Articles by Reid Wilson

651 Fulton Street

BAM To Link Three Properties At 651 Fulton Street With Single-Story Base, Fort Greene

6:00 am on August 3, 2015 By Reid Wilson

The Brooklyn Academy of Music is planning to connect three Fort Greene properties with a unified single-story base, according to The New York Times.The buildings include the three-story BAM Harvey Theater at 651 Fulton Street, a vacant lot at No. 653, and the ground floor of the condominium building at 230 Ashland Place. The $25 million project will link BAM’s spaces, while creating visual art galleries and amenities, including a cafe. Construction will begin soon, and completion is scheduled for September 2017, with Mitchell Giurgola Architects designing.

128 Bard Avenue

Three Stories, Eight Residential Units Coming To 128 Bard Avenue, West New Brighton

4:00 pm on July 31, 2015 By Reid Wilson

Whitewell Properties has filed applications for four three-story residential buildings, with a combined total of eight units, spanning the lots of 118-130 Bard Avenue, in West New Brighton (on Staten Island’s North Shore). The development will net 8,145 square feet in residential space, which works out to units averaging 1,020 square feet. Think Design Architecture is the applicant of record, and an existing two-story house — last purchased for $560,037 in 2014 — must first be demolished.

40-20 23rd Road

Four-Story, Two-Unit Residential Project Planned At 40-20 23rd Road, Astoria

3:00 pm on July 31, 2015 By Reid Wilson

Astoria-based Voxx Realty has filed applications for a four-story, two-unit residential building on the small triangular property at 40-20 23rd Road, in northern Astoria’s Ditmars-Steinway. The building is located eight blocks east of the N/Q train’s Astoria Blvd stop, and will boast units averaging 1,365 square feet. Anastasios Giannopoulos is the architect of record, and an existing single-story structure must first be removed.

25-34 Steinway Street

Four-Story, 10-Unit Mixed-Use Building Filed At 25-34 Steinway Street, Astoria

2:00 pm on July 31, 2015 By Reid Wilson

Mark Misk, head of Nikomar Homes, has filed applications for a four-story, 10-unit mixed-use building at 25-34 Steinway Street, in central Astoria, located 10 blocks from the N/Q train’s 30 Avenue stop. The building will measure 14,280 square feet in total, featuring 4,755 square feet of retail space on the ground floor; residential units will average an accommodating 952 square feet each. Chris Papa’s CVP Architect is the applicant of record, and an existing two-story building must first be demolished.

4302 4th Avenue

Three-Story Redevelopment Site At 4302 4th Avenue Purchased, Sunset Park

12:30 pm on July 31, 2015 By Reid Wilson

Earlier this year, the landmarked buildings at 4302 4th Avenue, in northern Sunset Park, were placed on the market as a development site, and now Yosef Streicher has purchased the property for $6 million, according to Commercial Observer. The dilapidating two- and three-story buildings, which amount to nearly 20,000 square feet, need to be gut-renovated, and 14,567 square feet of unused air rights can be used for an expansion. No plans have been disclosed, but changes to the facade would require approval from the LPC.

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