The affordable housing lottery has launched for 200 Montague Street, a 20-story residential building in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn. Designed by Beyer Blinder Belle and developed by Aurora Capital Partners, the structure yields 121 residences. Available on NYC Housing Connect are 38 units for residents at 80 to 130 percent of the area median income (AMI), ranging in eligible income from $54,960 to $215,1500.
Permits have been filed for a six-story mixed-use building at 67-17 Roosevelt Avenue in Woodside, Queens. Located between 39th Avenue and 69th Street, the interior lot is a short walk to the 69 Street-Fisk Avenue subway station, serviced by the 7 train. Joseph Yahudaii of Neda Development Inc. is listed as the owner behind the applications.
A infrastructure project more than a half century in the making has finally reached the finish line with last week’s official opening of the Grand Central Madison station, the centerpiece of the $11.1 billion East Side Access plan to bring Long Island Rail Road service to Grand Central Terminal in Midtown East. Multiple companies designed, engineered, and collaborated on the project and include AECOM and Jacobs as project managers; WSP as a managing partner of a three-firm joint venture that includes STV and Parsons; Tutor Perini Corporation; Dragados; Judlau Contracting; Skanska; Michels; Comstock; Halmar International; Schiavone; Piccone; Five Star; Yonkers Electric; Tully Environmental; and EJ Electric. The new terminal sits 150 feet below the existing Grand Central facility, along Vanderbilt Avenue between East 43rd and East 48th Streets. The first ceremonial train ran from the Jamaica station in Queens and arrived at the Grand Central Madison station on January 25 at 11:07 a.m.
Proposals to redevelop and expand the historic Neumann Lathers Industrial Warehouse at 300 Observer Highway in Hoboken, New Jersey, are again under review by local officials. Initial plans to redevelop the property into a mixed-use commercial hub date back to 2015, but have failed to gain approval from the city and support from community leaders.
Permits have been filed for a 22-story mixed-use building at 370 Livingston Street in Downtown Brooklyn. Located at the southwest corner of Livingston Street and Flatbush Avenue, the lot is one block south of the Nevins Street subway station, serviced by the 2, 3, 4, and 5 trains. Yitzchok Katz of Developing NY State is listed as the owner behind the applications, and is also responsible for 362 Livingston Street, the adjacent 15-story residential building.
