Who would have thought the most alluring residential skyscraper addition to the city’s post-recession boom would not rise in Midtown, near its overly-discussed Billionaires’ Row, or near the city’s historical skyscraper center, the Financial District, but rather smack dab between the two at 45 East 22nd Street in the Flatiron. Overlooking Madison Square Park and its turn-of-the-century engineering marvels–the Flatiron Building and Metropolitan Life Building–the svelte glass spire has fully ascended to its full 65-story, 777-foot peak.

A malnourished baby on the world stage, the building’s height is less than a third of the world’s tallest building and will contain a paltry 83 condominium units priced from $2.5 million for a one-bedroom to $38 million for one of its two penthouses.

The project is the vision of the unsinkable Ian Bruce Eichner’s Continuum Company who tapped the high-rise virtuosos at Kohn Peterson Fox and Goldstein Hill & West for the design. Its distinctive profile, likened to a champagne flute, ascends from an air-rights-loaded, 75-foot-wide lot Eichner amassed for more than $100 million in 2013. Broadening as it rises, the silhouette crescendos to 105-feet wide and is crested by a magnificent duplex penthouse. The juxtaposition with its masonry neighbors, its faceted sculptural form, and the seamlessness of its blue-green curtain wall almost makes glass look fresh again. Down below we await the manor house-inspired rusticated granite base specified to play nice with genteel 22nd street.

Infographic of the New York’s super slender skyscrapers. 45 East 22nd fourth from the left. © Skyscraper Museum

The tower is featured on the Skyscraper Museum’s recently debuted page detailing the city’s growing number of super-slender high-rises. Carol Willis, director and founder of the museum, notes, “A new form in skyscraper history has evolved in New York over the past decade: the super-slim, ultra-luxury residential tower…where the value of views is clearly the driving force for the tower form.” In a city where everything is measured by the foot, 45 East 22nd loads as much of its allowable 250,000 square feet of floor area where it counts the most: along its coveted upper aeries that offer the farthest-reaching views. Rising in the middle of the island over the mid-rise neighborhoods of Flatiron, Gramercy, Nomad and Chelsea, 777-feet seems almost frightfully tall. In fact, the building is now the highest structure between the recently opened Coach Building in Hudson Yards and the nearly complete 56 Leonard in Tribeca.

Interiors will be designed by the acclaimed Martin Brudnizki Design Studio, and homes feature cabinetry by Molteni, appliances by Miele and Sub-Zero, solid oak wood flooring and marble bathrooms with custom Waterworks fixtures and soaking tubs. Chamfered corners, high ceilings, and floor-to-ceiling windows will maximize views, which include both the Hudson and East Rivers and the Midtown and Downtown skylines.

Five floors of amenities consist of a fitness center with boxing and private training suite, golf simulator, basketball court, kids playroom, library, billiards, cards room, terrace with outdoor grill, and two gracious lounge/entertaining spaces. The building will also have limited on-site parking, a live-in resident manager and a 24-hour doorman and concierge.

A spokesperson told Curbed last month that 60 percent of the units are already accounted for. Current availabilities include a 1,930-square-foot two-bedroom on the 16th floor for $4.83 million, a three-bedroom on the 19th floor for $5.82 million, and the spectacular four-bedroom Penthouse B asking $38 million.

View listings for 45 East 22nd Street at CityRealty.

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When the architecture community learned of the passing of Zaha Hadid in late March, it came as a bit of consolation that her first and only building in New York, 520 West 28th Street, had already begun to take shape along the High Line, ensuring that her legacy would last in our skyline. In much welcome news, 6sqft learns today that yet another design of hers will rise just three blocks away in Chelsea.

A press release from The Moinian Group reveals that more than a year ago they worked with Hadid and her team to explore possibilities for 220 Eleventh Avenue, one of her final creations. The developer announced that the new building will be “a collection of signature loft-like condominium residences, a collection of penthouses and a cultural institution to establish itself as the hub of the world renowned art district that is West Chelsea.”

The Moinian Group purchased the site of 220 Eleventh Avenue in 2002 for an undisclosed sum, and closed on a $361 bond in May 2015 from which it received funds. Though no rendering was put out, the press release hints that Hadid has “translated Manhattan’s powerful geometries and rhythms… integrating the city’s unyielding spirit and distinctive vernacular with the finely-detailed craftsmanship of her acclaimed jewelry collaborations.”

Mitchell Moinian said, “We are deeply honored to develop one of Zaha’s final creations and cement her astonishing legacy forevermore here in Manhattan. She was a special woman and a friend who we all miss very much.” Construction on 220 Eleventh Avenue is expected to begin in early 2017 with condo sales launching in the second half of the year.

