Category : Construction & Design

City selects developers to build affordable homes for seniors
Construction & Design

City selects developers to build affordable homes for seniors

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The New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) and the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) have announced builders for 100 percent senior affordable housing in Brooklyn and The Bronx. Xenolith Partners, The Kretchmer Companies, ELH Mgmt., and the Jewish Association Serving the Aging (JASA) will build...
Developers unveils $340M bedroom community
Construction & Design

Developers unveils $340M bedroom community

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Eastone Equities, a New York City based real estate private equity firm, has announced the launch of Harrison Yards, a $340 million transit-oriented Class A mixed-use development in downtown Harrison, NY. The Harrison Yards project sits on two adjacent sites along Frank E, Rodgers Boulevard, right next to the recently...
Construction & Design

Comptoller offers BQE alternative, asks city to create truck thruway and parkland

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New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer has released an alternative approach for the rehabilitation of the triple-cantilevered section of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (BQE). Officials have said that if action is not taken to repair the crumbling highway, trucks will have to be re-routed by 2026 and a full closure...
Construction & Design

Comptoller offers BQE alternative, asks city to create truck thruway and parkland

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New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer has released an alternative approach for the rehabilitation of the triple-cantilevered section of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (BQE). Officials have said that if action is not taken to repair the crumbling highway, trucks will have to be re-routed by 2026 and a full closure...
Con Ed facing rap for gas safety lapse
Construction & Design

Con Ed facing rap for gas safety lapse

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The New York State Public Service Commission has ordered Consolidated Edison to explain why the Commission should not commence a penalty action after the utility failed to comply with the Commission’s gas safety rules related to gas infrastructure work in New York City. An investigation by the Department of Public...
Trade war could send construction prices north
Construction & Design

Trade war could send construction prices north

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The New York City real estate industry is counting the cost of the ongoing trade war with China, with building contractors adding between five to 10 percent onto total construction costs to mitigate the impact of tariffs on the prices of steel, aluminium and other materials, Turner & Townsend has...
Labor leaders join energy coalition to protest natural gas moratorium
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Labor leaders join energy coalition to protest natural gas moratorium

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Business and labor leaders from across the state turned out for the New Yorkers for Affordable Energy coalition forum focused on natural gas moratoriums in Westchester and Long Island. “The recent moratoriums announced for Westchester and Long Island are the canary in the coal mine for New York’s energy future....
Bulldozers make space for new Far Rockaway Village
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Bulldozers make space for new Far Rockaway Village

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The has-been Far Rockaway strip mall in Queens has been demolished to make way for a large-scale mixed-use affordable housing development. The city Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) Commissioner Maria Torres-Springer and Housing Development Corporation (HDC) president Eric Enderlin joined council member Donovan Richards and development partner Phipps...