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The Plan: The Wrey Rental Tower Is Designed Like a Private Club
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (384+ words) As "Seinfeld" taught us, you can't acquire grace. At the Wrey, though, a new luxury rental tower in Lower Manhattan, there is grace in every nook and cranny." Situated a stone's throw from City Hall Park, the Wrey is a…...
The Plan: In Long Island City, an Old Paint Factory Pops as Condos
2+ week, 6+ hour ago (573+ words) A paragon of royalty, their loyalty is to Long Island City. ZD Jasper Realty's latest condominium project in Long Island City, Queens, is a 23-story, 182-unit luxury property that pays homage to the area's industrial past while helping to expand…...
Paul Whalen of RAMSA: 5 Questions
2+ week, 5+ day ago (1091+ words) When he designs luxury condo buildings in New York City, Miami and elsewhere, Paul Whalen aims for emotions. "We want them to feel it in their gut," said Whalen, a partner at Robert A. M. Stern Architects. The firm's recent projects in…...
NYC Residential Development Design Suffers From Blandness: Compass
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1059+ words) If you build it, they will buy it. This was one of the key points made at a panel discussion this week on the current nature of New York City residential development hosted by residential brokerage hegemon Compass at the…...
Westbridge Realty Plans Residential Building in Washington Heights
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (343+ words) New York-based real estate investment and development group Westbridge Realty Group has filed plans to build a 99-unit residential property at 4388 Broadway in Washington Heights, Manhattan, according to a recent filing with the New York City Department of Buildings." If…...
Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery Comes Alive With a Restored Visitor Hub
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (358+ words) As stunning and haunting as the arches are, Green-Wood Cemetery wanted to create a different kind of welcome for visitors before guests go walking up the hill at 25th Street and Fifth Avenue and through those beautiful arches. The nonprofit wanted…...
Phipps Houses Files Plans for 327 Affordable Units in Cypress Hills
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (221+ words) Phipps Houses is preparing to deliver more apartments after filing plans for a new 327-unit project in Brooklyn. According to a filing with the New York City Department of Buildings, the 11-story, 339, 616-square-foot building planned for 105 Dinsmore Place in Cypress…...
Shlomi Avdoo's Eponymous Development Firm Leans Into Manhattan
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (1010+ words) In two decades, Shlomi Avdoo has gone from rehabbing Park Slope-area brownstones and developing small-beans projects in the outer reaches of Queens and Brooklyn to developing design-forward, contextually conscious buildings in collaboration with Architectural Digest 100-level talent. Until now, most…...
CIM Group Plans 661 Housing Units at Former Watchtower Site
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (196+ words) Developer CIM Group has submitted a rezoning application to bring 661 residential units " 165 of which would be designated as affordable housing " to the five-building Brooklyn Heights site also known as the Watchtower Buildings. CIM Group did not immediately respond to Commercial…...
Remote Work Inspired a Lot of the Design at Kips Bay's Hendrix House
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (570+ words) Hendrix House at 429 Second Avenue in Manhattan's Kips Bay is designed to be a paradise for remote workers " at least those who pull in salaries high enough to make $1. 6 million for a two-bedroom doable." Developed by New Empire Corporation, with…...