Architecture



19 Hausman Street in December 2014, photo by Christopher Bride for PropertyShark

Permits Filed: 19 Hausman Street, Greenpoint

Eastern Greenpoint has long been grittier and more industrial than its western sibling, but that hasn’t stopped developers from venturing to the area around the elevated Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and the Newtown Wastewater Treatment Plant. Yesterday, new building applications were filed for a five-story apartment building at 19 Hausman Street, half a block north of the elevated highway that runs along Meeker Avenue.

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3644 Oxford Avenue, image via Bing Maps

Permits Filed: 3644 Oxford Avenue, 14-Story Apartment Building in Riverdale

New development rarely happens in Riverdale, because big brick co-op buildings and townhouses populated most of the northwestern Bronx neighborhood in the wave of construction that swept across New York City after World War II. But every once in a while, a developer cobbles together a site in the quiet, middle-class enclave. Yesterday, we spotted permits for a 14-story apartment building at 3644 Oxford Avenue, just over the border from Fieldston.

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