Brookfield Properties and Park Tower Group have completed Eagle + West, a 745-unit high-rise complex designed by international design studio OMA. Located at 1 Eagle Street within the Greenpoint Landing mega-development, the complex features a pair of cantilevered towers that sit 30 and 40 stories above the Greenpoint waterfront in Brooklyn.
A new recreational space in Hudson River Park will include play elements inspired by marine science to teach children about the local ecology. The 4,000-square-foot space on Pier 26 at North Moore Street is being developed by the Hudson River Park Trust, who broke ground on the space yesterday. Designed by OLIN, the interactive sculptural elements are inspired by wildlife and the Hudson River habitat and will also serve as an outdoor extension of the environmental programming planned for the future Hudson River Estuarium.
Permits have been filed for a six-story mixed-use building at 2460 White Plains Road in Allerton, The Bronx. Located between 75th Street and 76th Street, the lot is one block north of the Freeman Street subway station, serviced by the 2 and 5 trains. Zev Mayer of Skyrock NYC is listed as the owner behind the applications.
At number 18 on our year-end countdown of the tallest buildings under construction in the New York area is The Brook, a 51-story residential skyscraper at 589 Fulton Street in Downtown Brooklyn. Designed by Beyer Blinder Belle and developed by Witkoff and Apollo Global Management, the 600-foot-tall structure will yield 591 units with 30 percent reserved for affordable housing, as well as 30,000 square feet of retail space and a 12,000-square-foot cellar level. Bonetti Kozerski is the interior designer and Suffolk Construction is the general contractor for the property, which is bound by DeKalb Avenue to the north, Fulton Street to the south, Flatbush Avenue diagonally to the east, and Bond Street to the west.
Sunset Yards, a ten-story converted factory, is now open for business at 341 39th Street in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Completed by New Gables Capital, the building will serve as the new home of the Brooklyn Prospect Sunset Yards Elementary School and New York Studio Factory, a coworking venture that provides space for musicians, producers, artists, and small local businesses.
