While Court Square and Hunters Point are undergoing a building boom due to their residential rezoning during the 2000s, the area north of the Queensboro Bridge — formerly called Ravenswood, now considered southern Astoria — is also seeing…
Most New Yorkers may recognize the office tower at 1250 Broadway as the entrance to Koreatown, but owner Jamestown is well on its way to repositioning the black-and-white modernist skyscraper as a tech hub. To that end,…
The hipster vs. Hasid bike wars were won decisively by the frum faction when the bike lanes through South Williamsburg were erased, sparing the Satmar adherents from the indignity of a dedicated thoroughfare for immodestly-clad cyclists. But on the development…
Permits were recently filed for a 67-unit apartment building at 533 Bay Street in Stapleton, on Staten Island. Today, we’ve got a rendering, courtesy of Arker Companies, which is developing; Aufgang is the architect. As noted previously, the apartments…
In 2008, the Dutch Kills neighborhood — situated between Astoria and Long Island City — was rezoned for residential use. The change was hardly generous, only allowing four-story buildings, but there were pockets of higher-intensity uses permitted,…
