It will certainly look better when they build out the park along 10th Avenue.
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LPC OKs church-to-residential conversion - WoW.
That is what I call a real ‘spiritual reincarnation’ - 
Nice project; and great posts always from ABOT……thanks.
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George Makkos, who owns a string of mixed-use properties on Ninth Avenue near Hudson Yards, was poised to sell the 6-story building at 349 W. 37th St. to Shahn Anderson, chief ideas technologist at the start-up Stealth Deeptech Company, in the fall of 2024. However, Makkos then accused Andersen of “breach of contract” and entered into a deal with a third party to sell the property, records show.
Anderson and Makkos — whose family business M&T Pretzel once had a lock on nearly every food cart in Central Park — had entered into a contract for the property on Oct. 28, 2024, with Anderson providing a $500,000 down payment. As part of the deal, Anderson would also acquire the adjacent site at 353 W. 37th St., currently home to a parking lot.
Paul Goetz, the Manhattan Supreme Court judge overseeing the case, ruled in Anderson’s favor on March 4.
Anderson told Crain’s in an email Thursday that he is “pleased with the court’s decisions” and intends to proceed with his purchase of the property, located between Eighth and Ninth avenues. He plans to turn it into a 24-story mixed-use building that will be primarily residential, although he is not sure whether the units will be rentals or condos.
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I saw this yesterday: and very impressed with the architectural design. There is texture, pattern, curves, shadows, depth, color, and a fabulous form factor. Most impressive (to me) is all that visual opulence was done in a ‘modernist’ architectural design.
Classical/Traditional architectural always has all those robust features with depth and rich visual appeal: but, not so much so with new buildings done in the modernist architectural design style.
I think this facade is made entirely of metal panels; at first glance I thought is was some sort of prefabricated stone. Not sure - the material looks solid and high quality.
This one is very well done; and too bad it did not get it’s very own thread…
BTW. This article is particularly relevant to some of the points I am making here. How We Made Beauty Expensive in Real Estate
forgot about this guy ohhh he looks good
613 11th Avenue
Extell Development is laying the groundwork to wipe out the eastern half of a Hell’s Kitchen block, a move that could erase a stretch of low-rise storefronts, auto shops and a longtime lumber yard on Manhattan’s far West Side. The filings cover the 11th Avenue frontage between West 45th and West 46th Streets, setting up one of the largest proposed clearances the neighborhood has seen in recent years.
Public records and permitting data reviewed by PincusCoshow the applications were submitted with Extell executive David Rothstein listed as the contact. The cluster of full-demolition filings amounts to roughly 14 jobs spread over seven tax lots and covers about 100,000 square feet of existing building area.
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Demolition for something big?
It looks like a Gaudi building in a contemporary, futuristic way.
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It’s for that
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Permits Filed For 459 East Tremont Avenue In Tremont, The Bronx
459 East Tremont Avenue in Tremont, The Bronx via Google Maps
BY: VANESSA LONDONO 6:30 AM ON MARCH 9, 2026
Permits have been filed for a four-story mixed-use building at 459 East Tremont Avenue in Tremont, The Bronx. Located between Washington and Park Avenues, the interior lot is closest to the Tremont subway station, served by the B and D trains. Joseph Atarien of Atari Realty is listed as the owner behind the applications.
The proposed 50-foot-tall development will yield 5,482 square feet, with 5,131 square feet designated for residential space and 350 square feet for commercial space. The building will have seven residences, most likely rentals based on the average unit scope of 733 square feet. The steel-based structure will also have a cellar, penthouse, and a 30-foot-long rear yard.
Gerald Caliendo Architects is listed as the architect of record.
Demolition permits will likely not be needed as the lot is vacant. An estimated completion date has not been announced.
Next we need to open a new thread for that planned doghouse around the corner …
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I don’t think they planned a doghouse.
We have a dedicated thread for such projects and many others:
Lowrise General Development.
You can do that, but it ends up cluttering up our forum with low-quality projects.
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Sorry
That, and we should post the permits for the hot dog stands
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As Yakov Smirnoff used to say, “In Soviet Russia we don’t eat this part of the dog.”
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Moved to low rise section.
Yeah low rises, dog sheds, barbie houses… keep in this thread. If we were to make a thread for every low rise being built, would crash the server. Unless its an exceptional low-rise, and not one lost in the galaxy.
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