The last year has been somewhat tumultuous for 319 Schermerhorn Street, which was originally set to be developed a mysterious “SC Nevins LLC.” In April, it was announced that Adam America and the Naveh Shuster Group purchased the site, likely for over $30 million, and with the new ownership comes a new design, which YIMBY can now reveal thanks to a watchful tipster.
The developer behind an eight-story apartment building at 21-42nd Road near Queensboro Plaza in Long Island City has posted new renderings for the project, which YIMBY first revealed a year ago.
In December, YIMBY revealed plans and possible renderings for a 51-story tower at 281 Fifth Avenue, and now permits have been filed for the high-rise condo development at the corner of 30th Street.
Arturo Muroz, the property owner of the vacant lot at 129 Taaffe Place, in northwestern Bedford-Stuyvesant, has filed applications for a four-story, eight-unit residential building measuring nearly 8,000 square feet. Moshe M. Friedman is the architect of record, and the site’s former two-story building was demolished in 2003.
Building attractive affordable housing on a limited budget is an issue developers and designers throughout the city wrestle with on a daily basis. So YIMBY talked to a few architects behind innovative affordable and supportive projects about what works—materials, layouts, green features—and how proposed zoning changes might shape new buildings.
