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Yisroel Greenfeld files plans for 20-unit resi in Williamsburg

Yisroel Greenfeld, on May 25, filed a permit application for construction of a 20-unit, 13,499-square-foot residential building at 104 Frost Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. There have been 48 new building plans, including these, filed in the neighborhood in the previous 12 months. The plans call for the construction of a 79-foot-tall, eight-story building and were filed with the New York City Department of Buildings under…

General Motors files plans for 13K sf car dealership in Astoria

General Motors, on May 25, filed a permit application for construction of a 13,796-square-foot commercial car dealership at 44-16 Northern Boulevard in Astoria, Queens. David Spencer filed the plans. There have been 33 new building plans, including these, filed in the neighborhood in the previous 12 months. The plans call for the construction of a 26-foot-tall, two-story building and were filed with the New York…

Sokol Beci files plans for 20-unit resi building in Belmont

Sokol Beci, on May 25, filed a permit application for construction of a 20-unit, 12,771-square-foot residential building at 2301 Beaumont Avenue in Belmont, Bronx. The plans call for the construction of a 40-foot-tall, four-story building and were filed with the New York City Department of Buildings under job number X00683304. The development site spans one tax lot. The lot has a width of 130 feet….

Alexandria Real Estate files plans for $15M project at LIC life-science building

Alexandria Real Estate Equities, on May 24, filed plans for a $15 million build-out of two floors of a life-science building at 30-02 48th Avenue in Long Island City, Queens. The building is commonly called the Bindery building. Alexandria purchased the 175,000-square-foot property for $75 million, at a value of $430 per square foot, on October 9, 2018. The plans call for work on floors…

City files plans for $5.8M project at East New York school

The New York City School Construction Authority, on May 25, filed plans for a $5.8 million project to install an elevator at a school building at 873 Jerome Street in East New York, Brooklyn. The plans call for the installation of an elevator in the 41-foot-tall, three-story building and were filed with the New York City Department of Buildings under job number B00740040. The project…

RiseBoro, Slate file plans for 215-unit mixed-use building in Brownsville

RiseBoro Community Partnership and Slate Property Group on May 23, filed a permit application for construction of a 215-unit, 156,356-square-foot residential building at 326 Rockaway Avenue in Brownsville. Emily Kurtz of RiseBoro filed the plans. According to the plans, the dwelling units will be NPISA units, meaning philanthropic or non-profit institution with sleeping accommodations. Last year it was reported that RiseBoro would be partnering with…

Chaim Schwartz files plans for 56-unit resi building, most units in Morris Heights in 12 months

Chaim Schwartz through Prime Property Management, on May 22, filed a permit application for construction of a 56-unit, 41,236-square-foot residential building at 1641 Undercliff Avenue in Morris Heights, the Bronx. Melvin Rivers owns the property after purchasing it for $235,000 on December 9, 2003, per city records. The plans call for the construction of the most dwelling units in the neighborhood in the previous 12…

Igor Vaysman files plans for 32-unit resi building in Midwood

Igor Vaysman through the company Mikerose Media LLC, on May 23, filed a permit application for construction of a 32-unit, 33,257-square-foot residential building at 2892 Nostrand Avenue in Midwood, Brooklyn. There have been 14 new building plans, including these, filed in the neighborhood in the previous 12 months. These plans call for the construction of the second most dwelling units in the neighborhood over that…

Franc Gjini files plans for 34-unit resi building in University Heights

Franc Gjini through the company 2625 Grand Avenue Corp., on May 23, filed a permit application for construction of a 34-unit, 20,716-square-foot residential building at 2621 Grand Avenue in University Heights, Bronx. There have been seven new building plans, including these, filed in the neighborhood in the previous 12 months. The plans call for the construction of a 40-foot-tall, four-story building and were filed with…

Sharone Ben Harosh files plans for 61K sf commercial logistics center in Mott Haven

Sharone Ben Harosh through the company 99 Evergreen LLC, on May 23, filed a permit application for construction of a 61,941-square-foot commercial logistics center at 181 Canal Street West in Mott Haven, Bronx. There have been 14 new building plans, including these, filed in the neighborhood in the previous 12 months. The plans call for the construction of a 60-foot-tall, three-story building and were filed…

