Joel Green, on January 21, filed a permit application for construction of a 21-unit, 12,592-square-foot residential building at 1567 Wilkins Avenue in East Morrisania, the Bronx. The filing representative filed the plans using an email connected to Rock Builders NY. The plans are one of 10 new building plans filed in the neighborhood in the previous 10 months. The plans call for the construction of…
New York University, on January 21, filed plans for a $36 million rehabilitation of a dorm building at 35 Fifth Avenue in Greenwich Village, Manhattan. The building, which is known as the Samuel Rubin Residence Hall of New York University, was formerly the Hotel Grosvenor. The building is named after prominent philanthropist Samuel Rubin, a member of NYU’s Medical Center Board. The plans call for…
The Kitchen, on January 21, filed plans for a $14.3 million vertical expansion of its art institution at 512 West 19th Street in Chelsea, Manhattan. The project will add assembly spaces to the building. The Kitchen, one of New York City’s oldest nonprofit spaces, was founded as an artist collective in 1971 by Woody and Steina Vasulka and incorporated as a nonprofit two years later,…
The New York City School Construction Authority, on January 19, filed plans for a $10.5 million project to modify a school building to be ADA complaint at 508 East 120th Street in East Harlem, Manhattan. The plans call for work on all four floors of the 50-foot-tall, four-story building and were filed with the New York City Department of Buildings under job number M00662616. The…
Louis Handler, on January 19, filed a permit application for construction of a 145-unit, 105,666-square-foot residential building at 60 Cedar Street in Bushwick, Brooklyn. The plans are one of 19 new building plans filed in Bushwick in the previous 12 months. The 19 plans combined call for the construction of 308 dwelling units in the neighborhood. The plan calls for the construction of a 183-foot-tall,…
Werber Management and the Reform Temple of Forest Hills submitted rezoning plans to facilitate the development of a 126,000-square-foot mixed-use building with 153 residential dwelling units at 71-11 112th Street in Forest Hills, Queens. The applicant seeks a Zoning Map amendment to change an R1-2A zoning district to an R7D zoning district and a Zoning Text amendment to the New York City Zoning Resolution to…
Anshel Fridman through the company Artist Construction LLC, on January 19, filed a permit application for construction of a 89-unit, 60,999-square-foot residential building at 91 Bruckner Boulevard in Mott Haven, Bronx. Fridman through the company 91 Bruckner Blvd LLC bought the property from Jeffrey Fiedler through Jescan Realty Corp, for $8.425 million, in a deal that closed on January 3, 2022. Michael Saidian of Capital…
JIH Group, on January 19, filed a permit application for construction of a 32-unit, 22,011-square-foot residential building at 150 Erasmus Street in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. Jacob Hirsch filed the plans. The plans are one of 41 new building plans filed in the neighborhood over the previous 12 months. The plans combined to call for the construction of 789 dwelling units. The plans call for the…
Mike Reznik of Central Park Capital Group, on January 18, filed a permit application for construction of a 26-unit, 19,962-square-foot, mixed-use building at 563 West 170th Street in Washington Heights, Manhattan. Over the previous 12 months there have been three new building plans, including these plans, filed in the neighborhood. The three plans combined for the construction of 368 new dwelling units in the neighborhood….
Tony Kiser through the Greve Foundation, on January 19, filed plans for a $12 million project which aims to convert a four-unit to a single-family building at 25 East 11th Street in Greenwich Village, Manhattan. The plans call for a change in the size of the building from a 54-foot-tall, five-story building with four dwelling units to a 54-foot tall, five-story building with one dwelling…
Facebook, on January 18, filed plans for a $15.8 million of work at 415 Tenth Avenue, known as 50 Hudson Yards, in Hudson Yards. The building is owned by Related Companies. In late 2019, Facebook confirmed that it would be leasing more than 1.5 million square feet of office space across 30 floors and three buildings at Hudson Yards: 1.2 million square feet in 50…
Cape Advisors, on January 13, filed four permit applications for the construction of four buildings, with a combined 469 dwelling units, in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens. David Kronman, president and principal of the firm, filed each of the plans. There have been 36 new building plans, including these plans, filed in Astoria in the previous 12 months. The plans combined call for the construction…
Binyamin Beitel’s Beitel Group, on January 13, filed a permit application for construction of a 470-unit, 306,893-square-foot residential building at 120 East 144th Street in Mott Haven, Bronx. The plans were filed under the company name Besyata Investment Group, which Beitel Group used to operate under. The new building application calls for the construction of the most dwelling units in the neighborhood in the previous…
Yossel Lichtman through the company Rogers Builders and Development, on January 13, filed a permit application for construction of a 131-unit, 88,979-square-foot residential building at 435 Coney Island Avenue in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Per an analysis of new building filings with the city’s Department of Buildings, the plans call for the construction of the most residential dwelling units in the neighborhood in the previous 12 months….
Aimco, on January 13, filed a permit application for construction of a 51-unit, 96,543-square-foot mixed-use building at 1695 Second Avenue in Yorkville, Manhattan. Patti Shwayder filed the plans. The plans call for the construction of a 270-foot-tall, 22-story building and were filed with the New York City Department of Buildings under job number M00637209. The development site spans several tax lots. The project is described…
Extell Development, on January 14, received a permit for construction of a 479-unit, 364,239-square-foot mixed-use building at 180 East 125th Street in East Harlem. The owner representative in the filing was David Rothstein of Extell. Back in April of 2020 the developer filed plans for a 120-foot tall, nine-story, 354,350-square-foot office at the site. However, those plans have now been altered to reflect plans for…
Kathy Ho, on January 13, filed a permit application for construction of a 87-unit, 68,999-square-foot mixed-use building at 43-15 52nd Street in Sunnyside, Queens. The plans are one of three total new building plans filed in the neighborhood in the previous three months. The three plans combined to call for the construction of 247 dwelling units. The property was acquired with three other properties for…
George Xu’s Century Development, on January 13, filed multiple permit applications for the demolition of seven buildings at the corner of Farrington Street and 35th Avenue in Flushing, Queens. The site is located across the street from George Xu’s 100-unit condominium, known as The Farrington, located at 134-37 35th Avenue. The building currently has a $208,627,351 sellout with the NYS AG. The seven buildings are…
Vanderbilt Atlantic Holdings, on January 11, filed a permit application for construction of a 267-unit, 237,197-square-foot mixed-use building at 840 Atlantic Avenue in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. Tom Li, who runs the company along with Sam Rottenberg, filed the plans. Vanderbilt Atlantic Holdings is a relatively unknown developer. According to several reports, Simon Dushinsky, a principal at Rabsky Group, is involved in the project as a…
The Hakimian Organization, on January 12, filed a permit application for construction of a 136-unit, 113,000-square-foot mixed-use building at 250 West 49th Street in Times Square, Manhattan. Rex Hakimian, executive director at The Hakimian Organization, filed the plans. The firm recently sold their hotel condo at 75 Wall Street in Financial District for $84.7 million to the Long Island-based investment company Navika Capital Group. The…
