30-Story Medical Office Tower Continues Ascent at 1522 First Avenue On Manhattan’s Upper East Side

8:00 am on December 6, 2023 By Michael Young and Matt Pruznick

The 26th-tallest building on our annual year-end construction countdown is 1522 First Avenue, a 30-story medical office building rising in the Yorkville section of Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Designed by Perkins Eastman and developed by Extell Development Company, the 449-foot-tall structure will yield 400,000 square feet of Class A office space and retail space on the ground floor and cellar levels. The Hospital for Special Surgery will serve as the anchor tenant, occupying 200,000 square feet across the first eight stories of the building. Ancora Engineering is the engineer of record and Lendlease is the general contractor for the project, which is alternately addressed as 403 East 79th Street and located between East 79th and 80th Streets.

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Photo of 195 Broadway by Alan Schindler

Payoneer to Relocate Headquarters to 195 Broadway in Financial District, Manhattan

7:30 am on December 6, 2023 By Max Gillespie

Financial technology firm Payoneer has finalized a ten-year lease agreement to move its headquarters to 195 Broadway in Manhattan’s Financial District. The company will occupy a 42,000-square-foot space spanning the entire 27th floor of the historic 29-story Neoclassical building starting in spring of 2024. This relocation marks one of the more significant office relocations from Midtown to Lower Manhattan this year.

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Housing Lottery Launches for 318-322 East 32nd Street in East Flatbush, Brooklyn

6:30 am on December 6, 2023 By Vanessa Londono

The affordable housing lottery has launched for 318-322 East 32nd Street, a four-story residential building in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. Designed by Sander Williams Architect, the structure yields six residences. Available on NYC Housing Connect are four units for residents at 130 percent of the area median income (AMI), ranging in eligible income from $68,400 to $227,630.

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Foundations Progress For Two-Tower Development at 1 Java Street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn

8:00 am on December 5, 2023 By Michael Young and Matt Pruznick

At number 27 on our annual construction countdown is 1 Java Street, a two-tower residential development along the East River in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Designed by Marvel Architects and developed and built by Lendlease, which secured a $360 million construction loan at the end of 2022, the project will yield 834 rental units across the two structures, the taller of which will stand 37 stories and 402 feet tall. Aware Super is the joint developer, INC Architecture & Design is the interior designer for the public areas, and Crème is the interior designer for the townhouse units at the complex, which is alternately addressed as 18 India Street and occupies a full block bound by India Street to the north, Java Street to the south, West Street to the east, and the India Street pier over the East River to the west.

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