Find future listings for 220 Eleventh Avenue on CityRealty.

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Earlier this year, 6sqft showed you new renderings of Archilier Architects’ “Hudson Rise” mixed-use skyscraper planned for Manhattan’s west side. Now the design firm has published their vision for a soaring, super-thin supertall at the former site of beloved dive bar Subway Inn at 151 East 60th Street. Kuafu Properties owns the 28,619-square-foot, six-building assemblage at 143-161 East 60th Street between Lexington and Third Avenues, which they acquired from the World Wide Group last year for $300 million, according to The Real Deal. Kuafu is one of the developers behind the Archilier-designed Hudson Rise development, thus these released renderings may indeed be working images of the planned project.

The slender tower shown would encompass 411,700 gross square feet of area and rise 1,240 feet high, just 10 feet shy of the Empire State Building’s height of 1,250 feet, despite containing just one-fifth of the floor space. The tower would technically be the tallest building on the Upper East Side (by far), but would be 158 feet shorter than nearby 432 Park Avenue in Midtown.

Similar to a handful of super-slim skyscrapers rising across the city, like KPF’s 45 East 22nd Street and 111 Murray Street, the tower’s floor plates would expand in size as the building rises, inflating the share of exposures with views of Central Park and beyond. According to Archilier’s description, lower elevations would feature landscaped terraces and loggias, “effectively bringing the park into the building itself,” and at street level a palette of limestone, bronze and glass would echo the area’s variegated architecture. Bloomingdale’s imposing department store sits across 60th Street, and one block away is the glass-encased Bloomberg Tower aka One Beacon Court.

In February, 6sqft learned of another set of images visualizing a 1,000+ foot tower designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox. New building permits for the project have yet to be submitted to the Department of Buildings, but demolition permits have already been filed.

View future listings for 151 East 60th Street at CityRealty.

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All renderings © Archilier Architects and Kuafu Properties

It seems every major intersection in Gramercy between East 20th and 23rd Streets is being redeveloped these days. Last fall, 6sqft reported that a humble set of walk-up buildings at the southeast corner of East 21st Street and Third Avenue were hitting the chopping block. Since then, a new building application has been filed to construct a 20-story condominium designed by BKSK Architects with Alfa Development at the helm.

A new rendering of the structure, addressed officially as 200 East 21st Street, was published on the project’s EB-5 investors page and shows a two-tiered metal and glass building. There will be 29 one-bedroom units, 24 two-bedrooms, seven three-bedrooms, and three four-bedrooms, for a total of 63 apartments spread across 80,000 square feet. The ground level will host retail spaces and a shortlist of residential amenities includes a 24-hour doorman, concierge, tenants’ storage, a bike room, fitness center, and residents’ lounge.

The building closely conforms to the area’s tight zoning envelopes. All nearby developments along the avenues conform to this lackluster massing; blocky boxes rise to a maximum height of 210 feet with a 10-foot setback beginning at 150-feet. Despite it all, the project may bring a bit of pizazz to ho-hum Third Avenue as it outlines sections of its glossy facade with LEDs and frames its glass corner with articulated sections of masonry that ripple upward.

Alfa purchased the the four-building parcel from Kevin Maloney’s Property Markets Group and Apex Investments for $69.6 million. They’re seeking $28 million in EB-5 investor funding, and demolition at the site has already commenced.

Prices of Gramercy Park-located condominiums are near their record highs and outperform the Manhattan condo average. © CityRealty

A bevy of condominium developments are underway nearby. Just one block south of Alfa’s parcel is the site of the old Cabrini Medical Center, which is being converted into a 260-unit condominium development branded as Gramercy Square. To the northwest, LKH 23rd LLC is developing a 19-story, 52-unit condo tower at 150 East 23rd Street, and as we reported earlier this year, Toll Brothers is busy excavating a site for two-towered Rem Koolhaas-designed project at the southwest corner of Lexington Avenue and 23rd Street.

From L to R: Gramercy Square, 160 Third Avenue, and 150 East 23rd Street

Over the past decade, Michael Namer’s Alfa Development has been responsible for a collection of successful eco-conscious residential buildings throughout Manhattan’s downtown neighborhoods. Their latest is the 27-unit condo Village Green West at 245 West 14th Street, which has just one home remaining on the market: a third-floor one-bedroom priced at $1,785,000.

View future listings for 200 East 21st Street at CityRealty.

