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Zev Mayer of Skyrock NYC, on October 19, filed a permit application for construction of a 36-unit, 23,478-square-foot residential building at 2150 Clinton Avenue in Tremont, Bronx. The plans call for the construction of a 68-foot-tall, five-story building and were filed with the New York City Department of Buildings under job number X00610421. The development site spans two tax lots. The project is described in…

Arben Mitaj, on October 20, was given a permit for construction of a 111-unit, 75,672-square-foot residential building at 2072 Anthony Avenue in Fordham, the Bronx. The plans, pre-filed on September 29, 2020, call for the construction of a 113-foot tall, 12-story residential building. The project is described in the filings as: construct new apartment building. Per the plans, the ground floor will have two dwelling…

Xi Zhao, on October 19, received a permit for construction of a 34-unit, 27,586-square-foot residential building at 140-46 Sanford Avenue in Flushing. The plans were one of 77 new building plans filed in Flushing in 2019. There were 66 new building plans filed in the neighborhood last year, with another 67 new building plans filed this year so far. The plans, pre-filed on August 23,…

Columbia Property Trust, on October 20, filed plans for a $22.1 million exterior rehab of a commercial building, formerly known as New York Times Building, at 229 West 43rd Street in Times Square, Manhattan. Last year the developer wrapped up a $7 million tenant build-out in the office portion of the building for their tenant Snapchat. Columbia Property Trust owns the office condominium unit in…

Metropolitan Museum of Art, on October 19, filed plans for a $18.2M rehabilitation project of several floors at 1000 5th Avenue in Central Park, Manhattan. There have been a total of six alteration plans filed at the building so far this year. These plans are easily the most expensive, and the only plans with an initial cost of more than $1 million. The plans call…

On October 15, a condominium plan was submitted by Urban Standard Development for seven residential units at 142 West 19th Street in Chelsea. The condo plan, CD210290, has a sellout price of $24,650,000 listed with the New York State Attorney General. Seth Weissman, founder and president of Urban Standard Development, is listed as the principal of sponsor. The developer purchased the site for $8.5 million…

On October 7, a condominium plan was submitted by Ascent Development for 130 residential units at 45-25 Davis Street in Long Island City, Queens. The project has an alternate address of 45-30 Pearson Street. The condo plan, CD210284, lists Amit Veeramachaneni and Zhidong Wu as the principals. In February of 2019, Veeramachaneni filed new building plans with the city’s Department of Buildings calling for the…

Gotham Organization has submitted a private application for a Department of City Planning Chair certification pursuant to ZR 93-31 for a District Improvement Fund bonus, to increase the permitted floor area ratio at its planned 453-unit, 428,208-square-foot mixed-use building at 550 10th Avenue in Hudson Yards. Floor area ratio (FAR) is the total floor area on a zoning lot, divided by the lot area of…

Chris Jiashu Xu’s United Construction & Development Group, on October 18, received a permit for construction of a 37,686-square-foot school building at 86-55 Queens Boulevard in Elmhurst. According to the plans’ original Schedule A, the whole building was originally to be used as health care facility space. However, those plans have since changed. There were 25 new building plans filed in Elmhurst in 2018, the…

The Rockefeller Foundation, on October 18, filed plans for a $5.8M rehab of a building at 420 Fifth Avenue in Garment District, Manhattan. The Rockefeller Foundation owns five floors in the building. They occupied the space in the early 1990s, before exercising an option to buy the floors by paying the remaining bond obligations of $30 million, according to the Real Deal. There have been…

Silverstein Properties, on October 18, filed plans for a $2.9 million rehabilitation of an office building, known as Americas Tower, at 1177 Avenue of the Americas in Midtown. The plans call for work on the 39th floor of the 674-foot-tall, 48-story building and were filed with the New York City Department of Buildings under job number M00574719. The project is described in the filing as:…

Quinlan Development Group, on October 15, filed a permit application for construction of a 197-unit, 169,726-square-foot mixed-use building at 374 Fourth Avenue in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Kyle Cohen, project manager at Quinlan, filed the plans. The plans call for the construction of the most dwelling units in Gowanus since February of 2014. The plans are only the third new building plans in the neighborhood this year….

The New York City Economic Development Corporation, on October 15, filed a permit application for construction of a 1,041-unit, 589,842-square-foot mixed-use building at 495 11th Avenue, between 39th and 40th street, in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan. The building will have 683 hotel rooms and 358 apartments. Karina Gilbert, senior vice president of design and construction with the city’s EDC, filed the plans. The project, which has…

Property Markets Group, on October 15, filed a permit application for the demolition of a 25,430-square-foot warehouse building at 403 Carroll Street in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Richard Lam, a principal with PMG, filed the plans. The developer purchased the property for $14 million on December 4, 2012. At the time, Lam said that PMG did not have plans for the site and were instead just looking…

David Huang, on October 14, filed a permit application for construction of a 48-unit, 35,191-square-foot residential building at 153-33 89th Avenue in Jamaica, Queens. These are the 39th new building plans filed in the neighborhood so far this year, in what is typically one of the more active neighborhoods in terms of new development. The plans call for the construction of an 80-foot-tall, nine-story building…

L+M Development Partners, on October 14, filed a permit application for construction of a 194-unit, 175,966-square-foot mixed-use building at 405 West 206th Street in Inwood, Manhattan. David Dishy, president of development at L+M Development, filed the plans. There have now been five new building plans filed in Inwood this year. Of the plans, these plans call for the construction of the most dwelling units. The…

Abraham Biller, on October 15, filed a permit application for construction of a 31-unit, 27,982-square-foot mixed-use building at 672 Union Avenue in Morrisania, Bronx. There have been plans filed for the construction of 32 new buildings in the neighborhood this year, including these plans. The developments total 648 dwelling units. The plans call for the construction of a 74-foot-tall, seven-story building and were filed with…

Atlantis Development, on October 15, filed a permit application for construction of a 49-unit, 29,843-square-foot residential building at 2001 Creston Avenue in Tremont, Bronx. Robert Lumaj filed the plans. The developer originally filed plans for the development in January. However, those plans were marked as “closed by the admin” on April 4. The plans call for the construction of a 63-foot-tall, seven-story building and were…