On Tuesday, the Landmarks Preservation Commission approved the design of a new four-story, single-family home to be constructed at 108 West 123rd Street in Manhattan. That’s on the south side of the block between Lenox Avenue and Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard.
A rendering has been posted on the site of the planned six-story, six-unit residential building under development at 11 West 126th Street, in Harlem. Foundation work is underway, according to Harlem+Bespoke. The structure will encompass 11,061 square feet and the project’s full-floor residential units should average 1,320 square feet apiece, indicative of condominiums. Amenities include private residential storage and a fitness center. The sixth floor apartment will also feature a private roof terrace. Midtown East-based Urban Artisan is the developer, while Midtown South-based Platt Byard Dovell White Architects (PBDW Architects) is behind the design. YIMBY first brought you news of the project when applications were filed in September of 2014. Completion is expected in spring of 2017.
A Citibank on a tony stretch of Madison Avenue on the Upper East Side is going to grow six stories and get a handful of apartments. Alteration plans were filed earlier this week to expand the two-story commercial building at 1042 Madison Avenue, between 79th and 80th streets.
Meatpacking District-based Saab Management Company has filed applications for a new two-story, 22,347-square-foot commercial-retail building at 114 West 125th Street, in Harlem. The structure will feature retail space on both floors, with tenant storage space located in the cellar level. Adrian R. Figueroa’s Hudson Square-based SRA Architecture + Engineering is the architect of record. The project would rise on a 30-foot-wide, 3,000-square-foot plot currently occupied by a dilapidated retail structure, most recently leased to Olympic Town. Demolition permits were filed in February. The site is adjacent to the newly completed six-story retail complex at 100 West 125th Street.
The lower blocks of the Upper West Side have given rise to a sprinkling of skyscrapers in recent years, from the Fordham redevelopment to 200 West 67th Street. And now, YIMBY has the reveal for 200 Amsterdam Avenue, which will rise 666 feet to its roof, becoming the tallest building on the Upper West Side.