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Avery Hall Investments and co-developer OTL Enterprises are forging ahead with the development of pair of understated five-story condominium buildings at 161-163 Columbia Street in Cobble Hill‘s Columbia Street Waterfront District. The team picked up the lots in 2014 through a unique deal with the nonprofit Carroll Gardens Association where proceeds of the sale would be used to preserve below-market rate rents for 28 units on the street and possibly develop 70 more affordable units in nearby Red Hook.

Demolition of a three-story walk-up at 161 Columbia Street was recently completed, and construction of the future 15,000- square-foot development will be in full swing this summer. Penned by Brooklyn-based Bricolage Design Associates, the project’s street-facing elevation will sport a solemn exterior coarsed with dark Roman brick that is uniformly punctuated by single pane rectangular windows. In each of the buildings, floors one through three will house one floor-through residence each. Atop both structures will be private terraces and a fifth-level penthouse setback 15 feet from the street wall that will house the upper levels of two duplex units. With a sprawling, mostly vacant waterfront parcel across Columbia Street, “all residences will enjoy unimpeded views of the New York Harbor and Lower Manhattan” according to Avery Hall’s page on the development. Construction is expected to be completed by mid-2017.

View future listings for 161-163 Columbia Street at CityRealty.

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A new set of images of the world’s upcoming tallest residential tower have been uncovered, these better revealing the cantilevering silhouette of the 1,550-foot supertall and how it will relate to the skyline of Central Park South.

The images of the Central Park Tower (née Nordstrom Tower) were first spotted by NY Yimby and are part of official EB-5 Immigrant Investor program materials posted online and provided by developer Extell. As such, they confirm that the supertall will indeed no longer have the spire, a feature which would have brought the tower to 1,775 feet and just a foot shy of One World Trade. The materials also reveal that the tower is being marketed with a height of 133 floors (the actual count is just 95, though some units like the 17,000-square-foot three-story penthouse have ceilings that stretch well beyond the standard) and 179 luxury residential units.

Other interesting tidbits include that Extell hopes to raise $190 million of the building’s $2.98 billion cost via EB-5 investment. And in addition to touting a Billionaires’ Row and Park-adjacent locale, the marketing documents highlight the supertall’s location near Trump Tower, “where the popular American presidential candidate lives.”

The tower is slated for completion in 2019. See more images in our gallery below.

[Via NY YIMBY]

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Few intersections of New York come close to perfection, but the corner of Shigeru Ban’s latest New York endeavor at Franklin and Broadway sure comes close. Long anchored by the exquisite 134-year-old James White Building at 361 Broadway, one would assume that a modern penthouse addition could only diminish the neo-Grecian beauty. Not so here. A rehabilitation, conversion, and enlargement spearheaded by Knightsbridge Properties seeks to produce an end sum that will at least be neutral and surely harmonious.

Named Cast Iron House by Ban himself, the 13-unit condominium development is a marriage of old, new and timeless, and it reminds us of the incredible sophistication and beauty our city can possess when the bottom line fades. As a sequel to his Metal Shutter Houses in West Chelsea, Ban and design partner Dean Maltz carve eleven airy residences within the sumptuously detailed and impeccably restored 1882 Tribeca cast iron building and float a pair of glass and steel penthouses above.

The property was purchased by Knightsbridge in 2002, and in 2009 the firm tapped award-winning preservation architects Jan Hird Pokorny Associates to undertake a three-year effort to fully restore the building’s rusting and deteriorated details that include inventive floral ornaments that climb up the facade. According to a project press release, the team removed and shipped over 4,000 pieces of the building’s original façade to a foundry in Alabama, where each piece underwent a meticulous and accurate recasting.

Once the restoration was complete, Ban was engaged to re-imagine the interior volumes and sensitively design a penthouse addition above. The 2014 Pritzker Prize winner is known for his three-dimensional poetry using basic geometric elements and for his work that stands aloof from the swinging pendulum of architectural trends. In 2012, the Landmarks Preservation Commission granted his vision a resounding hell yes, praising it as “breathtaking, magical, lyrical, beautiful and rigorous.”

Construction shots via 6sqft

Now with the addition’s steel cage fully erected, one can begin to witness Ban’s design: a pure horizontal procession of white metal frames visually aligning with columns of cast iron below. The addition is one of the rare two-story penthouses approved by the LPC in Tribeca, and its visual discretion is maintained through an 18′-6″ setback along Broadway and an eight-foot setback along narrower Franklin Street. The purposefully shorter-in-height first floor is skillfully hidden away from passersby by the existing building’s grand cornice. From street level, the taller second story appears as a natural extension of the cast iron building, echoing its window bays and matching the height of the Broadway pediment by way of mirage.

