The DUMBO Improvement District and the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership have unveiled a new public sculpture honoring late musician Christopher Wallace, more commonly known as The Notorious B.I.G. From artist Sherwin Banfield, the new sculpture is titled Sky’s the Limit in the County of Kings and sits on the northeast corner of Prospect and Washington Streets near the entrance of the Brooklyn Bridge in DUMBO.
Permits have been filed for an 11-story commercial building at 2554 East 16th Street in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. Located between Avenue Z and Avenue Y, the lot is a short walk to the Sheepshead Bay subway station, serviced by the B and Q trains.
The 15th-tallest building on our year-end countdown is One Journal Square, a two-tower residential and retail complex at 10 Journal Square Plaza in the Journal Square section of Jersey City, New Jersey. Designed by Woods Bagot and developed by Kushner Real Estate Group, the $1 billion project comprises two 64-story, 710-foot-tall skyscrapers with 1,723 units above a shared podium with 40,000 square feet of retail space and an enclosed parking garage. The development will also include a public plaza. ADJ Construction is the general contractor for the property, which is located directly next to the Journal Square PATH Station and bound by Sip Avenue to the south and Bergen Avenue to the west.
Kasa Living has opened its latest apartment-style hotel property at 120 Allen Street on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Known as Kasa Lantern LES, the ten-story building comprises 20 short-stay rooms styled as condominium homes.
Permits have been filed for an 11-story mixed-use building with affordable housing at 3041 Webster Avenue in Norwood, The Bronx. Located between East 204th Street and East Mosholu Parkway North, the lot is near the Norwood-205th Street subway station, serviced by the D train. Peter Fine is listed as the owner behind the applications.
