New renderings have been revealed for the proposed Caesars Palace Times Square casino complex at 1515 Broadway in Midtown, Manhattan. Developed in a partnership between SL Green, Caesars Entertainment and Roc Nation, the $5.4 billion project would involve an office-to-hotel conversion of the existing 54-story skyscraper and include 992 guest rooms, a rooftop observatory, and hotel amenities in addition to the lower-level gaming facility. The property is located between West 44th and 45th Streets. ... Read full Story
By New York YIMBY | Max Gillespie | 7/3/2025 7:30 AM
RXR and Korman Communities have released new renderings for 5 Cottage, the second phase of the AVE Hamilton Green development in White Plains. Located on the former site of the White Plains Mall, the project comprises two residential towers: the 12-story 25 Cottage and the 26-story 5 Cottage. The development will yield 477 rental units.
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The affordable housing lottery has launched for 544 Carroll Street, a 17-story mixed-use building in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Designed and developed by Avery Hall with L+Z Architecture as the architect of record, the structure yields 133 residences. Available on NYC Housing Connect are 35 units for residents at 40 to 110 percent of the area median income (AMI), ranging in eligible income from $37,440 to $160,380.
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Permits have been filed for a six-story mixed-use building at 2100 Union Street in Brownsville, Brooklyn. Located between Sutter and Blake Avenues, the lot is steps from the Sutter Avenue-Rutland Road subway station, served by the 2, 3, 4, and 5 trains. David Goldberger is listed as the owner behind the applications. ... Read full Story
Construction is closing in on topping out on Casoni, a 68-story residential skyscraper in the Garment District of Midtown, Manhattan. Designed by C3D Architecture and developed by Sioni Group in partnership with AB & Sons, the 785-foot-tall structure will span 384,118 square feet and yield 311 condominium units with an average scope of 991 square feet. The building will also contain 86,817 square feet of commercial space and two cellar levels. The property is alternately addressed as 100 West 37th Street and located at the intersection of Sixth Avenue and West 37th Street.
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By New York YIMBY | Max Gillespie | 7/2/2025 7:30 AM
Skanska has completed an $8 million renovation of the Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) Sports Medicine Institute West Side at 610 West 58th Street in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan. The project expanded and modernized the hospital's outpatient care facility, which serves more than 95,000 patients annually. Work was performed in collaboration with Batska Consulting Group and required coordination with the building’s landlord, tenants, and HSS operations due to the facility’s location within an occupied residential structure. The property is located between Eleventh and Twelfth Avenues.
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The affordable housing lottery has launched for 1215 Fulton Street, a pair of ten-story residential buildings also addressed 12 Halsey Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Designed by Ismael Leyva Architects and developed by Time Square Development Group, the structure yields 87 co-living residences. Available on NYC Housing Connect are 72 units for residents at 130 percent of the area median income (AMI), ranging in eligible income from $99,943 to $227,500. New residents have an incentive offer of one month free rent on one-year leases, and two-months free on two-year leases. ... Read full Story
Permits have been filed for a seven-story mixed-use building at 219 Harman Street in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Located at the intersection of Harman Street and Myrtle Avenue, the triangular lot is steps from the Knickerbocker Avenue subway station, served by the M train. David Halberstam of Bruklyn Builders Inc. is listed as the owner behind the applications.
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Excavation progressing at 70 Hudson Yards, the site of a 47-story commercial skyscraper in Hudson Yards, Manhattan. Designed by Roger Ferris + Partners and Gensler and developed by Related Companies and Oxford Properties, the 717-foot-tall structure will yield 1.1 million square feet of office space and is planned to become New York’s first zero-carbon emission skyscraper. The property is bounded by West 36th and 35th Streets to the north and south, The Set at 451 Tenth Avenue to the east, and Hudson Boulevard East and Bella Abzug Park to the west. ... Read full Story
By New York YIMBY | Michael Young | 7/1/2025 7:31 AM
Construction has topped out on 232 East 84th Street, a five-story residential building in the Yorkville section of Manhattan's Upper East Side. The construction board and building permits posted on site indicate there will be a total of four apartments and a cellar level. 68-1509 Estate LLC is listed as the owner of the property, which is located on a very narrow rectangular parcel between Second and Third Avenues. It's unclear who is the architect, or what the final design will look like. ... Read full Story
By New York YIMBY | Max Gillespie | 7/1/2025 7:01 AM
Construction has broken ground on 290 Coles Street, a $400 million residential development in Jersey City, New Jersey. Designed by MHS Architecture and developed in partnership between Albanese Organization, BXP, and CrossHarbor Capital Partners, the property will yield 670 rental apartments. The 1.75-acre property is bounded by 17th Street to the north, 16th Street to the south, Jersey Avenue to the east, and Coles Street to the west. ... Read full Story
Permits have been filed to expand a single-story structure into a five-story residential building at 40 State Street in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn. Located between Hicks Street and Columbia Place, the lot is near the Court Street subway station, served by the R train. Vadem Brodsky is listed as the owner behind the applications.
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Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for July 3, 2025 is:
desultory \DEH-sul-tor-ee\ adjective
Desultory is a formal word used to describe something that lacks a plan or purpose, or that occurs without regularity. It can also describe something unconnected to a main subject, or something that is disappointing in progress, performance, or quality.
// After graduation, I moved from job to job in a more or less desultory manner before finding work I liked.
// The team failed to cohere over the course of the season, stumbling to a desultory fifth place finish.
“One other guy was in the waiting room when I walked in. As we sat there past the scheduled time of our appointments, we struck up a desultory conversation. Like me, he’d been in the hiring process for years, had driven down from Albuquerque the night before, and seemed nervous. He asked if I’d done any research on the polygraph. I said no, and asked him the same question. He said no. We were getting our first lies out of the way.” — Justin St. Germain, “The Memoirist and the Lie Detector,” New England Review, 2024
Did you know?
The Latin adjective desultorius was used by the ancient Romans to describe a circus performer (called a desultor) whose trick was to leap from horse to horse without stopping. English speakers took the idea of the desultorius performer and coined the word desultory to describe that which figuratively “jumps” from one thing to another, without regularity, and showing no sign of a plan or purpose. (Both desultor and desultorius, by the way, come from the Latin verb salire, meaning “to leap.”) A desultory conversation leaps from one topic to another, and a desultory comment is one that jumps away from the topic at hand. Meanwhile a desultory performance is one resulting from an implied lack of steady, focused effort.