Eleven palatial duplexes with private elevator entry are spread throughout the existing building, each with cathedral-like living spaces and ceiling heights up to 25 feet. The removed floor area below is reintroduced as two telescoping glass-walled penthouses. One will be a 3,800-square-foot, four-bedroom spread and the other will have five bedrooms spanning 4,560 square feet. The first level of each penthouse features Ban’s trademark moveable glass walls that completely unfurl to provide uninterrupted expanses between interiors and accompanying private terraces. Both units will feature over 1,400 square feet of private outdoor space, open layouts, and massive master bedroom suites.

Two sixth-floor homes are currently available in the building. Unit 6A is a 4,250-square-foot, five-bedroom priced at $10.55 million, and Unit 6B is a 3,783-square-foot, four-bedroom asking $8.45 million.

Despite its boutique size, the building will provide a full package of amenities, which include a 24-hour doorman and concierge, fitness center, dance/yoga studio, hydrotherapy spa, children’s playroom, private storage, bicycle storage, and a landscaped courtyard with a green wall and fountain. The ground floor will host a retail space. The project is slated for completion early next year.

Compared to the more established blocks of western Tribeca, the project’s area of lower Broadway south of Canal Street is still coming of age and has nearly a dozen residential buildings in varying stages of development. According to CityRealty, the average closing price of a condominium in Tribeca reached a record $2,038 per square foot last month, nearly 21 percent higher than the $1,609 per square foot posted last year. In addition, the 264 condos currently on the market in the neighborhood are asking a median of $2,227 per square foot. Nearby, the El Ad Group is finishing construction of Five Franklin Place where the 24 closings recorded so far have averaged $2,023 per square foot.

View listings for the Cast Iron House at CityRealty.

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Two Bridges, the area on the border of the Lower East Side and Chinatown, is seeing a wave of new, sky-high development, including a 900-foot tower from supertall team JDS and SHoP Architects and perhaps two 50-story buildings from L+M Partners. But the controversial surge in construction started with One Manhattan Square, an 850-foot tower from Extell. In anticipation of the 80-story condo building hitting the market this September, the developer has released a flashy new video that shows the sparkling Adamson Associates Architects-designed exterior, as well as the sweeping views from the upper floors. But as Curbed, who first spotted the video, notes, it ignores its potential supertall neighbors to make a point of just how much much it towers over its surroundings.

According to a recent report from CityRealty, One Manhattan Square, of new Manhattan developments, has the third-highest anticipated sellout at $1.9 billion. When completed, its 815 units will make it the second-largest condo building ever constructed in Manhattan. Asking prices will be relatively affordable, ranging from $1 to $3 million. They’re currently being marketed to overseas Asian buyers, hence the video that touts those characteristically New York views and glassy facade, and the entire project is expected to be completed by 2019.

View future lists at CityRealty, and see official renderings of the project here.

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Video by River Film/Wordsearch

Hilton Worldwide Holdings, who had owned the landmarked Waldorf Astoria since 1972, agreed in October 2014 to sell the 1,413-room hotel to Beijing-based financial and insurance company Anbang Insurance Group for $1.95 billion. The deal closed the following February, along with plans from the new owners to convert part of the Art Deco building into luxury condos, and now the Wall Street Journal brings additional details on the conversion.

The overhaul, which could close the property for up to three years and cost upwards of $1 billion, would convert as many as 1,100 hotel rooms to condos, with the hotel portion featuring between 300 and 500 luxury guest rooms. Currently, the hotel employs about 1,500 people, but this major decline in hotel rooms will eliminate hundreds of jobs. Sources say Anbang and Hilton have already reached severance agreements totaling at least $100 million.

Currently, the 47-story building is divided into two sections. The actual Waldorf Astoria is a 1,232-room hotel, and the Waldorf Towers is a more high-end section with 181 hotel rooms and short-term rentals. The latter has its own entrance and elevator bank on 50th Street. Though there’s been no hints of pricing, a 2014 report from Morgan Stanley hotel analyst Thomas Allen said that a condo conversion at the Waldorf could fetch up to $4 billion in sales. Last year, the City Council passed a bill that no hotels with more than 150 units could have over 20 percent of their area converted to residential use for two years. But since the Waldorf sale went through prior, it’s exempt.

[Via WSJ]

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For those longing for Hamptons serenity without leaving Manhattan, Isay Weinfeld has designed a condominium for you. Sales officially kicked-off last week for the Brazilian architect’s first New York commission, which has aptly been named Jardim for its leafy oasis in the heart of hard-edged West Chelsea. The homes are divided among two 11-story fraternal buildings that come dressed in a textually rich skin of cast-concrete interrupted by elongated ribbons of glass.

