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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An updated design has been revealed for 29-00 Queens Boulevard, a 46-story residential skyscraper in Long Island City, Queens. Designed by CetraRuddy Architecture and developed by LargaVista Companies in a collaboration with Baron Property Group, the 525-foot-tall structure will span around 420,000 square feet and yield 565 rental units in studio- to two-bedroom layouts, with 169 designated as affordable housing. The project will also include 25,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space. The property is alternately addressed as both 29-10 Northern Boulevard and 30-25 Queens Boulevard, and is located at the corner of Queens Plaza East and Queens Boulevard, directly west of the Sunnyside Yards rail tracks. ... Read full Story
Demolition is ramping up at 1410-1418 Third Avenue, the site of a planned 53-story residential skyscraper on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Designed by Hill West Architects and developed by Skyline Developers, the 508-foot-tall structure will yield an undisclosed number of units along with 2,000 square feet of ground-floor retail space. The property is alternately addressed as 185 East 80th Street and is situated at the corner of Third Avenue and East 80th Street. ... Read full Story
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for July 13, 2025 is:
contrite \kun-TRYTE\ adjective
Contrite is a formal adjective used to describe someone who feels regret for their bad behavior, or something, such as an apology, that shows such regret.
// Although the mayor appeared contrite about the most recent scandal plaguing city hall, many constituents remained unpersuaded.
“At the restaurant, late into the meal, ‘Honey, Honey,’ from the ‘Mamma Mia’ soundtrack began to play, with [Amanda] Seyfried’s 22-year-old voice issuing through the restaurant’s speakers. The waitress came over, contrite. The song was just part of the usual play list. ‘Listen, I love having a stake in pop culture,’ Seyfried reassured her. ‘It’s really nice.’” — Alexis Soloski, The New York Times, 11 Mar. 2025
Did you know?
Props to Elton John: sorry really does seem to be the hardest word. But saying it (in something other than a nonapology, of course) is an important part of being contrite—that is, feeling or showing sorrow and remorse for one’s bad behavior. Contrite traces back to the Latin verb conterere, meaning “to pound to pieces,” “to crush, “to wear out or down,” or “to exhaust mentally or physically.” In Medieval Latin—the Latin used in Medieval times especially for religious or literary purposes—conterere came to mean “to crush in spirit with a sense of one’s sin,” or “to render contrite.” Anglo-French speakers borrowed a form of the verb conterere and made it the adjective contrit, which was in turn adopted into English in the 1300s.