Hudson Companies has filed plans for the two affordable pieces of its controversial redevelopment of the Brooklyn Heights Library, at 1043 Fulton Street and 907 Atlantic Avenue in Clinton Hill.
SI Northshore Enterprises has filed applications for two two-story, single-family homes on the block-through lot at 226-228 Gansevoort Boulevard, in Manor Heights, located centrally on Staten Island. The entire development will measure 3,927 square feet, which means each home will average 1,963 square feet. Staten Island-based Calvanico Associates is the architect of record, and an existing single-family home must first be demolished.
Rego Park-based Borough Realty Holdings has filed applications for a single-story, 11,422 square-foot commercial development at 3917-3919 Baychester Avenue and 1217-1223 East 233rd Street, in the North Bronx neighborhood of Edenwald. The project is being broken up into six small buildings, and though the type of commercial space is not specified in filings, retail or offices are likely. Iljoong Kim’s Flushing-based Choi Design is the applicant of record, and permits were filed last February to remove an existing gas station on the site.
The bustling blocks of the mid to upper-40s are a bit of an urban oddity, existing within the low-rise confines of Hell’s Kitchen, but abutting the skyscraper canyons of Midtown. And while most of the area is already built-out, a few opportunities for infill both large and small still exist, like at 343 West 47th Street, where an existing structure from 1920 is now being renovated and expanded.
The struggling central Bronx neighborhoods of Mount Hope, Tremont, and West Farms are ripe for new construction, and the borough’s small developers are finally starting to take notice. One developer hopes to build a little four-story residential building at 1779 Weeks Avenue, just north of the Cross Bronx Expressway in Mount Hope.
