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LPC greenlights Restoration Hardware's Meatpacking hotel plans

Restoration Hardware has been given the green light to move forward with plans to construct a concept hotel at 55 Gansevoort Street, just steps away from their flagship store.

Crown Heights residents urge city to nix Bedford -Union Armory development plans

Instead of turning the city-owned land into a profitable development, residents believe that the site should be converted into a community land trust.

Rising Park Slope condo intended as ‘homage’ to neighborhood’s townhouses

The six-story mixed-use building will replace a neglected brownstone on Third Street near Seventh Avenue.

TWA Terminal redevelopment team reveals new details about its hotel revamp

At an Open House New York panel, the team revealed the redevelopment will include a restaurant inside a Lockheed Super Constellation aircraft, among other things.

Brooklyn Heights Library demolition is approved by the city

Following a recent approval of plans by the Department of Buildings, the agency has now given developers the green light to proceed with demolition of the current library.

Hudson Yards's tallest tower is making progress

Though its currently overshadowed by neighboring projects, the development is well on its way toward becoming the area’s tallest tower.

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40+ new NYC developments hitting the market this spring

Spring is almost here, and that can only mean one thing: it's time to look at the many apartments—both rentals and condos—that will be hitting New York's real estate market in the next few months. Read on for all of the new apartment news.

Latest High Line-hugging development in Chelsea is a 12-story apartment building

As if there weren’t enough new developments around the High Line, news has just come forth about another project getting ready to take shape.

Co-living startup Common launches two more Brooklyn developments

The company, which brands itself as "flexible, community-driven housing," is expanding with new properties in Bed-Stuy and Crown Heights.

With the Box Factory, Ridgewood gets its own creative office complex

The developers of this 67,000-square-foot complex, which will have office and retail tenants, hope to lure companies from Manhattan and Williamsburg.

Yet another Harlem church will be turned into apartments

The four-story church building will be replaced by a larger mixed-use parcel

Extell's Lower East Side condo hits a sales milestone

Four months after launching sales, Extell announced that the building reached its first sales milestone: 100 contracts have been signed, including one for a sleek $13 million duplex penthouse.

New look at Karl Fischer's glassy Upper East Side condo

The project got underway in 2015 after the developer purchased a three-story garage at 302 East 96th Street for $24 million, and subsequently filed plans to build the condo.

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56 Leonard's office neighbor will be reborn as a 17-story apartment building

When plans to renovate an existing office building in Tribeca fell through the cracks, the developers decided to go residential instead.

Ben Shaoul’s ‘affordable luxury’ condo in Gramercy gets another name change

When Shaoul purchased the rental, it was named Post Luminaria. In a change that was perhaps not all that creative, the building was renamed Luminaire after that.

Landmarked Beaux Arts building in the Financial District gets the condo treatment

The 99 luxury units will hit the market sometime this spring

19th-century Lower East Side row houses will be razed for condo and art gallery

Most of the apartments aside from the building’s two penthouses will be one bedrooms and average 550 square feet. The art gallery will be at the base.

Boutique condo rising in Soho's historic Cast Iron district tops out

It’s been a decade in the making but the eight-story building at 150 Wooster Street has finally taken shape and is well on its way towards completion.

Contentious Upper West Side condo addition is halted, for now

Plans to plop a 10-story condo on top of an existing seven-story apartment building on West End Avenue, between West 94th and 95th Streets, have been put on hold.

Peek inside a pricey Tribeca office-to-condo conversion

Closings got underway this January and nearly a dozen apartments have sold so far with the most recent sale being that of a five-bedroom condo on the eighth floor that sold for $8.8 million.

Target sets its sights on Midwood for its next small-format store

Target is expanding its New York City empire. The retail giant has announced that it will be opening a small-format store in Midwood, Brooklyn come the fall of 2018.

New 3D mapping tool shows past, present, and future of Lower Manhattan

It’s hard to keep track of all of the new developments in the city, let alone one neighborhood, but a new mapping tool from the Downtown Alliance will make it easier to keep a handle on what’s coming up in Lower Manhattan.

The South Bronx is getting yet another new residential building

Everything from fully affordable COOKFOX-designed developments, to supportive housing to condos for local artists is in the works in the South Bronx, and now yet another residential project is getting ready to take shape.

SHoP’s proposed timber high-rise gets the axe

The architects’ proposed tower, which would have risen 10 stories, has officially been scrapped.

Condos at Alchemy’s Upper West Side building may cost $7M on average

Located at 250 West 81st Street, the condo will replace an existing three-story building at the site. The development team was able to acquire demolition permits for the site early this year.

Jersey City’s next luxury rental, Ellipse, unveils pricing

The 41-story waterfront building, designed by prolific Miami-based firm Arquitectonica, will have 381 rentals priced from $2,600.

Jewish Theological Seminary’s Morningside Heights campus will spring a 32-story condo

Almost a year ago, development firm Savanna inked a deal with the Seminary that would allow the former to develop part of the campus into a residential building.

212 Fifth Avenue seeks to stoke sales with new model units

This latest push by the development team comes after the developers sued their former marketing firm, Town Residential for resisting being replaced.

Little Italy's Italian American museum will get a residential addition

The museum will shutdown for two years and be part of a new 12-story apartment building

Upper East Side residents reject plans to expand landmarked building

Community Board 8 unanimously rejected plans filed to add two stories, a rooftop, and a glass railing to the neo-Renaissance structure, calling the plans "grotesque and absurd," ouch.

New looks at Union Square’s forthcoming city-backed tech hub

The Union Square Tech Hub will be an all-in-one center for innovation, according to the city

Massive Bed-Stuy project poised to seek unprecedented condo prices

A seven-building development coming to the former site of Bed-Stuy’s Cadcade Linen factory may seek between $1 million and $2 million for majority of the project’s 301 condos. The neighborhood median is currently $730,000.

Former East Village home of drag restaurant Lucky Cheng’s seeks $26M

The pair of low-rises are separated by an apartment building at the corner of First Avenue and 2nd Street, but together the two properties offer 14,000 square feet of space.

Essex Crossing will now come with more affordable housing

The total number of affordable apartments will now go up from the existing 500 to 561, and the market-rate units will also increase slightly from 500 to 517.

Harlem church will give way to a 27-unit apartment building

Yet another one of New York City’s churches is slated for a conversion into apartments.

Sunset Park will become home to a sprawling hub for NYC's fashion industry

Details on this project—which also includes production space for the city’s burgeoning film and television industry—are accompanied by several new renderings of what the city is calling the "Made in New York" campus at Bush Terminal.

Greenwich Village gains another boutique rental building

The sleek red brick building offers just four luxury apartments with rents ranging from $4,250 to $10,000/month.

Developer drops plans for Forest Hills tower following community opposition

In Forest Hills, Queens, a small neighborhood street filled with dining options, known as "Restaurant Row," was well on its path to falling to residential development, however, strong community opposition has forced the developer to change his mind.

Williamsburg's Austin Nichols House has a vermin problem, tenants allege

Remaining residents also complain of lax security, gas-odor scares, and construction dust