BFC Partners’ proposal calls for 160 co-op units. On February 13, 2008, the Planning Commission approved an application to construct a housing project in the Stapleton neighborhood of Staten Island. The Department of Housing Preservation and Development submitted the application on behalf of developer BFC Partners. The application calls for two, five-story, mixed-use buildings with 160 residential units to be located just west of the area that the New York City Economic Development Corporation plans … <Read More>
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EDC seeks developers for former Navy Homeport
Sites include residential developments, farmers’ market, sports complex and hotel. The New York City Economic Development Corporation issued three requests for proposals seeking developers for projects on Staten Island’s northeastern shore.
The sites are located along Front Street in Homeport, the former U.S. Navy facility in the Stapleton section of Staten Island.
The three new RFPs are part of the first phase of development under the New Stapleton Waterfront Development Plan. 3 CityLand 149 (Nov. … <Read More>
Landmarks approves two individual landmarks
The Morse Building, lower Manhattan; the Staten Island Savings Bank, S.I. Landmarks unanimously designated the two new individual landmarks on September 19, 2006. The crimson red and black brick terra cotta Morse Building, located at Nassau and Beekman Streets in lower Manhattan, was the city’s tallest building when constructed in 1880. Built by two nephews of Samuel Morse, the inventor of the electric telegraph, the building originally contained office space but was converted in 1980 … <Read More>