View of the Smorgusbar beer garden at Harborside Jersey City - Courtesy of Smorgusbar

Smorgasburg Debuts 300-Seat Outdoor Venue at Jersey City’s Harborside Commercial Campus

7:30 am on July 14, 2021 By Sebastian Morris

This week, Smogasburg opened a new 300-seat outdoor venue at the Harborside commercial campus in Jersey City, joining Smorgasbar, which opened earlier this summer. The company’s premier outdoor destination in New Jersey now offers local craft beers, barbecue tacos, lobster rolls, and brick oven pizza. The debut is the latest in a flurry of announcements from developer Mack-Cali, which is quickly transforming the Harborside campus into a mixed-use destination for local residents and Manhattanites just a quick train or ferry ride away.

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58 Palmetto Street in Bushwick, Brooklyn

Affordable Housing Units Still Available at 58 Palmetto Street in Bushwick, Brooklyn

7:00 am on July 14, 2021 By Vanessa Londono

The affordable housing lottery has launched for 58 Palmetto Street, a six-story residential development in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Designed by Walter J. Hollien Architects and developed by South Side Units, the building yields 25,880 square feet. Available on NYC Housing Connect are nine units for residents at 130 percent of the area median income (AMI), ranging in eligible income from $65,143 to $167,570.

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Pendry Manhattan West Prepares for September Debut at Four Manhattan West in Midtown, Manhattan

8:00 am on July 13, 2021 By Michael Young

Pendry Manhattan West, a 21-story hotel tower, is getting ready to open its doors to guests this September at 440 West 33rd Street in the eight-acre Manhattan West development in Midtown West. Also known as Four Manhattan West in the five-building complex, the 281-foot-tall Pendry is designed by Skidmore Owings & Merrill and developed by Brookfield Properties and will yield 164 guest rooms and 30 suites featuring California-influenced designs by Gachot Studios. The structure will also house a Mediterranean-themed restaurant, a lounge, a 1,600-square-foot open-air bar, a 150-person ballroom, and 6,000 square feet of meeting and event spaces. This is the first Pendry Hotels & Resorts property in New York City.

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167 Chrystie Street Approaches Completion on Manhattan’s Lower East Side

7:30 am on July 13, 2021 By Michael Young

Exterior work is nearing completion on 167 Chrystie Street, a 16-story residential building on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Designed by ODA Architects, the 77,000-square-foot, 170-foot-tall structure will yield 78 units, averaging 680 square feet apiece, as well as 4,600 square feet of ground-floor retail space. Permits were filed by the Arava Group in August 2018 and Be-Aviv and Nexus Building Development Group, Inc. are developing the project, which is located between Rivington Street to the north and Delancey Street to the south. Sara D. Roosevelt Park lies across Chrystie Street to the east.

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