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DDG’s Gaudi-Inspired 180 East 88th Street Gets Its Curtain Wall on The Upper East Side

8:00 am on March 19, 2019 By Michael Young

The exterior curtain wall at 180 East 88th Street is making substantial progress as it swiftly encloses the 31-story reinforced concrete structure. The tower is now the tallest skyscraper on the Upper East Side above 72nd Street, with design by DDG. HTO Architects is serving as the architect of record, and Petersen Tegl, a Denmark-based firm, is in charge of the Kolumba masonry brick facade. The property will yield around 130,000 square feet of residential space when complete, averaging over 2,700 square feet per unit. There will be 52,000 square feet of communal facilities on the lower floors, and the remaining 1,100 square feet will be dedicated to commercial use.

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Permits Filed For Nine-Story Building at 466 Flushing Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn

6:30 am on March 17, 2019 By Michael Young

Permits were recently filed for a new nine-story mixed-use residential building at 466 Flushing Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Fariba Makooi of Fischer+Makooi Architects PLCC is the designer of the project, while Bac Group LTD is listed as the filing representative. The W Group of Brooklyn is listed as the owner of the property. The site sits on an 18,000-square-foot corner lot along the border of Williamsburg and Bedford-Stuyvesant. The closest subway is the G train at the Flushing Avenue subway station. The Brooklyn Queens Expressway (I-278) runs several blocks away to the west, providing easy access to the northbound and southbound lanes.

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Permits Filed for Mixed-Use Commercial Building at 23-20 Jackson Avenue in Long Island City, Queens

7:00 am on March 16, 2019 By Michael Young

Permits have been filed for a nine-story, mixed-use commercial building at 23-20 Jackson Avenue in Long Island City, Queens. The new structure will dedicate 65,000 square feet of newly built space toward residential units, a hotel, and dormitory spaces. The entire building itself is set to yield 82,851 square feet. It will be designed by KSQ Architects. William Dailey Building & Zoning is listed as the filing representative while the Vorea Group is owner of the property. The site is located at the corner of Jackson Avenue and Pearson Street and sits not too far from the Court Square subway station on the 7 train.

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Permits Filed for 1460 Flatbush Avenue in Flatbush Ditmas Park, Brooklyn

6:30 am on March 16, 2019 By Michael Young

Permits were recently filed for a new seven-story mixed-use building at 1460 Flatbush Avenue in Flatbush Ditmas Park, Brooklyn. Neil Myers of JFrankl Associates is listed as the applicant of record while Expediting 4U is listed as the filing representative. Guy Iber of Threefold is listed as the owner of the property. The site is located north of the Flatbush Avenue subway station that serves the 2 train, while the B and Q train can be found to the west at the Newkirk Plaza and Avenue H subway station.

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Hudson Yards’ Shops, Restaurants, and Thomas Heatherwick’s Iconic Sculpture Officially Open To The Public

8:00 am on March 15, 2019 By Michael Young

At noon today, New York’s newest neighborhood will ceremonially open for business. Hudson Yards‘ first public-facing attractions—the Shops & Restaurants and Thomas Heatherwick’s interactive sculpture Vessel—will welcome the crowds that have watched patiently from afar as the project’s soaring, glass-sheathed towers have transformed the skyline. Elkus Manfredi Architects is the designer of the seven-story retail center, of which Neiman Marcus is the anchor tenant. The city’s largest indoor shopping mall with more than 100 stores, it features 720,000 leasable square feet with nearly 85 percent of the space already occupied.

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