There are now new permits on file for a 25-story residential building, including inclusive housing, at the corner under the address 56 Great Jones St.
There are two versions of the new building — one with a cantilevered extension to the north, the other without it.
The non-cantilver version would feature 94 total residential units, including 27 MIH apartments. The cantiliver edition would have three more MIH units, for a total of 30.
Typical clean and pleasing design from Fogarty Finger.
more like the middle finger to classic NY
The building looks nice, but will miss that little quirky market on that lot with the little Tokyo-esque alleyway and shops.
In this particular case, I might just barely side with building the larger building here. But usually I side with the more finely grained urbanism, more than the average urbanist on here, even when it’s in lieu of a much larger urban structures.
This is what would be lost:
Considering the junk across the street it could be worse.
That’s great to know!! 
Cantilever or not, the new development is very attractive. What I cannot believe, or understand, is why two leaning and dilapidated old crappy buildings are being saved here, landmark district or not. These two buildings should have been demolished and the new corner building built without a cantilever allowing a new sliver building in the future.
This I’ll remind everyone while dozens of handsome prewar buildings get mutilated every year by the Local Law 11 compliance death squads.
But priorities right?
