The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission is reviewing a proposal for renovations to 57-59 Christopher Street in Manhattan’s West Village. Designed and assembled by EDG, the proposal is an application to remedy fire damage to the adjoining buildings’ roofs, while adding height to each building’s top floor.
The affordable housing lottery has launched for 763 Park Avenue, a four-story residential building in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Designed by S. Wieder Architect and developed by Joel Jakobowitz, the structure yields eight residences. Available on NYC Housing Connect are three units for residents at 130 percent of the area median income (AMI), ranging in eligible income from $127,989 to $198,250.
Construction has reached the roof parapet of 262 Fifth Avenue, a 56-story residential skyscraper in NoMad, Manhattan. Designed by Meganom with SLCE Architects as the executive architect and developed by Boris Kuzinez of Five Points Development under the Five Points 262 Project LLC, the 860-foot-tall structure will yield 26 condominium units with an average scope of 3,200 square feet, including at least one quadruplex unit. GEA Consulting Engineers is the MEP engineer and CM & Associates Construction Management is the general contractor for the project, which rises from a 5,000-square-foot plot at the southwest corner of Fifth Avenue and West 29th Street.
Façade installation is wrapping up on 125 Barclay Street, an 11-story commercial building in Tribeca, Manhattan. Designed by Switzer Group and developed by District Council 37 (DC37), the project involves the renovation and re-cladding of the 92-year-old former World Telegram Building and the construction of an additional floor above its parapet, and will yield 264,700 square feet of office space. Lilker Associates is the MEP and FP engineer and Hunter Roberts Construction Group is the general contractor for the property, which is bound by Murray Street to the north, Barclay Street to the south, and West Street to the west.
New Jersey-based real estate investment firm BDP Holdings, in partnership with JLL, has unveiled plans for The Iris, a forthcoming commercial building at 641 Bloomfield Avenue in Montclair, New Jersey. Designed by Gensler, the 130,000-square-foot structure will yield 125,000 square feet of office space on the top three floors, along with 8,051 square feet of ground-floor retail space and 277 parking spaces.