Billing Express files plans for 24-unit resi building in Fordham Heights

Joel Friedman of Billing Express, on May 22, filed a permit application for construction of a 24-unit, 13,813-square-foot residential building at 2071 Ryer Avenue in Fordham Heights, the Bronx. There have been seven new building plans, including these, filed in the neighborhood in the previous 12 months. The plans call for the construction of a 70-foot-tall, seven-story building and were filed with the New York…

Liangdong Jin files plans for 15K sf retail building in Flushing

Liangdong Jin through the company Jin Sanford LLC, on May 23, filed a permit application for construction of a 15,123-square-foot retail building at 131-19 Sanford Avenue in Flushing, Queens. The developer purchased the property for $4.9 million from Brian Jenik on September 23, 2021. There have been 61 new building plans, including these, filed in the neighborhood in the previous 12 months. The plans call…

$13M multi-floor rehab filed at HNA Group’s 245 Park Ave.

The brokerage and building management firm Newmark, on May 23, filed plans for a $13 million rehab of two floors of office space at 245 Park Avenue in Grand Central, Manhattan. The building is owned by the Chinese conglomerate HNA Group. Last year, HNA Group placed the property in bankruptcy and attempted to pin the blame on SL Green Realty, the property manager at the…

Five alteration plans, 1,300 units: the largest residential alterations in the past year

By Atticus O’Brien-Pappalardo Over the previous year there have been several significant residential conversion and expansion projects filed around the city. There have been 33 projects filed which call for the addition of at least 20 residential units. Those 33 projects totaled to call for the addition of 2,322 dwelling units. PincusCo looked at the “ALT-CO – New Building with Existing Elements to Remain” and…

Friedland Properties reveals development plans in Yorkville

Friedland Properties filed an application requesting a zoning map change for a portion of East 94th Street between Second and Third Avenues from an M1-4 district to a C4-6 district in order to construct a new residential development at the site in Yorkville. The developer is also seeking to move the C2-8 boundary 25′ east, and to map a mandatory inclusionary housing (MIH) area. The…

City files plans for $3.2M project at Zero Irving in Union Square

New York Economic Development Corporation, on May 20, filed plans for a $3.2 million project relating to interior renovations at 124 East 14th Street just east of Union Square, Manhattan. The building, which is called Zero Irving, was developed by RAL Development and topped out in 2020. Below are renderings of the building from Davis Brody Bond. The plans call for a rehab of the…

Flushing project with 389 units revealed in new rezoning application

George Drallios, of the development firm Chaon, through the entity Northern 147-149 LLC filed an application seeking zoning map amendments and zoning text amendments to facilitate the construction of two new 11-story mixed-use buildings with a total of 334,247 square feet of space and 389 dwelling units at 147-14 Northern Boulevard in Flushing, Queens. The developer is seeking a zoning map amendment from R5/C1-2 to…

Azimuth Development files plans for 65-unit mixed-use building in Unionport

Guido Subotovsky’s Azimuth Development Group, on May 17, filed a permit application for construction of a 65-unit, 94,542-square-foot mixed-use building at 2070 Chatterton Avenue in Unionport, the Bronx. The building will have 12,747-square-feet of commercial space. These are the seventh new building plans filed in the neighborhood in the previous 12 months. Of the seven plans, these plans call for the construction of the most…

Chesky Landau files plans to convert industrial building to 22-unit resi building in Williamsburg

Chesky Landau of LC Management, on May 16, filed plans for a project to convert a one-story industrial building to a 22-unit residential building at 303 Wythe Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The project will increase the size of the building from 7,500 square feet to 30,146 square feet. The estimated job cost is currently listed as $4.5 million The plans call for the change in…

ABCNY Inc. files plans for 56-unit mixed-use building in Morris Heights

Moris Yeroshalmi of ABCNY Inc., on May 16, filed a permit application for construction of a 56-unit, 41,759-square-foot mixed-use building at 1985 Jerome Avenue in Morris Heights, the Bronx. These are the third new building plans filed in the neighborhood in the previous 12 months. Of the three plans, these plans call for the construction of the most dwelling units. The plans call for the…