North of the Bronx, the city of Mount Vernon is in many ways more similar to New York City than to anything else in Westchester County, with its dense housing stock and diverse population of African-Americans, West…
In 2009, the Broadway Triangle – formerly industrial land bounded by Flushing, Union, and Broadway, – was rezoned, somewhat controversially, for residential development catering to ultra-Orthodox Jewish condo buyers from nearby South Williamsburg. A few years later, a smaller…
Brooklyn’s first true wave of skyscraper development is now kicking into high gear, and progress is evident across the borough’s downtown. Towers are rising at CityPoint, the Avalon Willoughby is quickly ascending towards its 600-foot…
BROOKLYN: 583 Franklin Avenue: An LLC has filed applications for a four-story, four-unit residential building of 4,000 square feet at the vacant lot of 583 Franklin Avenue, in northwestern Crown Heights; Eric Safyan is designing. QUEENS: 57-30 Hoffman…
Back in late October, YIMBY reported that permits were filed for 20 townhouses on King and Sullivan streets, totaling more than 50,000 square feet of residential space on a large through-block site in the Red Hook…
