YIMBY captured photos of 270 Park Avenue's exterior LED strips undergoing testing, offering a preview of how JPMorgan Chase’s 1,389-foot-tall Midtown East headquarters will eventually look illuminated at night. Designed by Norman Foster of Foster + Partners and developed by Tishman Speyer, the 60-story supertall skyscraper will yield 2.5 million square feet of office space with a capacity of 15,000 employees, and will become the tallest structure in New York completely powered by hydroelectric energy. Adamson Associates is the architect of record for the project, which occupies a full city block bounded by East 48th Street to the north, East 47th Street to the south, Park Avenue to the east, and Madison Avenue to the west. ... Read full Story
By New York YIMBY | Max Gillespie | 5/14/2025 7:31 AM
Weill Cornell Medicine has officially opened its new $260 million student residence hall, named the Feil Family and Weill Family Residence Hall, on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The 16-story building, located at the northwest corner of East 74th Street and York Avenue, will house 272 students and includes 163 studio apartments, seven one-bedrooms, and 51 two-bedroom units, all with full kitchens. ... Read full Story
The affordable housing lottery has launched for The Hart, a nine-story residential building at 1038 Broadway in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Designed by Marvel Architects and developed by CAMBA Housing Ventures, the structure yields 95 residences. Available on NYC Housing Connect are 18 units for residents at 60 to 90 percent of the area median income (AMI), ranging in eligible income from $57,498 to $131,220. ... Read full Story
Permits have been filed for a 12-story mixed-use building at 215 West 76th Street on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Located between Amsterdam Avenue and Broadway, the lot is two block south of the 79th Street subway station, served by the 1 train. Aleksandr Finkelshteyn of 2160 Broadway, LLC is listed as the owner behind the applications.
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The hollowed-out, cast-concrete marvel at the corner of Third Street and Third Avenue in Brooklyn is iconic to the Gowanus neighborhood. ... Read full Story
The building's developers are calling it a “once-in-a-generation” opportunity for tenants seeking rarefied air and even rarer space. ... Read full Story
Home prices climbed in nearly every one of America's top-dollar housing markets — but 10 cities stood out for having the nation's highest median sales prices. ... Read full Story
The unusual and wonderful Prospect Park South mansion once called a “Colonial Revival on steroids” returned to the market on Monday with a major facelift. ... Read full Story
Façade installation has reached the crown of THE 74, a 32-story residential tower at 201 East 74th Street on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Designed by Pelli Clarke & Partners and developed by Elad Group, which purchased the property for $61 million in April 2022, the 420-foot-tall structure will yield 41 condominium units and a collection of amenities. SLCE Architects is the architect of record for the property, which is alternately addressed as 1299 Third Avenue and located on an interior lot facing Third Avenue with two small panhandle extensions to East 74th and 75th Streets.
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Work is complete on 272 Greene Avenue, a four-story single-family residential building on the eastern edge of Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. Designed by Switzerland-based Inès Lamunière in collaboration with Matthias Müller’s Brooklyn-based MuNYC Architecture, the structure spans 2,700 square feet and includes a rooftop terrace and an off-street parking space. The building stands on a 1,313-square-foot property at the corner of Greene and Classon Avenues.
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By New York YIMBY | Max Gillespie | 5/13/2025 7:01 AM
Haussmann Development has closed on the $7.5 million purchase of a 10,166-square-foot plot for the development of a new residential building at 16-20 Convent Avenue in West Harlem, Manhattan. Designed by architect Nickolas Kazalas, the ten-story structure will yield 75 apartments with 15 reserved for residents earning 60 percent of the area median income (AMI). ... Read full Story
After launching leasing in the summer of 2024, The Ellery at 312 West 43rd Street is now officially fully leased. Developed by Taconic Partners and National Real Estate Advisors, the 32-story building in Hell's Kitchen features a rooftop pool with expansive views, a range of amenities, and 330 residences. Compass Development Marketing Group is the building’s exclusive leasing and marketing partner.
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Jackie Siegel and her late husband David Siegel bought the Tribeca home at 49 Chambers for $8.7 million in 2023, listing it for $19.5 million in 2024. ... Read full Story
The Katharine House was one of the last women’s boarding houses in New York City -- now, Nate Berkus and BKSK Architects have given it new life. ... Read full Story
Perched on a gated promontory in the Lower Bel Air neighborhood, the 2-acre compound had served as Jones’s primary residence since 2002. ... Read full Story
The current structure at 395 Flatbush Ave. is "no longer meeting the needs of the community," and could be the target for a major overhaul. ... Read full Story
The Aussie film director first listed the Gramercy Park residence for $19.99 million in 2022, but the years since have seen decreasing prices. ... Read full Story
Work is underway on the office-to-residential conversion of 222 Broadway, a 31-story building in Lower Manhattan's Financial District. Designed by CetraRuddy and developed by TPG Real Estate and GFP Real Estate, the project will transform the structure's 770,416 square feet into 798 rental apartments and 40,000 square feet of commercial space. The $43.6 million overhaul will also involve the partial re-cladding of the midcentury façade and the construction of a 40-foot extension atop the parapet, bringing the total height to 430 feet, according to permits. The property is bounded by Ann Street to the north, Fulton Street to the south, and Broadway to the west. ... Read full Story
“If highly social otters want the local scuttlebutt, so to speak, they can pick up information through the scents fellow otters leave behind at communal latrines that a group of otters will create and use.” — Lisa Meyers McClintick, The Minnesota Star Tribune, 2 Mar. 2025
Did you know?
When office workers catch up on the latest scuttlebutt around the water cooler, they are continuing a long-standing tradition that probably also occurred on sailing ships of yore. Back in the early 1800s, scuttlebutt (an alteration of scuttled butt) referred to a cask containing a ship’s daily supply of fresh water (scuttle means “to cut a hole through the bottom,” and butt means “cask”); that name was later applied to a drinking fountain on a ship or at a naval installation. In time, the term for the water source was also applied to the gossip and rumors disseminated around it, and the latest chatter has been called “scuttlebutt” ever since.