residential conversion project in the country, its owners say.

 

The building at 25 Water St. was once home to the Daily News and JPMorgan Chase, which cleared out earlier in the pandemic. New owners are using decades-old rules that ease residential conversions in the Financial District to gut the offices, carve out courtyards and add 10 floors to the 22-story structure.

 

 

more:

https://gothamist.com/news/the-countrys-biggest-office-to-apartment-conversion-is-underway-inside-the-old-daily-news-office

 

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no time wasted on this — they have been hard at demo-ing the interior when i walk by. here is a recent pic:

 

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the manhattan jail getting demo’d for a big modern rikers facility — i saw the ‘bridge of sighs’ us civilians on the outside below used to walk under that was connected to the courts on the left was torn down.

 

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welp so our nyc geowizical doppleganger over on ssp, xing lin, has been doing a good job of steering us to imagine 780 eighth ave in times square won't look so odd and terrible -- i hope he is right!

 

 

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also, looks like the u/c park ave chase tower is above met life/pan am bldg height now, so 800'+ & 600' to go --

 

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On 5/29/2023 at 1:04 AM, Brianna Coyle said:

As a former resident of Ozone Park (lower Queens), I'm pretty excited about this project.

https://thequeenslink.org/

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did you go?

 

 

wat to do?


QueensLink hosts Ozone Park town hall to discuss plans for old Rockaway Beach line

 

By Carlotta Mohamed

 


About 50 community members attended the QueensLink town hall in Ozone Park on March 16 to discuss plans for the dormant 3.5 miles Rockaway Beach train line that would bring accessible transportation to transit desert communities. 

 

Volunteers of QueensLink heard community feedback on how to best meet residents’ needs for transit and more park space for the infrastructure project.

 


more:
https://qns.com/2023/03/queenslink-hosts-ozone-park-town-hall/

 

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Ozone Park residents attend the QueensLink town hall at MS 137 America’s School of Heroes for a presentation and discussion regarding future plans for the old Rockaway Beach train line on March 16. (Photo by Carlotta Mohamed)

 

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this is a horrible worry — i have seen somebody in our bldg with a big e-bike — its just one bootleg chinese battery away from disaster:

 

 

As E-Bike Batteries Spark Fires Across NYC, Landlords, Homeowners Move to Restrict Them

 

Mar 20, 2023 • 09:00amby Anna Bradley-Smith

 

 

A few months ago, Mona Biblow’s co-op board banned all electric bikes from her 72-unit building in Kensington. Looking out from her living room on the seventh floor, she said she understands why.

 

Across the street, a number of windows in a large residential rental building remain boarded up after a fire tore through apartments, she said. At first she heard it was caused by an e-bike battery, but has subsequently heard it could have been faulty wiring.

 

Regardless, she said, she doesn’t want to be in the same situation as those whose homes went up in smoke.

 

“I don’t think [the board president] was fighting with anybody with [the ban], you know, everybody seemed to be on board with it, because it’s scary, it just is.”

 

 

more:

https://www.brownstoner.com/brooklyn-life/ebike-battery-fire-landlord-tenant-coop-lease-safety-insurance/

 

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A delivery worker rides an e-bike in Brooklyn Heights. Photo by Susan De Vries

 

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what about yonkers, you ask?  😂👍

 

 

 

 

Financial Incentives Approved For Miroza Tower At 44 Hudson Street In Yonkers

 

BY: SEBASTIAN MORRIS 7:30 AM ON JUNE 9, 2023

 

 

The Yonkers Industrial Development Agency has approved financial incentives for the Miroza Tower, a 25-story residential building at 44 Hudson Street in the city’s downtown. Designed by INOA Architecture, the structure will yield 267 rental apartments, a collection of amenity spaces, and 1,699 square feet of commercial space on the ground floor.

While the project team has not specified the mix of residential floor plans, amenity spaces will include a party room, library, conference room, gym, two resident lounges, rooftop garden, and a children’s playroom. The parking garage will accommodate up to 222 vehicles. The project will create an additional 25 parking spaces in an off-site lot at 56-60 Buena Vista Avenue, about one block away from the Miroza Tower.

Renderings show a modern design composed of a stack of offset volumes with rounded corners, resulting in numerous cantilevering and cutout terraces. The façade is largely composed of floor-to-ceiling glass and trimmed with white paneling.

