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Slate Property Group files plans for 26-unit mixed-use building in Rego Park

Slate Property Group, on November 8, filed a permit application for construction of a 26-unit, 57,407-square-foot mixed-use building at 92-54 Queens Boulevard in Rego Park, Queens. David Schwartz, co-founder and principal of Slate Property Group, filled the plans. Hai Keng Luo is listed as the owner of the property, according to city records. These are the fifth new building plans filed in the neighborhood so…

Elected officials and City Hall reach agreement on Gowanus rezoning

By Atticus O’Brien-Pappalardo According to reports, elected officials and City Hall have reached an agreement on demands for the Gowanus rezoning, signaling a likely approval in City Council. Among the demands was a $200 million commitment from City Hall to renovate 1,662 apartments in two New York City Housing Authority complexes which fall within the proposed rezoning area. Developers have been preparing for the rezoning…

Asset Realty and Construction Group files plans for 129K sf storage building in Rockaway Park

Asset Realty and Construction Group, on November 8, filed a permit application for construction of a 129,734-square-foot storage building at 106-02 Rockaway Beach Boulevard in Rockaway Park, Queens. Dino Tomassetti, President and CEO of the firm, filed the plans. The estimated job cost is $12 million. The plans call for the construction of a 78-foot-tall, six-story building and were filed with the New York City…

PincusCo data bite: 1-2-3 family development by the numbers

By Atticus O’Brien-Pappalardo PincusCo is taking a deep dive into 1-2-3 family development in NYC in 2021. So far there have been plans filed for a 562 1-2-3 family developments, totaling 984 dwelling units. PincusCo looked at all residential new building plans (R-2 and R-3) filed this year which called for the construction of between one and three residential units. 306 of the plans called…

Mattone Investors permitted for 123-unit mixed-use building in Williamsburg

Mattone Investors, on November 8, received a permit for the construction of a 123-unit, 97,915-square-foot mixed-use building at 402 Metropolitan Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Christopher Todd filed the plans. The plans were one of 43 new building plans filed in Williamsburg last year. The plans, pre-filed on August 11, 2020, call for the construction of an 85-foot tall, eight-story mixed-use building. The project is described…

Bruchy Lefkowitz permitted for 90-unit mixed-use building in Fort Greene

Bruchy Lefkowitz, on November 5, was given a permit for construction of a 90-unit, 71,721-square-foot mixed-use building at 58 Vanderbilt Avenue in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. The plans were one of six new building plans filed in the neighborhood in 2019, calling for the construction of the second most dwelling units in Fort Greene that year. Three new building plans were filed in the neighborhood last…

Rockefeller files plans for $20M single-floor rehab of a building in Times Square

Rockefeller Group, on November 7, filed plans for a $20 million rehabilitation of one floor of a building at 1221 Avenue of the Americas in Times Square, Manhattan. The plans call for work on the second floor of the 662-foot-tall, 51-story building and were filed with the New York City Department of Buildings under job number M00581381. The project is described in the filing as:…

PMG files plans for 517 units in two buildings in Gowanus

Kevin Maloney’s Property Markets Group, on November 4, filed permit applications for two new buildings in Gowanus, Brooklyn, that will have a total of 517 units. The first plans called for the construction of a 344-unit, 295,262-square-foot mixed-use building at 267 Bond Street. The second called for a 173-unit, 189,555-square-foot mixed-use building at 498 Sackett Street. Daniel Kaplan, a managing partner at the firm, filed…

Michael Rosenberg files plans for 63-unit, 41-unit buildings in Cypress Hills

Michael Rosenberg, on November 4, filed a permit application for construction of a 63-unit, 36,923-square-foot mixed-use building at 2777 Atlantic Avenue and a 41-unit, 28,080-square-foot mixed-use building at 2767 Atlantic Avenue in Cypress Hills, Brooklyn. The plans call for the first and second most residential (R-2) units in the neighborhood so far this year. There have also been plans filed for one hotel building with…

City files plans for 82-unit residential building in East Harlem

The Department of Housing Preservation and Development, on November 5, filed a permit application for construction of an 82-unit, 55,051-square-foot building at 107 East 123rd Street in East Harlem, Manhattan. Rona Reodica of HPD filed the plans. The building will have supportive and affordable housing. The HPD recently filed plans for a 140-unit, 126,301-square-foot residential building at 100 Throop Avenue in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The…

