Residential

490 Lorimer Street

Five-Story, Nine-Unit Residential Building Coming To 490 Lorimer Street, Williamsburg

Han Soon Yom, doing business as a Fort Lee, N.J.-based LLC, has filed applications for a five-story, nine-unit residential building at 490 Lorimer Street, in central Williamsburg, located four blocks south of the Lorimer Street stop on the L train. The project will measure 7,964 square feet in total, which means units will average 885 square feet apiece. The building will have storage space available to tenants in the cellar, as well as an outdoor common area on the roof. Anthony Morena’s MORTAR Arch + Dev is the architect of record. Demolition permits were filed in December to remove the existing three-story brick building.

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4545 18th Avenue

Six Three-Family Residential Buildings Planned At 4515 18th Avenue, Borough Park

Shimon Lichtenstein, doing business as a Brooklyn-based LLC, has filed applications to build four, three-family residential buildings at 4545 18th Avenue, on the edge of Borough Park. Each of the buildings will measure 4,587 square feet, and full-floor units will average a specious 1,529 square feet apiece. Queens-based Grigori Zinkevitch is the architect of record. The site must first be subdivided into four 22-foot-wide tax lots, and an existing single-story auto-shop will have to be demolished. Future residents will be conveniently located around the corner from the 18th Avenue stop on the F train.

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Second floor roof garden at 711 West End Avenue, rendering via P2B Ventures

Developer of 711 West End Avenue Promises New Amenities for Rent-Stabilized Tenants

When two developers decided to build 10 stories of condos on top of an occupied, rent-stabilized apartment building at 711 West End Avenue on the Upper West Side, tenants were predictably upset. To appease the renters, many of whom have lived there for decades, the landlords plan to renovate and add new amenities to the seven-story brick building between 94th and 95th Streets.

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530 Exterior Street, rendering by Dattner Architects

Revealed: 530 Exterior Street and 491 Gerard Avenue, Mott Haven

The South Bronx is suddenly booming with construction, and YIMBY has renderings for one of the biggest projects underway in Mott Haven, near the banks of the Harlem River. The unique multi-building development will include two affordable rental buildings and a Hampton Inn, on a block next to the Major Deegan Expressway and the 145th Street Bridge to Harlem.

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