The development is the latest project from Azorim Investment, Development & Construction Co. Ltd., a publicly traded Israeli company with real estate projects in the United States, India, Ukraine, Brazil, and Europe.

Total construction costs are estimated at $126 million.

 

 

more:

https://newyorkyimby.com/2023/06/financial-incentives-approved-for-miroza-tower-at-44-hudson-street-in-yonkers.html

 

 

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Aerial rendering of The Miroza Tower at 44 Hudson Street - Murat Mutlu; INOA Architecture

 

 

 

 

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well you just never know the twists and turns behind real estate deals -- and some are quite ugly.

 

the catholic church is selling property at 539 w54st, the 100yr old st ambrose church and centro maria, one of the last all women boarding house's left in the city. the reason give to leadership? to help pay off the hundreds of lawsuits against gay pedophile priests.

 

and some people wonder why america isn't very religious anymore. ugh.

 

of course a developer got it for steal ...

 

 

more:

https://newyorkyimby.com/2023/06/rendering-revealed-for-539-west-54th-street-in-hells-kitchen-manhattan.html

https://www.thecity.nyc/2020/8/24/21400387/centro-maria-womens-home-to-shut-allies-blame-church-lawsuits

 

 

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Rendering of 539 West 54th Street - GF55 Architects

 

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Street view of 539 West 54th Street (via Google Maps)

 

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downtown brooklyn --

 

 

 

Foundations Underway For 49-Story Skyscraper At 98 DeKalb Avenue In Fort Greene, Brooklyn

 

BY: MICHAEL YOUNG AND MATT PRUZNICK 8:00 AM ON JUNE 9, 2023

 

 

Excavation and foundation work are moving along at 98 DeKalb Avenue, the site of a 49-story residential skyscraper in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Designed by SLCE Architects and developed by Rockrose Development, the 610-foot-tall structure will yield 418,092 square feet with 609 residential units and 3,775 square feet of commercial space. 180 Ashland GC LLC is the general contractor for the project, which is alternately addressed as 180 Ashland Place and located at the corner of DeKalb Avenue and Ashland Place.

 

 

more:

https://newyorkyimby.com/2023/06/foundations-underway-for-49-story-skyscraper-at-98-dekalb-avenue-in-fort-greene-brooklyn.html

 

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98 DeKalb Avenue. Designed by SLCE Architects

 

 

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cute view of 520 fifth ave progress as seen down below

1000'/76fl

 

 

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plans for fosters citadel tower at 350 park at e51st underway —

 

1350’/51fl

 

 

 

Ken Griffin inks massive deal with Steven Roth, William Rudin to expand Citadel’s NYC footprint

 

By Steve Cuozzo

May 2, 2023

 

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Three billionaire moguls — Citadel’s Ken Griffin, Vornado’s Steven Roth and Rudin Management’s William Rudin — are putting their megabucks into the Big Apple’s future.

The trio formed a joint-venture partnership that will give Citadel room to grow in the city and bring an iconic new office skyscraper to Midtown Park Avenue — despite forecasts that work-from-home will make offices obsolete.

“We think we have seen the peak in work from home,” Roth said Tuesday during Vornado’s first-quarter earnings report.

“With each passing week, the office buildings feel more like 2019. And we believe it’s just a matter of time before everyone is back for good,” he added.

 

 

more:

https://nypost.com/2023/05/02/ken-griffin-inks-massive-deal-with-steven-roth-william-rudin-to-expand-citadels-nyc-footprint/

 

 

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via tkd — Made this early in the morning (based upon how I have understood/interpreted the render)

 

 

the foster likely seems similar to torre cespa

 

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i believe this is a render for the public plaza in front of 270 park aka the chase tower. first i’ve seen of it.

 

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On 7/7/2023 at 2:49 PM, mrnyc said:

i believe this is a render for the public plaza in front of 270 park aka the chase tower. first i’ve seen of it.

 

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Hmmm, I don't know. The building itself wouldn't be correct in this rendering. The entire base is glass with the flared columns pronounced. This appears to be the Madison side based on the building in the background which would also mean 270's base would be sloped on this side. Maybe an older proposal for a different building on the site?

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wow, after 20yrs the domino sugar sign is back lighting up the east river waterfront -

 

 

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re some newer towers —

who owns what —

office/retail only —

via the real deal —

 

 

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