Architecture

Construction Workers on NYC’s Public Projects Make Up To 177% More Than Private Industry Counterparts

8:00 am on June 3, 2015 By Nikolai Fedak

New York City’s infrastructure crisis stems from many issues, but one of the biggest problems in maintaining and expanding the city’s arteries are construction costs, which have ballooned into a stratosphere of unknown numbers and complete non-transparency on the part of city agencies. But now YIMBY has obtained data showing that salaries are up to 177% higher for unionized employees of contractors performing public works projects and building service work for government agencies than the prevailing wages of their respective private industry counterparts.

Permits Filed: Market-Rate Housing at 627-629 Faile Street, Hunts Point

7:45 am on June 3, 2015 By Rebecca Baird-Remba

Hunts Point was once the byword for disinvestment and abandonment, but the peninsula along the South Bronx waterfront is finally beginning to see some new growth. One of the neighborhood’s empty lots, at 629 Faile Street, may soon sprout two new four-story apartment buildings.

Revealed: 88-92 Linden Boulevard, Flatbush

7:30 am on June 3, 2015 By Rebecca Baird-Remba

Brookland Capital is building more than 50 rental and condo projects throughout Brooklyn, and now they’re expanding south into Flatbush with this attractive seven-story apartment building at 88-92 Linden Boulevard, between Bedford and Rogers Avenues.

Permits Filed: Hotel at 100 New Jersey Avenue, Cypress Hills

7:00 am on June 3, 2015 By Rebecca Baird-Remba

The proposed East New York rezoning is already drawing new development to the area near Broadway Junction, like a new hotel planned at 100 New Jersey Avenue in the shadow of the elevated J train tracks in Cypress Hills, East New York’s northern section.

Revealed: Two-Building Residential Project At 436 & 442 East 13th Street, East Village

1:00 pm on June 2, 2015 By Reid Wilson

Renderings have been revealed of Amirian Group’s and Bridgeton Holding’s planned two-building residential development, dubbed Thirteen East + West, at 436 & 442 East 13th Street, in the East Village. At both sites, six-story, six-unit residential buildings were filed with the DOB last December, both measuring a spacious 10,000 square feet. Thomas Vail (of Vail Associates Architects) is designing. The existing two-story buildings were approved for demolition in April.

Landmarks Commission Calendars Designation Hearing On Stonewall Inn

11:00 am on June 2, 2015 By Evan Bindelglass

The Stonewall Inn, landmark of the LGBT movement, is a step closer to becoming an actual landmark. On Tuesday, the Landmarks Preservation Commission voted to schedule (or calendar, in LPC speak) a public hearing to designate the bar at 51-53 Christopher Street as an individual landmark. That hearing will take place on Tuesday, June 23.

Sales Update At 210 West 77th Street, Upper West Side

10:30 am on June 2, 2015 By Reid Wilson

YIMBY noted in April that Naftali Group’s 18-story, 25-unit luxury condo building Two Ten West 77, in the works on the Upper West Side at 210 West 77th Street, was nearly half-way sold out. Now, the building is 65% sold, with sales totaling nearly $110 million in under eight weeks. Thomas Juul-Hansen is designing, and completion is expected by the end of 2016.

New Views, Interiors, Possible Herzog and de Meuron Design for 1 Park Lane, aka 36 Central Park South

8:00 am on June 2, 2015 By Nikolai Fedak

Last week, YIMBY revealed the exteriors for 1 Park Lane, which has an actual address of 36 Central Park South, the site of the current Helmsley Park Lane. While we speculated that Vinoly designed the building, we learned that Handel Architects was in fact behind the renderings; we have also obtained a new set of images which include that version of the project’s interiors and views, which will be very impressive.

313 st marks avenue prospect heights rendering

Revealed: 730 Bergen Street and 313 St. Marks Avenue, Prospect Heights

7:00 am on June 2, 2015 By Rebecca Baird-Remba

YIMBY has new renderings for two very different buildings rising on one oddly shaped lot in Prospect Heights, a big 75-unit rental project at 313 St Marks Avenue and a four-story brick townhouse at 730 Bergen Street.

Revealed: 281 Fifth Avenue, 52-Story NoMad Condo Tower Designed by Viñoly

8:00 am on June 1, 2015 By Nikolai Fedak

Last December, YIMBY posted the first preliminary renderings for 281 Fifth Avenue, a 52-story condominium tower that will soon begin construction on the southeast corner of 30th Street and Fifth Avenue. Permits for the project were filed early last month, and now YIMBY has obtained the first actual rendering of the glassy building, which is being designed by Rafael Viñoly.

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