The current round of the 57th Street boom is making rapid progress, and construction work at 220 Central Park South in particular is moving quickly. Despite all the momentum, slight uncertainty has surrounded the building’s final design, but YIMBY now has a fresh rendering confirming the skyscraper’s ultimate appearance.
Much of the Upper West Side is frozen in time by historic districts, but every once in a while, a developer manages to snag an older property in a non-landmarked piece of the neighborhood. New building applications were filed earlier today to erect a 10-story building at 206 West 95th Street, half a block from the 96th Street station on the 1, 2 and 3 lines.
Applications have been filed for three three-story residential buildings spanning the lots 77-06 – 77-10 45th Avenue, in northern Elmhurst, five blocks west of the M/R subway station at Elmhurst Avenue. The residential development will contain six units and measure 4,975 square feet in total for an average units of 830 square feet. Chang Hwa Tan is the architect of record, and two existing residential structures must first be demolished.
Urban View Realty has filed applications for a five-story, five-unit residential building at 129 Stockholm Street, in norther Bushwick, two blocks from the M train’s Central Avenue stop. The building will measure 5,000 square feet and will feature a fifth floor penthouse, with units averaging 1,000 square feet. Woody Chen’s Infocus Design & Planning is the applicant of record, and an existing 1.5-story home must first be demolished.
In October 2014, YIMBY reported on permits filed for a 16-story, 16-unit condominium building at 10 West 17th Street, in the Flatiron District, and then the LPC approved the plans the following December. Now Bhatia Development and Sherwood Equities have landed $48 million in financing from CIT, according to Commercial Observer. An existing three-story building must first be demolished, but construction is expected to begun early in 2016 for a mid-2017 completion. Beyer Blinder Belle is designing.
