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42-50 27th Street

Foundation Work Underway at Nine-Story, 32-Unit Residential Project, 42-50 27th Street, Long Island City

1:00 pm on June 14, 2016 By Reid Wilson

In January, YIMBY revealed renderings of the nine-story, 32-unit residential building planned at 42-50 27th Street, in the heart of Long Island City. At the time, we knew the site was cleared of its low-rise predecessors. Foundation work is now well underway, according to the Court Square Blog. The structure will encompass 35,294 square feet, and its residential units should average 777 square feet apiece, indicative of rental apartments. Amenities include private residential storage, a seven-car garage on the ground floor, storage space for 18 bikes, and a outdoor recreational area on the second floor. New York-based Ampiera Group is the developer, while Flushing-based MY Architect is behind the design. Completion is expected in late 2017.

3205 Broadway

Foundation Work Begins on Columbia University’s Three-Story University Forum and Academic Conference Center, 3205 Broadway, Harlem

11:00 am on June 14, 2016 By Reid Wilson

Back in March, a rendering was revealed of Columbia University’s three-story, 55,980-square-foot University Forum and Academic Conference Center at 3205 Broadway, located on a triangular block bound by West 125th and 129th streets and Broadway, in the Manhattanville section of Harlem. At the time, excavation work was underway at the site, but now foundation work has commenced, Harlem+Bespoke reports. The structure will feature a café, an information center, offices and meeting rooms, and two auditoriums. The building is the part of the Columbia’s greater Manhattanville campus, which, when fully built out, will span 17 acres and roughly a dozen buildings. Renzo Piano Building Workshop is the design architect and Dattner Architects is the architect of record. Completion is expected in 2018.

117 West 21st Street

New Details, Renderings for 12-Story, Nine-Unit Condominium Project at 117 West 21st Street, Chelsea

10:00 am on June 14, 2016 By Reid Wilson

In March of 2015, the Amirian Group acquired, for $28.5 million, the vacant four-story commercial building at 117 West 21st Street, in Chelsea, with plans to redevelop the property into a 12-story, nine-unit residential building. Now, new details and renderings of the project, being dubbed The Twenty 1, have been revealed in a Curbed NY report. The existing structure is being expanded by eight stories to accommodate 32,541 square feet of residential space. The apartments, which will be condominiums, should average a spacious 3,616 square feet apiece. There will be six full-floor units, two duplex penthouses, and one townhouse. Amenities include private residential storage, a five-car parking garage, and a rooftop terrace. GRADE Architecture is designing the building and is serving as the architect of record.

New York Wheel

Foundation Work Underway on Base of New York Wheel, 155 Richmond Terrace, St. George

6:00 am on June 14, 2016 By Reid Wilson

Back in November of 2015, the city approved design changes to the 630-foot-tall New York Wheel project at 155 Richmond Terrace, in St. George, Staten Island. At the time, construction was underway on the project’s four-level accessory commercial building. That commercial structure has since topped out and foundation work is now underway on the base of the Ferris wheel itself. The topped-out commercial structure encompasses 418,901 square feet, and features a 950-car parking garage, exhibition/gallery spaces, ticketing offices/security screening, a bike rental facility, a food hall, and commercial-retail space. The roof will also include a playground, a gallery, a restaurant, a performance stage, and landscaped recreational space. A large part of the building is expected to open this summer, with the entire project scheduled for completion in in 2017. Starneth B.V. is constructing the New York Wheel. S9 Architecture, with Navid Maqami as design principal in charge, and Perkins Eastman, with Jonathan Cohn as project manager, are behind the design.

2926 Brighton 5th Street

Four-Story, Two-Family Residential Building Planned at 2926 Brighton 5th Street, Brighton Beach

4:00 pm on June 13, 2016 By Reid Wilson

Brooklyn-based property owner Arthur Oganov, doing business as High Dynamic Construction Inc., has filed applications for a four-story, two-unit residential building at 2926 Brighton 5th Street, in Brighton Beach, located two blocks from the Brighton Beach stop on the B and Q trains. The structure will measure 4,536 square feet and the apartments should average 1,717.5 square feet apiece. One apartment will be located on the second floor and part of the third, while the other will take up the remainder of the third and the fourth. They will be topped by a roof terrace, which will be exclusive to the upper unit. The ground floor will contain a two-car garage. Sergey Mozer’s Brooklyn-based Mozer Architect Design is the architect of record. Demolition permits have been filed to raze the 1,600-square-foot site’s single-story house.

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