Thirty-six light-filled homes frame the lushly planted, multi-level courtyard designed by Future Green Studio. And like all Manhattan real estate surrounding coveted greenery, the units come at a premium. Asking prices for the three currently available homes stand at $2,475 per square foot, according to CityRealty. The lowest priced abode is a 2,218-square-foot three-bedroom on the fourth floor going for $4.25 million; another three-bedroom on the third floor has an ask of $4.25 million; and a four-bedroom on the seventh floor has an ask of $7.55 million.

Renderings created by VUW Studio

Homes are large and airy with many featuring both north and south exposures, formal entry galleries, and panoramic windows providing views of the post-industrial cityscape and glimpses of the High Line. Private outdoor spaces are seamlessly accessed via sliding pocket doors. An interior palette of earth-toned materials including smoked oak, marble, brass and limestone—all selected by Weinfeld—allows the architecture to fall to the background. Kitchens with center islands are equipped with Gaggeneau appliances, and double-sink master bathrooms feature lava stone counter tops, grooved wood vanities, and lacquered brass fixtures.

A partnership between Centaur Properties and Greyscale Development Group yielded the 95,000-square-foot through-block lot at 525 West 27th Street. The site formerly held the Pink Elephant nightclub and now partially shoulders 520 West 28th Street, designed by late architect Zaha Hadid. Construction is due to wrap up near the end of 2017, and recently a bit of concrete wall has started to peer over the ubiquitous green-colored construction fence. Sadly, the lot will only grow more formidable, as the buildings’ street-level face is a concrete wall punctured by a few private entrances and a vaulted private driveway. For the rest of us, the world’s longest queue, the High Line, is just down the block.

Find Jardim’s currently available listings at CityRealty.

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Hello Living is extending their Bauhaus-inspired magic deeper into Brooklyn with their latest project Hello Albermarle. It rises from a former parking lot located near the renewed Loew’s Kings Theatre and another upcoming high-rise development by the firm Hello Nostrand. Now having ascended four floors out of its concrete pit, the 44-unit condominium tower will ultimately tower 12 stories and 140 feet over its cozy Flatbush community.

Zambrano Architectural Design penned the vertical stack of floor-through, one- and two-bedroom residences. The south-facing exterior is enlivened by sections of balcony walls that angle inwards and outwards. The building is setback nearly 30 feet from the street, providing a small driveway at its front and allowing the tower to stack the useable floor area upwards to capture sweeping views of Prospect Park, Brooklyn, and the Manhattan skyline. Like many mid-block, larger-than-their-context developments, the lot line elevations are mostly blank, presenting an austere face to its neighborhood.

According to a brochure from 2014, Hello Living estimates the units will command between $600-$800 per square foot and rent for over $40 per square foot. Building amenities will include a fitness center, private terraces, private-keyed elevators and a 15-year tax abatement. The Eli Karp-led firm has built a cluster of Hellos in Prospect Heights and Crown Heights and have carried their trademark avant-garde-on-a-budget aesthetic throughout, articulating exteriors with private outdoor spaces and circulation corridors and staircases.

Find future listings for Hello Albermarle on CityRealty.

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Co-developers Kuafu Properties and SCG America have fully launched their website marketing 151 Jamie Drake-designed condos called Manhattan View. For those in search of an upscale home in Midtown West, it’s unlikely that Manhattan View can escape your radar for long. The residences are perched on 13 floors atop the Arquitectonica-designed MiMA Tower at 460 West 42nd Street, and the exclusive collection of apartments will provide richly appointed amenities and far-reaching views of the city and waterways. The new website leads with a fun and quirky film of the building that tours its apartments and amenities and grants a view of the lifestyle it hopes to provide its residents.

The film features a trio of individuals who wake up to views of the Empire State Building from 500 feet up in their high-rise home. After a quick breakfast, hints of a love-triangle emerge, and the group begins dancing and snapping their way through their apartment and the building’s many amenities.

Aside from the fun rouse, the main focus of the film is the city being at the residents’ doorstep and the expansive views and amenities provided to residents. The new website showcases the views at three different times of day: daytime, evening, and night through an interactive tool.

Interior photo by Emily Gilbert

Emily Gilbert

Emily Gilbert

Emily Gilbert

Available homes range from studios starting at $1.39 million, one-bedrooms at $1.68 million, two-bedrooms at $3.49 million, and three-bedrooms at $4.86 million. Designed by Jamie Drake, the interiors feature beautiful wide-plank oak wood floors, ceilings up to 12 feet, and floor-to-ceiling windows. The residences achieve an inviting and elegant feel throughout, with kitchens boasting high gloss lacquer cabinetry and Gaggenau appliances, as well as master bathrooms with polished white Carrara marble floors and Calacatta marble glass enclosed showers.

