Architecture

50 West Street is Topped Out And Nearing Exterior Completion

8:00 am on October 23, 2015 By Vitali Ogorodnikov

Exterior completion is approaching for one of the most dramatic additions to the Downtown skyline in decades. The Helmut Jahn-designed residential skyscraper at 50 West Street reached its full height of 784 feet in September. As of today, most scaffolding has been removed from the crown, revealing a slanted concrete halo. The elegant concrete band will soon be obscured by a cocoon of curvy glass, which is being installed only nine floors below.

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25-29 Cox Place in April 2015. photo by Christopher Bride for PropertyShark

Permits Filed: Cypress Hills Townhouses, 25-29 Cox Place

7:30 am on October 23, 2015 By Rebecca Baird-Remba

As the administration’s East New York rezoning marches through the public review process, small market-rate developments are growing on the neighborhood’s outskirts, away from the rezoning area south of Atlantic Avenue. One such project is in the works in Cypress Hills, the northern section of the neighborhood that stretches from Atlantic up to the acres of cemeteries along the Brooklyn-Queens border.

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10 Sullivan's curved facade

10 Sullivan Street Nears the Finish Line in Soho

7:00 am on October 23, 2015 By Rebecca Baird-Remba

The flatiron-shaped facade at 10 Sullivan Street in Soho has most of its hand-laid Norman bricks and curved glass, and workers are busily installing bathroom tile and gas fireplaces. The building will eventually top out at 16 stories and hold 22 condos on a triangular lot wedged between Sullivan Street, 6th Avenue, Spring, and Broome Streets.

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550 Washington Street

First Look At Options for Redevelopment of 550 Washington Street, Hudson Square

8:00 am on October 22, 2015 By Nikolai Fedak

Yesterday, the New York Times reported that 550 Washington Street would soon traverse ULURP as its owners, Westbrook Partners and Atlas Capital Group, want to redevelop the existing building in exchange for air rights from the failing Pier 40, which would also be saved. And now YIMBY has the first look at massing diagrams of the proposed plans, which reflect both the as-of-right redevelopment option, as well as what the site would look like if the ULURP application is approved.

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2150 Mill Avenue, image via Bing Maps

Mill Basin Hebrew School Plans Housing, 2150 Mill Avenue

8:00 am on October 22, 2015 By Rebecca Baird-Remba

Most Brooklynites know that Borough Park and Midwood are Orthodox Jewish strongholds, but fewer people are familiar with the somewhat smaller, tight-knit Jewish community in Mill Basin, a coastal neighborhood along Jamaica Bay. A developer plans to build six stories of faculty and staff housing next door to a Jewish charter school, according to new building applications filed yesterday.

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