New renderings have been revealed for the planned campus upgrades to Lincoln Center on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Designed by Weiss/Manfredi and led by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Lincoln Center West Initiative, the project will transform Damrosch Park on the Amsterdam Avenue side of the complex with a new outdoor theater and public recreation space. Moody Nolan is the architect of record and Hood Design Studio is the landscape architect for the development, which is located at the southwest corner of the Lincoln Center plan by the corner of Amsterdam Avenue and West 62nd Street.
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Excavation is steadily unfolding at 579 Sackett Street, the site of an 11-story residential building in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Designed by Kao Hwa Lee Architects and developed by Hershy Silberstein of BlueSky Developers, the 110-foot-tall structure will span 46,943 square feet and yield 64 rental units with an average scope of 681 square feet. The project will also include 3,348 square feet of ground-floor retail space. The property is alternately addressed as 224 3rd Avenue and located at the corner of 3rd Avenue and Sackett Street. ... Read full Story
By New York YIMBY | Max Gillespie | 5/20/2025 7:00 AM
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has launched the public review process for a proposed 38-story mixed-use building at the southeast corner of East 125th Street and Lexington Avenue in East Harlem, Manhattan. Designed under the high-density zoning regulations established by Mayor Eric Adams’ “City of Yes for Housing Opportunity” initiative, the project will rise above the planned Second Avenue Subway extension station. If approved, it will yield approximately 680 new residential units, over 150 of which will be permanently affordable. ... Read full Story
Permits have been filed for a ten-story mixed-use building at 40-46 75th Street in Elmhurst, Queens. Located between 41st Avenue and Broadway, the lot is one block south of the Jackson Heights-Roosevelt Avenue subway station, served by the E, F, M, and R trains and the 74th Street-Broadway station, served by the 7 train. Robert Guo is listed as the owner behind the applications. ... Read full Story
Maple Hospitality Group, the owners behind Maple & Ash, was accused of “fraudulently” tapping $7.6 million in Small Business Paycheck Protection Program funds, according to the civil suit. ... Read full Story
Construction is nearing completion on The Brook, a 51-story residential skyscraper at 589 Fulton Street in Downtown Brooklyn. Designed by Beyer Blinder Belle and developed by Witkoff Group and Apollo Global Management, the 601-foot-tall structure will span 557,973 square feet and yield 591 rental units with an average scope of 827 square feet. The development will also include 68,693 square feet of retail space, a cellar level, and two floors of recreational and sports amenities. Thirty percent of the units will be reserved for affordable housing. The property is bounded by DeKalb Avenue to the north, Fulton Street to the south, Flatbush Avenue Extension diagonally to the east, and Bond Street to the west. ... Read full Story
Excavation is underway at 433-437 Flushing Avenue, the site of a seven-story mixed-use building in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Designed by SpectorArchitects and developed by Congregation Yetev Lev D’Satmar under the Satmar Flushing LLC, the 28,662-square-foot structure will yield 34 units, according to permits filed in 2011. The project will also include nearly 14,000 square feet of community facility space on the ground floor and cellar level, as well as enclosed parking for ten vehicles. The property is located between Franklin and Bedford Avenues. ... Read full Story
By New York YIMBY | Max Gillespie | 5/19/2025 7:01 AM
Governor Kathy Hochul has announced that the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) will award $86 million through its Capital Projects Fund, with a portion of the funding allocated to cultural infrastructure projects in New York City and Long Island. Among the 134 statewide recipients, notable NYC and Long Island grantees include the Afro-Latin Jazz Alliance of New York in Manhattan and the Gateway Playhouse in Suffolk County. ... Read full Story
Permits have been filed for a 15-story residential building at 23 Mount Hope Place in Mount Hope, The Bronx. Located between Jerome Avenue and Walton Avenue, the lot is near the 176th Street subway station, served by the 4 train. Joel Brach of Buildhouser Inc. is listed as the owner behind the applications. ... Read full Story
Global insurance and investment firm Starr is expanding into Silverstein Properties’ 1177 Sixth Ave. The new, 49,264 square-foot lease is in addition to Starr’s current space at 399 Park Ave., where it will remain. Sources said the asking rent was in the $80s per square foot. Starr signed a lease for the seventh and eighth... ... Read full Story
Some day, and that day may never come, real-estate media will discover that tenant departures and loan expirations at any particular office building don’t portend doom for the building. ... Read full Story
Five years on, New York City office building foot traffic has all but recovered from the “work from home” losses caused by the pandemic — and here’s the proof. Visits to office buildings in April were a mere 5.5% below April 2019 levels, authoritative Placer.ai platform found, making the Big Apple the nation’s clear leader in back-to-office trends. Although... ... Read full Story
A new exterior rendering has been revealed for 175 3rd Street, an upcoming two-tower mixed-use building in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Developed by Charney Companies and Tavros Capital, the structure will yield around 1,000 rental units in studio- to three-bedroom layouts. The project is slated to become the largest in the neighborhood, yielding around 1 million square feet, and will also include, ground-floor retail space. It's unclear how many of the homes will be dedicated to affordable housing. The property is bounded by 3rd Street to the south, 3rd Avenue to the east, and the Gowanus Canal to the west. ... Read full Story
By New York YIMBY | Michael Young | 5/18/2025 7:30 AM
Last week, Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Economic Development Corporation President and CEO Andrew Kimball announced that Manhattan-based construction firm Artimus and the Phoenix Realty Group will lead the construction and development effort for the New Stapleton Waterfront, an upcoming mixed-income residential complex on two vacant parcels of land in Stapleton, Staten Island. Designed by GF55 Architects, the development will yield 500 units with around 25 percent designated as affordable housing for families earning between 40 and 80 percent of the area median income (AMI). The project, which is set to become the largest mass timber residential development in New York City, is situated between Front Street and the Stapleton waterfront. ... Read full Story
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for May 24, 2025 is:
limn \LIM\ verb
Limn is a formal verb most often used especially in literary contexts to mean "to describe or portray," as in "a novel that limns the life of 1930s coastal Louisiana." It can also mean "to outline in clear sharp detail," as in "a tree limned by moonlight," and "to draw or paint on a surface," as in "limning a portrait."
// The documentary limns the community's decades-long transformation.
// We admired every detail of the portrait, gracefully limned by the artist's brush.
"... the story of Ronald Reagan's jelly beans is not simply about his love of a cute candy. It speaks to how he weaned himself from tobacco, judged people's character, and deflected scrutiny. It limns the role of the sugar industry and food marketing. And it demonstrates how food can be a powerful communications tool. Reagan's jelly beans sent a message to voters: 'I like the same food you do, so vote for me.'" — Alex Prud’homme, Dinner with the President: Food, Politics, and a History of Breaking Bread at the White House, 2023
Did you know?
Limn is a word with lustrous origins, tracing ultimately to the Latin verb illuminare, meaning "to illuminate." Its use in English dates back to the Middle Ages, when it was used for the action of illuminating (that is, decorating) medieval manuscripts with gold, silver, or brilliant colors. William Shakespeare extended the term to painting in his poem "Venus and Adonis": "Look when a painter would surpass the life / In limning out a well-proportioned steed …" Over time, limn gained a sense synonymous with delineate meaning "to outline in clear sharp detail" before broadening further to mean "to describe or portray." Such limning is often accomplished by words, but not always: actors are often said to limn their characters through their portrayals, while musicians (or their instruments) may limn emotions with the sounds they make.