141 North 6th Street Progresses in Williamsburg, Brooklyn

7:30 am on October 31, 2023 By Michael Young and Matt Pruznick

Construction is progressing on 141 North 6th Street, a five-story mixed-use building in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The structure will yield 12 residential units, a cellar level, and 3,827 square feet of ground-floor retail space with 40 feet of frontage and 20-foot ceiling heights. North 6th 141 LLC is the owner, Olmstead Real Estate is in change of retail leasing, and G. Lebedowitz Corp. is the general contractor for the property, which is located on an interior lot between Bedford Avenue and Berry Street.

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YIMBY Tours The Wales At 1295 Madison Avenue on Manhattan’s Upper East Side

8:00 am on October 30, 2023 By Michael Young and Matt Pruznick

YIMBY toured The Wales, a newly converted 11-story condominium building at 1295 Madison Avenue in the Carnegie Hill section of Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Developed and owned by Adellco, which purchased the site from LJ Real Estate Capital Partners in 2018 for $56.3 million, along with Parisian design studio PINTO, the historic building features a collection of 21 condominium units and accompanying amenity spaces. Form4 Design Studio and Higgins Quasebarth designed the renovations and upper two-story expansion, and Press Builders served as the general contractor for the property, which was formerly known as Hotel Wales and stands at the corner of Madison Avenue and East 92nd Street. Condominium closings commenced back in March with residences priced from $3.59 million to $21.5 million for the penthouse.

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38-27 32nd Street’s Exterior Progresses in Long Island City, Queens

7:30 am on October 30, 2023 By Michael Young and Matt Pruznick

Exterior work is progressing on 38-27 32nd Street, a ten-story residential building in Long Island City, Queens. Designed by NY Building Associates and developed and built by Yitzchok Katz of Developing NY State under the 39th Ave Equity LLC, the 100-foot-tall structure is being built in tandem with 38-38 32nd Street, a nine-story building next door, and will yield 52 rental units spanning 48,000 square feet and 33 enclosed parking spaces. The site was once home to the Cyril Weinberg Day Habilitation Center, a two-story adult day care center for those with developmental disabilities, and is bound by 33rd Street to the east, 39th Avenue to the south, and 32nd Street to the west.

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