Find listings for Manhattan View at MiMA on CityRealty.

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Here’s your rare opportunity to purchase a NYC condominium in an upscale building for a fraction of market-rate prices. The developers of Clinton Hill‘s under-construction condo Waverly Brooklyn are now accepting applications for 11 subsidized homes priced as low as $156,444. Qualified applicants have a chance to purchase the deal of a lifetime with studio, one- and two-bedroom homes priced 86-percent below the neighborhood’s market-rate medians. The condos are available to households earning between $32,617 to $48,923.

To grasp what a fantastic deal this is, the sole studio unit with an estimated price of $156,000, is priced at a 74 percent discount when compared to currently available studio condos in Clinton Hill, for which the median is $597,000 according to data from CityRealty. Four one-bedroom homes will be priced between $165,283 and $252,330, a 63-76 percent discount. And six two-bedroom units will be $163,577 and $179,691, an 82-84 percent discount from Clinton Hill median prices.

Like the building’s 37 other market-rate residences, selected buyers will share an amenity package that includes a uniformed lobby attendant, reception seating area and package room, resident lounge with library, media center and kitchenette, resident terrace with gas grills and communal dining area, rooftop garden with outdoor shower and skyline views, a fitness center, bicycle storage (for a fee), on-site parking (for sale), and private storage (for purchase).

According to the advertisement, eligible applicants need not be first time homeowners, but should be able to put down at least 10 percent of the unit’s purchase price. It is also emphasized that the home must be used as the buyer’s primary residence. As per the ad, “Completed applications must be returned by regular mail only (no priority, certified, registered, express, oversized, or overnight mail will be accepted) to a post office box number that will be listed on the application, and must be postmarked by September 6, 2016.” As is the case with most city sponsored lottery programs, preference will be given to New York City residents. Brooklyn’s Community Board 2 will be provided a preference for 50 percent of the units and municipal employees, 5 percent.

Waverly Brooklyn is located at 500 Waverly Avenue at the southwest corner of Fulton Street near the Clinton-Washington subway stop of the C train. The project is being constructed partly through the now expired 421-a program, which provided developers Orange Management tax breaks in lieu of providing the subsidized units.

Construction shot from last week, via 6sqft

Gerner Kronick + Valcarcel are the architects, and in March, as 6sqft reported, the seven-story concrete structure topped out. Now its modern exterior composed of frames of hand-laid Norman brick and multi-paned windows is being installed. MNS is handling the sales of the market-rate units with current asking prices averaging $1,202 per square foot and starting at $595,000 for studios, $790,000 for one-bedrooms, $1.235 million for two bedrooms, and $1.625 million for three-bedrooms.

Applications and instructions can be downloaded here >>

Questions regarding this offer should be referred to Emily McIntosh, Assistant Director of Homeownership Education at 646-217-3392.

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Circa Central Park, Harlem’s most anticipated condominium project is currently is offering ten lucky households a chance to buy an affordable new unit within the high-end, curving building. Crescent 110 Equities is spearheading the lottery program, and occupancy of the development is set to begin in 2017. The available apartments range from $225, 294 studios to $381,105 two-bedrooms.

Chosen applicants will share in the building’s lavish amenities, which include a 24-hour doorman, roof deck, dog washing and grooming station, fitness center, children’s playroom, residents’ lounge, storage, garage with electric car charging, live-in superintendent, courtyard, and a study room with computers and game stations.

The 11-story building will contain 51 units in all and is being developed by Artimus Construction and designed by FXFOWLE Architects. Its location at 2040 Frederick Douglass Boulevard (aka 285 West 110th Street) is atop the Central Park North C-train station and within walking distance to the 1,2, and 3 subway lines.

Construction shot via 6sqft

Earlier this week, CityRealty reported that its Frederick Douglass Circle-hugging frontage is now getting glassed.

Currently available market rate units are priced from $2.995 million for a third-floor three-bedroom to $8.744 million for a sprawling ninth-floor five-bedroom.

Completed applications for the affordable condos will be accepted from now through July 26, 2016. Eligible buyers should have 10 percent of the asking price available for a down payment and they must plan to occupy the condo as their primary residence. Any prospective applicant who currently owns or previously has owned a residence under a governmentally assisted project or program is ineligible. Income requirements for the lottery are outlined in the table above.

