Residential

68-74 Trinity Place

Demolition Making Rapid Progress at 68-74 Trinity Place, Financial District

The Financial District’s rapid transformation from an office to a residential neighborhood has been immensely beneficial to Lower Manhattan, and the area’s recent boom has been mostly free of architectural casualties. But that’s about to change thanks to demolition beginning on the old vestry at 68-74 Trinity Place, which will soon be removed to make way for a new Pelli Clarke Pelli-designed mixed-use building standing almost 500 feet tall.

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2626-2634 Miles Avenue, image via Google Maps2626-2634 Miles Avenue, image via Google Maps

Permits Filed: 2626-2634 Miles Avenue, Throgs Neck Townhouses in the Bronx

Much like City Island, Throgs Neck and its traditionally middle class Irish and Italian community resisted the abandonment and disinvestment that swept across the Bronx in the ’70s and ’80s. And even as property values have risen in the southeastern Bronx neighborhood, a 2004 rezoning has stunted most new construction. But one developer has found a way to make the restrictive zoning work for him and filed plans for five new townhouses at 2626-2634 Miles Avenue.

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558 West 161st Street

Five-Story, Seven-Unit Residential Building Filed At 558 West 161st Street, Washington Heights

Chet Simunovich’s Eastern Allied Construction Co. has filed applications for a five-story, seven-unit residential building on the 16-foot-wide vacant lot at 558 West 161st Street, in southern Washington Heights. The building will measure 5,462 square feet in total, which works out to units averaging 780 square feet. Gerald Caliendo is the architect of record, and the NYC HDP demolished the property’s three-story predecessor in 2013.


481 Monroe Street

Five-Story, Five-Unit Residential Building Coming To 481 Monroe Street, Bed-Stuy

Queens-based Cornerstone Dvi LLC has filed applications for a five-story, five-unit residential building at 481 Monroe Street, in central Bedford-Stuyvesant. The building will measure 4,885 square feet, which works out to units averaging 977 square feet, and could either be rentals or condos. Woody Chen’s InFocus Design & Planning is the applicant of record, and an existing two-story townhouse must first be demolished.


42-34 Forley Street

Three Stories, Nine Residential Units Planned At 42-34 Forley Street, Elmhurst

Flushing-based Sheng Hui Realty has filed applications for three identical three-story residential buildings spanning the lots 42-34 – 42-38 Forley Street, in northern Elmhurst, five blocks from the 90th Street stop on the 7 train. The development will contain nine residential units — three in each building — across a total 9,245 square feet of residential space. Chang Hwa Tan is the architect of record, and two existing single-family homes were filed for demolition this past May.


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