Architecture



An aerial view of cleared Mount Manresa site, image via Google Maps

Staten Island Developers File Plans for Houses on Streets Named for Greed at Mount Manresa

In February, Politico New York reported that a judge would allow Staten Island Borough President James Oddo to choose street names that signified greed and deception for a new development on the site of the former Mount Manresa Jesuit Retreat, next to the approach for the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. Now, the builders have filed plans for their sprawling townhouse project on Cupidity Drive, Avidita Place, and Fouberie Lane.

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4650 Broadway, rendering via DCP/Acadia Sherman Ave LLC

City Council Votes Down Rezoning for 15-Story Inwood Apartment Building at 4650 Broadway

After two weeks of haphazard fits and starts and a confrontational protest with tenant activists, City Council Member Ydanis Rodriguez and the City Council Land Use Committee unanimously disapproved a plan to rezone the corner of Broadway and Sherman avenues, which would have paved the way for the construction of a 15-story apartment building known as Sherman Plaza.

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