Applications and instructions can be downloaded here >>

Questions regarding this offer should be referred to Emily McIntosh, Assistant Director of Homeownership Education at 646-217-3392.

View market-rate availabilities for Circa at CityRealty.

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Renderings via FXFowle Architects | Town Residential

Gary Barnett’s Extell Development has become synonymous with sky-high towers, especially those along Billionaires’ Row — the 1,005-foot-tall One57 and the 1,550-foot-tall Central Park Tower — where it appeared that they were readying to construct a third behemoth that would rise more than 700 feet. However, Crain’s reports that Extell has filed plans for the site at 134 West 58th Street (the same block as One57), and they call for a stubby, 18-story, 41-unit condo building that’s less than 200 feet tall.

Google Earth rendering of 134 West 58th Street rising 700 feet, courtesy of CityRealty

Extell bought the 17-story apartment building at the 58th Street address in 2008 for $39 million. Since 2014, they were also working to acquire the Calvary Baptist Church’s sanctuary and the Hotel Salisbury, which back up to site and are worth at least $100 million. Along with these buildings, as well as development rights left over from One57 and more purchased from Calvary, a new building could have risen more than 700 feet.

Last month, the developer put in applications to end some rent-stabilized leases in the current building. One of these tenants, Richard Miller, said to Crain’s: “Are they filing these plans for just this one building, or is this a plot to push negotiations with the church? People keep saying that the high-end real estate market has tanked, so maybe they are going to wait—it’s hard to know.”

It should be noted, however, that during negotiations with Vornado Realty Trust, Extell filed permits to build an 18-story, 58-unit building on a parcel of land that’s now part of 220 Central Park South. Extell used the parcel as a bargaining chip to coerce Vornado to move the tower portion of 220 CPS west so Extell’s Central Park Tower behind could also garner coveted views of Central Park.

[Via Crain's]

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Image of 134 West 58th Street via NY Yimby

At the beginning of June, 6sqft reported that the Moinian Group would be moving ahead with a project at 220 Eleventh Avenue in Chelsea that they had collaborated on over a year ago with the late Zaha Hadid. This is located just three blocks away from the starchitect’s only other New York Commission at 520 West 28th Street along the High Line.

At the time, the developer announced that the new building will be “a collection of signature loft-like condominium residences, a collection of penthouses and a cultural institution to establish itself as the hub of the world renowned art district that is West Chelsea.” Yimby has now revealed that Moinian filed official permits for the 11-story structure, which will boast 40 large condos, a museum, and a restaurant.

Google Street View of the site of 220 Eleventh Avenue

The Moinian Group bought the site, which fronts the entire block between 25th and 26th Streets, in 2002 for an undisclosed sum, and in may 2015, closed on a $361 bond. Filings from SLCE Architects (Hadid’s firm is based in London and is thereofore working with these New York-based architects) show that it will rise 145 feet and encompass 158,000 square feet. The museum will take up 23,372 square feet on the first floor and cellar, and the restaurant will be located in portions of the first and second floors. The second floor will also house amenities, such as a lounge, exercise room, pool, and steam room. Residences will begin on the third floor with a generous average size of 3,034 square feet.

Though no rendering was put out, the earlier press release hinted that Hadid had “translated Manhattan’s powerful geometries and rhythms… integrating the city’s unyielding spirit and distinctive vernacular with the finely-detailed craftsmanship of her acclaimed jewelry collaborations.”

Specific details related to the museum and restaurant moving in are not yet known, but construction is expected to begin in 2017, with sales launching later that same year. Find future listings for 220 Eleventh Avenue on CityRealty.com.

[Via NY Yimby]

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Though Essex Crossing will bring 1.65 million square feet of residential, community, and commercial space to the Lower East Side, only one of the 10 sites will offer condos–242 Broome Street. Located at Site One, the SHoP Architects-designed tower is currently getting its foundation poured, and along with this groundbreaking comes a sales website with new details on the project, reports CityRealty.com.

The 14-story building will have a five-story base to house retail and commercial tenants and a bowling alley from Splitsville Luxury Lanes. On the fifth floor will be a cultural space (the Andy Warhol Museum previously planned to open an outpost here) and rooftop sculpture garden. Above will be 55 one- to three-bedroom condos, 11 of which will be affordable. Tentative pricing for the market-rate units ranges from $1,275,000 to $7,000,000, according to the latest edition of Elliman Magazine (the brokerage will be handling sales).

SHoP’s tower twists westward at its upper floors to maximize light and views. Its facade is composed of champagne-colored aluminum. DXA Studio is taking on the interior design, where they say they’ll incorporate slab marble, blackened steel, and warm woods.

