At the bottom of Tribeca, on opposite sides of Park Place, two very different buildings continue to rise. The first is Silverstein’s 30 Park Place, designed by Robert A.M. Stern, which will eventually stand 67 stories and 937 feet. The…
Development in Long Island City’s Court Square area has been somewhat patchy, with dense buildings sprouting on blocks of low-slung warehouses. Crescent Street has been the exception, with the stretch just north of the Queensboro Bridge filling out,…
For about a century — since the tenement laws forbid the construction of the old railroad and dumbbell apartment buildings — for-profit, market-rate builders in New York City have largely shunned the poor. The city is still…
32 2nd Avenue [Bowery Boogie]: Anthology Film Archives are planning a five-story vertical expansion of their two-story building at 32-34 2nd Avenue, in the Bowery. The landmarked building’s height increase will be financed by a wealthy European donor, although no applications or…
Brooklyn: 20 Jefferson Street: Bleeker LLC has filed applications to construct a four-story and eight-unit residential building of 6,177 square feet at 20 Jefferson Street, in Bushwick. Emergency demolition of the lot’s two-story predecessor was ordered…
