Permits have been filed for a five-story residential building at 228 13th Street in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Located between Fourth and Fifth Avenues, the lot is a short walk to the 4th Avenue-9th Street subway station, serviced by the F, G, and R trains. Robert Saffayeh under 205 14th Street LLC is listed as the owner behind the applications.
Permits have been filed for a seven-story mixed-use building at 11-36 45th Road in Long Island City, Queens. Located between 11th Street and 21st Street, the lot is one block from the Court Square subway station, serviced by the 7 and G trains. George Jiapeng Xu of Century Development Group is listed as the owner behind the applications.
After leasing launched last month for LYRA, Rockrose‘s newest rental building in Hudson Yards is now 30 percent leased. Designed by Pelli Clarke & Partners with SLCE Architects and interiors by MdeAS Architects, the 590-unit development at 555 West 38th Street is filling up at record speeds. Residences range from studios to two-bedroom units with rents ranging from high $3000s to high $8000s.
Construction has broken ground on Baez Place, a 154-unit affordable housing development at 334 East 176th Street in Claremont, The Bronx. Designed by ESKW Architects and developed by Community Access, the structure will comprise 105 studios, 21 one-bedrooms, 22 two-bedrooms, and six three-bedroom apartments. A total of 154 homes will be reserved for households at 30 to 80 percent area median income (AMI). The remaining 86 units will be available to the formerly homeless, who will also have access to on-site support services rendered by Community Access. Each apartment will come equipped with free broadband internet access.
Construction is rising on 33 Franklin Street, a seven-story residential building in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Designed by StudiosC and developed by Yidel Hirsch under the Franklin 33 LLC, the 80-foot-tall structure will yield 95,000 square feet with 80 units, with a portion dedicated to affordable housing, as well as ground-floor retail space and parking for 32 vehicles. The property is alternately addressed as 82 Calyer Street and is bound by Calyer Street to the north, Quay Street to the south, and Franklin Street to the east.