Mendy Tessler files plans for 51-unit resi building in Fordham

Mendy Tessler, on November 4, filed a permit application for the construction of a 51-unit, 26,826-square-foot residential building at 2187 Ryer Avenue in Fordham, the Bronx. Earlier this year, the developer filed plans for construction of a 45-unit, 18,750-square-foot residential building at 2361 Morris Avenue in the same Bronx neighborhood. The plans call for the construction of a 75-foot-tall, eight-story building and were filed with…

Jay Group permitted for 238-unit mixed-use building on Hamilton Heights property owned by Isaac Chetrit

Jay Group, on November 4, was given a permit for construction of a 238-unit, 222,329-square-foot mixed-use building at 620 West 153rd Street in Hamilton Heights, Manhattan. Isaac Chetrit’s AB & Sons Group and an affiliate of Aini Capital through the entity ABS 153 LLC purchased the property from Anbau for $28.8 million in May of 2020. The plans call for the construction of a 285-foot…

Developer seeks rezoning for 233-unit mixed-use building in LIC

An entity affiliated with the Rosenwach Group submitted rezoning plans to facilitate the development of a 175,000-square-foot mixed-use building with 233 residential dwelling units at 40-25 Crescent Street in Long Island City, Queens. The developer was not individually identified in the application. Andrew Rosenwach of the Rosenwach Group, a supplier and servicer of water storage tanks and towers, cooling products and services, was listed as…

October new building review: over 5,000 units, 7.6M sf filed for as new development continues to reach new highs

By Atticus O’Brien-Pappalardo Last month new building plans were filed calling for the construction of 5,137 residential dwelling units, the most in a single month since the start of 2020. PincusCo looked at all new building (NB) filings of 2,000-square-feet and above. For residential buildings, the analysis covered those with four or more units, and did not include residential units in hotel (R-1) buildings. There…

Weill Cornell files plans for 128K sf campus building in UES

UPDATED 12:56 p.m., Oct. 23, 2023: Weill Cornell Medical College, on November 3, filed a permit application for construction of a 221-unit, 128,205-square-foot building at 1393 York Avenue in the Upper East Side, Manhattan. Dmitri Konon, assistant vice provost at Weill Cornell Medicine, filed the plans. The zoning information states the building will only have 31 apartments, however the scope of work states there will…

Betsy Mak files plans for 43-key hotel in Flushing

Betsy Mak, on November 3, filed a permit application for construction of a 43-key, 20,709-square-foot hotel at 131-24 40th Road in Flushing, Queens. There have been eight hotel plans filed in Queens so far this year. These are the second hotel plans filed in the neighborhood of Flushing. The other plans, filed by Margaret Ling through the company 40th Road Realty Group LLC, on February…

Bawabeh Holdings files plans for 49K sf charter school in East New York

Bawabeh Holdings, on November 2, filed a permit application for construction of a 49,385-square-foot charter school at 556 New Lots Avenue in East New York, Brooklyn. Soly Bawabeh, a partner with the company, filed the plans. According to the plans, the building will also have commercial and community space. The developer is also behind plans for a 48,072-square-foot school building at 1935 Eastern Parkway Extension…

Joshua Greenberg files plans for 22-unit resi building in East Williamsburg

Joshua Greenberg through the company 566 Grand Street SPE LLC, on November 3, filed a permit application for construction of a 22-unit, 17,283-square-foot residential building at 566 Grand Street in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The two parcels were purchased last month in separate transactions for a total of $5 million. The estimated job cost is $5,213,760. The plans call for the construction of a 74-foot-tall, eight-story…

Morgan Stanley files plans for $25.7M of rehabs in Times Square

Morgan Stanley, on November 2 and 3, filed two plans for $25.7 million in rehab work at their headquarters building at 1585 Broadway in Times Square, Manhattan. There have been a total of 25 alteration plans, calling for a combined $71.99 million of work, filed at the building so far this year. The first plans call for $17.6 million of work on floors 23, 34…

Georgetown Company files plans for $17.3M fit-out for Mount Sinai in Clinton

The Georgetown Company, on November 2, filed plans for a $17.3 million fit-out of several floors for the Mount Sinai hospital building at 787 11th Avenue in Clinton, Manhattan. There have now been $62.3 million worth of alteration plans filed at the building so far this year. Recently, Georgetown filed plans for an $18.1 million fit-out, also for Mount Sinai. The plans call for work…