The construction of brownstones and other handsome pre-war townhouses in the outer boroughs ended with World War II, but the development of similar single- and two-family homes in more modern styles did not. More austere red brick homes…
Last February, YIMBY posted the first renderings of a new through-block development site spanning from 546 West 44th Street to 535 West 43rd Street. The images came from the site’s remedial action plan, but now, we have…
Back in November 2012, plans were announced to redevelop the former Our Lady of Lourdes convent in Bushwick into a mixed affordable/supportive housing project. Now, more than two years later, the plan is moving one…
Last month, Slate Property Group caused an uproar when they announced their plans to buy the Key Food site at 325 Lafayette Avenue in Clinton Hill, near the Pratt Towers Mitchell-Lama co-op complex, and raze…
In New York City, as everyone knows, there are mostly two kinds of new construction: luxury market-rate development, and subsidized “affordable housing.” But near the end of the 2 train in the Bronx, on the…
