On April 8, a permit was given for construction of a 23,832-square-foot commercial building at 53 Scott Avenue in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The permits are both foundation and new building permits. Pamela Gaslow of Erika Warehouse Corp. filed the plans before the property was sold to Thomas Ta for $5.1 million in October of last year. The Gaslow family had owned the property since 1980….
Cove Property and Baupost Group, on April 8, formally completed a $39.6 million build-out of several floors of commercial space in a building at 441 Ninth Avenue, known as Hudson Commons, in Hudson Yards. The plans, pre-filed on November 6, 2019, call for a build-out of floors four through 11 of the 419-foot tall, 26-story building. The project is described in the filings as: interior…
Brookfield Properties, on April 8, formally completed an $11 million rehabilitation of one floor at 1 New York Plaza in the Financial District. The plans, pre-filed on January 9, 2020, call for a rehab of the 11th floor of the 640-foot-tall, 50-story building. The project is described in the filings as: removal and installation of interior non-bearing partitions as per plans filed herewith. No change…
The New York City School Construction Authority, on April 8 and April 9, filed three permit applications for $16.8 million in rehabilitations of school buildings at 138-30 Lafayette Street in Ozone Park, Queens; 820 Hancock Street in Ocean Hill, Brooklyn; and 134 West 122nd Street in Central Harlem, Manhattan. The first plans, pre-filed on April 8, 2021, call for the replacement of oil boilers with…
The New York City Housing Authority, on April 4, filed a permit application for construction of a 190-unit, 141,582-square-foot mixed-use building at 57 Marcus Garvey Boulevard in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Matthew Charney filed the plans. The plans call for the construction of a 106-foot tall, 10-story mixed-use building, and were filed with the New York City Department of Buildings under number B00495212. The building will occupy two…
Mendy Tessler, on April 5, filed a permit application for construction of a 45-unit, 18,750-square-foot residential building at 2361 Morris Avenue in Fordham, in the Bronx. The plans call for the construction of a 70-foot tall, seven-story residential building and were filed with the New York City Department of Buildings under number X00498497. The building will occupy one tax lot. The project is described in…
Mayer Gottlieb, on April 5, filed a permit application for a 59,088-square-foot expansion of a community facility building at 2561 University Avenue in University Heights of Bronx. The project will bring the total square footage of the development to 99,463 square feet. The plans call for the expansion of the existing 69-foot tall, five-story building and were filed with the New York City Department of…
A condominium plan for a development with 18 residential units and one commercial unit was submitted at 6915 15th Avenue in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. The condo plan, CD210094, has a sellout price of $16,558,850 with the New York State Attorney General. Wen Bin Zou, Xingqiu Wang, and Liping Yu are listed as the principals of the sponsor. In February of 2018, Wen Bin Zou through the…
Liberty One Group, on April 7, was given a permit for construction of a 10-unit, 21,950-square-foot homeless shelter with 197 beds at 21 Duryea Place in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Yosef Rabinowitz filed the plans. The permit issued was a plumbing permit, with the developer receiving initial new building and foundation permits in the fall of 2020. The plans, pre-filed on June 27, 2019, call for the…
The New York City School Construction Authority, on April 7, filed three permit applications for a total of $38.1 million in rehabilitation projects of three schools in Gravesend, Park Slope, and the Mt. Hope neighborhood in the Bronx. The first plans call for a rehab of the basement, roof, and all floors of the 60-foot tall, four-story building at 99 Avenue P in Gravesend. The…
NBC, on April 6, formally completed a $3.5 million rehabilitation of one floor at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in the Plaza District. The plans, pre-filed on April 9, 2019, call for a rehab of the 18th floor of the 810-foot tall, 70-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 herewith….
JDS Development Group submitted a condominium plan for its supertall at 9 DeKalb Avenue in Downtown Brooklyn. The plans indicate 149 residential condo units and 10 commercial condo units. According to reports, when completed, the structure will surpass Extell Development’s Brooklyn Point as the borough’s tallest building. The condo plan, CD210093, does not list a sellout price with the New York State Attorney General. Michael…
By Atticus O’Brien Pappalardo A large gender imbalance remains in the new development industry in New York City, with women accounting for only 12 percent of the total square feet of construction filed for in New York City since the start of 2019. Developers filed plans with the city’s Department of Buildings calling for more than 77 million square feet of new construction between January…
Anthony Chiodi through the company ADC Builders and Developers, on April 4, filed a permit application for construction of a 15-unit, 29,787-square-foot mixed-use building at 214-29 41st Avenue in Bayside, Queens. The plans call for the construction of a 45-foot tall, four-story mixed-use building, and were filed with the New York City Department of Buildings under number Q00489289. The building will occupy two tax lots….
Aby Rosen’s RFR Holding filed plans for a $6,493,774 rehabilitation of two floors of 160 Fifth Avenue in Flatiron. The plans call for a rehab of floors three and four of the 150,000-square-foot, nine-story office and retail building, and were filed with the New York City Department of Buildings under number M00464646. The project is described in the filings as: filing herewith architectural drawing for…
Storage Deluxe, on April 5, was given a permit for construction of a 160,000-square-foot storage building at 1 Harrison Place in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Chris Lynch, director of development at Storage Deluxe, filed the plans. The permits were new building and foundation permits. The plans, pre-filed on December 6, 2019, call for the construction of an 87-foot-tall, seven-story building. According to the plans, all seven…
Related Companies filed a permit application for a $7.5 million rehabilitation of three floors at the office tower at 415 Tenth Avenue, known as 50 Hudson Yards, in Hudson Yards. The plans call for a rehab of floors three through five of the 1,011-foot tall, 58-story, building and were filed with the New York City Department of Buildings under number M00430783. The project is described…
New York City School Construction Authority, on April 5, filed a permit application for a $12 million exterior rehabilitation of a school building at 511 7th Avenue in Park Slope, Brooklyn. The plans, pre-filed on April 5, 2021, call for work on all floors, the cellar, roof, and space outside of the 65-foot tall, four-story building. The project is described in the filings as: K010-replace…
Stephen Epstein through the company JFK Hotel Partners LLC, on April 2, filed a permit application for construction of a 297-key, 108,357-square-foot hotel at 143-16 135th Avenue and a 213-key, 70,399-square-foot hotel at 144-06 135th Avenue in Jamaica, Queens. Sam Chang’s McSam Hotel Group is involved with the project. Chang was the signatory on a $71 million in construction loan at the site in 2018….
The New York City School Construction Authority, on April 1, filed a permit application for construction of an approximately 10,891-square-foot building at 75 West 205th Street in the Jerome Park neighborhood of the Bronx. The building will be used as an educational laboratory for the Bronx High School of Science. Robert Murphy, chief project officer for the city’s SCA, filed the plans. The plans call…