Foundation work at the site of 242 Broome Street, via CityRealty.com

Amenities will include a 24-hour doorman, fitness center, bike storage, rooftop terrace, and an entertainment lounge with a kitchen and game area.

SHoP is also responsible for Essex Crossing’s massive market called Market Line. As 6sqft previously reported, “the bi-level space… will cover 150,000 square feet and connect three sites along Broome Street (including 242 Broome). It will be a foodie/retail promenade with a floating garden, beer hall, galleries, tech incubators, and, according to renderings, an outpost of Smorgasburg.”

Sales at 242 Broome Street are expected to launch this fall. Find future listings .

[Via CityRealty.com]

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Renderings via SHoP Architects

As 6sqft previously reported, “thirty-eight years after the publication of his acclaimed book ‘Delirious New York,’ Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and his global architecture firm the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA)… have finally landed their first ground-up New York City commission.” And now, CityRealty.com has uncovered the first official renderings of the two-towered condo development, located at 122 East 23rd Street in Gramercy.

The Pritzker Prize winner has designed a crystalline glass and concrete facade with a chiseled corner on the north building that exposes its glass edges. In between the two buildings will be a courtyard surrounded by private apartment terraces. The courtyard will lead into a pool area, children’s play area, and screening and party rooms on the building’s lower levels. There will also be a robotic parking system that brings cars to underground storage.

Spearheaded by Toll Brothers, the project has an estimated value of $134 million. It will encompass 275,000 square feet of floor area, seek LEED certification, and have 136 condos. Excavation work is currently underway and completion is planned for 2018. Find future listings at 122 East 23rd Street here.

[Via CityRealty.com]

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It was all the way back in November 2015 that 6sqft got a first look at Bjarke Ingels‘ pair of asymmetric, twisting towers along the High Line at 76 Eleventh Avenue. At the beginning of this year, the design changed to a simpler silhouette with more space in between the 28- and 38-story buildings, and now NY Yimby has revealed yet another group of renderings that reveal even more revisions.

The fresh images reveal the glass crowns at the 300- and 400-foot tops, the retail podium and plaza fronting the High Line, and two amenity-filled podium bridges that will connect the towers (an idea perhaps borrowed from SHoP’s American Cooper Buildings).

In total, there will be 85,000 square feet of retail space. The rest of the 800,000 square feet will be occupied by 130 hotel rooms and 260 condos.

The aforementioned sky bridge at the American Copper Buildings will be the first of its kind in the city, and though Bjarke’s pair are much closer to the ground they do employ a similar amenity concept.

Developer HFZ Capital bought the block-long Meatpacking District site for $870 million in April of 2014. As CityRealty.com reports, groundwork has already begun, but “excavation and foundation work will likely take several months to a year due to the site being located on Hudson River landfill. Completion is currently set for 2018. Be the first to see listings for 76 11th Avenue here.

[Via NY Yimby]

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Renderings © Bjarke Ingels Group

In April, initial details were released about Downtown Brooklyn‘s Macy’s $100 million interior makeover, which included new columns, fluted ceilings, metal and glass entrance canopies, and video screens surrounding the escalators. This came after Tishman Speyer inked a $170 million deal with the department store in January, in which they’ll remodel the 11-story Art Deco building’s top five floors into offices. As part of the deal, Tishman also took control of the connecting Hoyt Street parking garage, a site that was speculated may give way to a supertall, mixed-use tower. Today, CityRealty.com posted a set of renderings from architecture firm LEESER showing a glassy tower rising from the existing department store. Although it is not the design being considered by Tishman Speyer, it does give us a taste of the type of modern development that could climb from the coveted DoBro address.

The current site via Google Maps

For the Fulton Street site, the LESSER devised a 910-foot, 80-story tower that would rise atop the 1865 Macy’s building, along with two glassy 390-foot high rises for the garage site. The 1.2 million-square-foot main tower would have 230 condos and 468 rentals, while the towers to the east would have 248 condos, 308 rentals, 200,000 square feet of retail space, and a public plaza.

LESSER’s design would preserve Macy’s existing Art Deco-style facade and allow the store to remain open during construction, which would have been welcome news considering the company recently announced it will be closing 100 of its 675 department stores across the country.

Officially, work on the existing structure is expected to be completed by the fall of 2018; no word yet on what the design to follow will be.

EDITOR’S NOTE: A previous version of this story incorrectly reported that LESSER’s design was chosen for the Macy’s site. Reps for Tishman Speyer have informed us that this design was not commissioned by the development team, nor is it being considered.

[Via CityRealty.com]

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All renderings courtesy of LEESER