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The Department of Housing Preservation and Development, on September 9, filed a permit application for construction of a 140-unit, 126,301-square-foot residential building at 100 Throop Avenue in East Williamsburg. Rona Reodica of HPD filed the plans. There have been 21 new building plans filed in the neighborhood so far this year. These plans are for the most residential units so far this year and the…

Emil Friedman, on September 9, filed a permit application for construction of a 25-unit, 25,480-square-foot mixed-use building at 453 East 166th Street in Morrisania, Bronx. There have been 18 plans filed for residential (R-2) new buildings in the neighborhood so far this year. The average unit count for those 18 plans was 25 dwelling units per building. The plans call for the construction of a…

George Xu’s Century Development Group, on September 10, filed two permit applications for the demolition of commercial buildings in Queens, the first a 56,000-square-foot building at at 11-36 45th Road in Long Island City and the other a 15,658-square-foot building at 135-01 35th Avenue in Flushing. No new building plans have been filed yet at either address. There have been 18 demolition plans filed in…

IMPACCT Brooklyn, on September 10, was given a permit for construction of a 64-unit, 34,000-square-foot residential building at 811 Lexington Avenue in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Bernell K. Grier, executive director at IMPACCT Brooklyn, filed the plans. IMPACCT Brooklyn is a community development corporation focussed in Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, Bedford Stuyvesant, Crown Heights, and Prospect Heights. The development is in collaboration with the Northeastern Conference of Seventh…

Oxford Properties Group and the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board, on September 10, filed plans for $6.7 million of work on one floor at 550 Washington Street in Soho, Manhattan. The plans are part of the redevelopment of St. John’s Terminal as part of Google’s Hudson Square campus. The developer recently filed seven plans for a total of $37.8 million of work at the building….

Michel Perle of Timber Equities, on September 8, filed a permit application for construction of a 60-unit, 43,203-square-foot mixed-use building at 5055 Broadway in Inwood, Manhattan. The job description indicates it is a New York City Housing Preservation and Development project. These are the fourth new building plans filed in Inwood so far this year. The plans call for the second most residential units in…

PincusCo is taking a look at zoning diagrams for some of the most significant projects filed over the last several months. The three plans are from projects filed by Jeff Sutton’s Wharton Properties, Starrett Development, and Lendlease. These schematic drawings are not fleshed out architectural designs, and are not meant to represent the final design of the building. PincusCo is publishing these to give readers…

Slate Property Group closed yesterday on the purchase of the 42-unit dormitory building at 118 West 13th Street in Greenwich Village for $22.85 million from The New School, according to Steve Figari, managing director at Slate Property Group. Slate is led by Martin Nussbaum and David Schwartz. According to Crains, The New School was looking for $40 million for the building when they originally put…

Yu Liu, on September 7, was given a permit for construction of a 51-unit, 39,442-square-foot mixed-use building at 27-20 42nd Road in Long Island City, Queens. The plans, pre-filed on September 4, 2020, call for the construction of a 99-foot tall, eight-story mixed-use building. The project is described in the filings as: construct new eight-story mixed-use building as per plans filed. According to the plans,…

On September 7 the demolition of a 45,654-square-foot building was formally completed at 51-30 Northern Boulevard in Woodside, Queens. The New York City School Construction Authority purchased the parcel, along with 53-20 Northern Boulevard and 53-22 Northern Boulevard, for $40 million on October 11, 2019. According to local reports, the NYC SCA is planning to construct a six-story, 304,617-square-foot school at the site. The article…

Related Companies, on September 7, formally completed a $51.4 million rehabilitation of one floor at 10 Columbus Circle at the Time Warner Center. The plans, pre-filed on April 21, 2020, call for work on the 11th floor of the 750-foot tall, 54-story building. The project is described in the filings as: removal and installation of interior non-bearing partitions and related finishes as per plans filed…

Vornado Realty Trust, on September 8, filed plans for a $7.3 million rehabilitation of two floors at 1 Penn Plaza in Manhattan. 1 Penn Plaza is a 2.7 million-square-foot office building between Seventh and Eighth avenues and 33rd and 34th streets. The plans call for work on floors 35 and 36 of the 699-foot-tall, 57-story building and were filed with the New York City Department…

Prosper Property Group, on September 3, filed a permit application for construction of a 133-unit, 90,926-square-foot mixed-use building at 85-03 68th Road in Rego Park, Queens. Damien Smith, the founder of the firm, filed the plans. These are the largest new building plans filed in the neighborhood, in terms of residential units, since at least the start of 2018. The plans call for the construction…

Leo Greenfield, on September 6, filed a permit application for construction of a 41-unit, 22,706-square-foot building at 375 Lefferts Avenue in Prospect Lefferts Gardens, Brooklyn. These are the third new building plans filed in the neighborhood so far this year. Perhaps more significantly, these are the most residential units filed for in the neighborhood since at least the start of 2018. The plans call for…

The Shefa School, on September 3, filed plans for a $13.3 million project which aims to convert a business school and office building to a primary and middle school at 17 West 60th Street in Lincoln Square, Manhattan. The plans also call for a slight vertical enlargement of the building, in addition to the change in use. The Shefa School, a Jewish day school which…

Hackman Capital Partners, on September 2, filed permit applications for the demolition of three buildings at 32-05 Greenpoint Avenue, 32-11 Greenpoint Avenue, and 52-29 35th Street in Long Island City, Queens. The developer purchased the properties in a transaction which included seven total parcels, which have a total buildable of 19,992 square feet, for $5.3 million form Joseph Lazo in May of this year, according…

Heritage Realty Services, on September 2, filed plans for a $7.2 million project that aims to convert retail space to office space on two floors at the office condominium located at 420 Fifth Avenue in the Garment District, Manhattan. 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…