Elegran Realtors: Harlem Victoria Wins Redevelopment Victory
Ariel Aufgang clearly aims to make Harlem the "center of attention" with his $143 million proposal for the Victoria Theater project... Read More
View ArticleHospitality Design: Hotel Planed for Harlem
Danforth Development Partners is planning to build a new full-service hotel and apartment building in Harlem, according to GlobeSt.com. Two 26-story towers will sit atop the historic Victoria Theater,...
View ArticleBuilding Construction and Design: Preservation a High Priority on $143...
A $143 million commercial development project to be built above the historic Victoria Theater in New York City's Harlem neighborhood will preserve many of the landmark's design elements.... Read More
View ArticleSurge of Energy; Solutions Sought to Avoid Future Storm Havoc
Property owners and goverment officials are working overtime to fix buildings affected by Sandy ad to find ways to avoid or mitigate flooding issues i the future... Read More
View ArticleBuzz Buzz Home: ew Seven-Story Building to Replace Former Church at 424 West...
Ariel Aufgang has been busy in Midtown West, with new projects at 444 10th Avenue and 411 West 35th Street. Now, he's the architect of record for a new seven-story, 17-unit building at 424 West 55th...
View ArticleReal Estate Weekly: Hotel Developers Checking Out West Side Before Frontiers...
The Hudson Yards haven't even been built yet, but they are already fueling hotel development on the Far West Side... Read More
View ArticleBrooklyn Daily Eagle: Landmarks Preservation Commission Approves 200 Water...
Developer Shelly Listokin's plans to turn a former DUMBO Watchtower building into condos have cleared a significant hurdle - by winning city Landmarks Preservation Commission approval to add two floors...
View ArticleDNA Info: Luxury High-Rise Building with Doorman Replacing Fourth Ave. Row...
A residential high-rise will replace a half-dozen modest row houses on 11th Street and Fourth Avenue, the developers announced. Slate Property Group, Adam America Real Estate Group, and Naveh Shuster...
View ArticleThe Real Deal: New Buildings Rise in Bushwick, Ridgewood
As rents in Brooklyn rise, families are pushed further out to the periphery of the borough. Now, two buildings - one on each side of the border between Bushwick, Brooklyn and Ridgewood, Queens - are...
View ArticleCurbed: New Projects in Bushwick, Ridgewood May Lure with Dog Runs
"The neighborhood is kind of bifurcated between manufacturing and single-family houses," Aufgang told Crain's, "and our approach was to have a contextually sensitive design." Resulting are two...
View ArticleCrain's New York: Upscale Apartments to Land in Gritty Bushwick
A pair of residential buildings along the border with Ridgewood will offer not just high-end amenities, but larger units suitable for the young families moving into the area after being priced out of...
View ArticleBrownstoner Queens: Luxury Rentals and a Production Studio Planned for Ridgewood
We're a little late to this news, but last week the architect Ariel Aufgang announced two upscale projects for Ridgewood and Bushwick. The 88-unit rental development is planned for 176 Woodward Avenue,...
View ArticleQueens Courrier: Upscale Residential Building Coming to Ridgewood
A new, upscale residential building with various amenities, including a rooftop dog run, is coming to Ridgewood soon... Read More
View ArticleQueens Forum: CB5 Green Lights Ridgewood Residential Development
Community Board 5 voted in favor of rezoning part of Ridgewood to make way for an upscale residential development, but not without a heated debate first... Read More
View ArticleCurbed: Not So Affordable Housing Coming to 272 Manhattan Avenue
Even with on-site signage and a new teaser website, 272 Manhattan Avenue in Harlem, not known as 272 MA, remains mysterious. The building changed hands, according to public records, from the Department...
View ArticleNY YIMBY Revealed: 424 West 55th Street
With the church-like whitewashed brick theater now gone, an excavator has made an appearance at 424 West 55th Street, as has an on-site rendering. As YIMBY previously reported, a seven-story, 17-unit...
View ArticleCurbed: Small 12-Story Structure to Replace Church on West 55th St.
The building is coming to the former site of a white brick church and theater at 424 West 55th Street. The lot between Ninth and Tenth avenues is being developed by Arker Companies who will include an...
View ArticleThe New York Times - Dumbo Roars: Transforming Dumbo, a Brooklyn...
Not all that long ago, before the Brooklyn waterfron became a must-do on seemingly every tourist's list, Dumbo's converted warehouses and Belgian-block streets were inhabited by artists and young...
View ArticleUptowner: Developer Sets Sights High for Victoria Theater
The Victoria Theater on West 125th Street looks desolate and abandoned while many neighboring buildings transform into retail businesses. The almost century-old theater, part of what once was known as...
View ArticleNY Daily News: Harlem's Legendary Victoria Theater Set to be Transformed into...
Plans to transform Harlem's legendary Victoria Theater have been floating around for years, but state officials said Wednesday that work will begin by mid-2015. The sprawling complex will include a...
View ArticleCurbed: Is Harlem's Victoria Conversion Actually Happening?
The announcement has been made before (not just once, twice, or even three times), so Wedneday's decalration by state officials that work will begin in mid-2015 on transforming Harlem's Victoria...
View ArticleThe Real Deal: Slate, RWN Grab Former School of Visual Arts Dorm for $26M
Slate Property Group and RWN Real Estate Partners, the private equity arm of Ari Shalam's RWN Management, jointly acquired the vacant, 5-floor residential component of a six-story East Village...
View ArticleInterview with Ariel Aufgang: "Sustainabilty with a Light Touch"
I grew up, and still live and work in Rockland County, a north-western New York City suburb. So when Ariel Aufgang, principal of Aufgang Architects, called me to inquire about our exterior shading...
View ArticleNYREJ: Aufgang Architects - Adaptive Reuse Has Growing Role in New York's...
New York, NY Adaptive reuse may be traced back to our cave-dwelling ancestors, who re-arranged rocks and drew their own pictures over cave wall decorations they found after evicting the previous human...
View ArticleThe Real Deal: Developer does end run around land costs
Slate Property Group will the share risks and rewards of building a 110-unit apartment building in Clinton Hill with the property's longtime owner. Similar deals are in the works. Read More
View ArticleCrain's New York: Slate aims to dodge soaring land costs with Clinton Hill...
Developer partners with owner of the Key Foods store at 325 Lafayette Ave. Slate Property Group is partnering with the owner of the site of a Key Food in Clinton Hill in an effort to develop a 114-unit...
View ArticleCurbed: East Harlem Building Boom Continues WIth 26 New Apartments
Although permits were filed for this eight-story apartment building in East Harlem way back in 2007, the project has just started to rise out of the recession gutter... Read More
View ArticleNY YIMBY Revealed: 318 East 112th Street, East Harlem
Construction is starting to pick up in East Harlem, where YIMBY spotted a new rendering on the fence at 318 East 112th Street, between 1st and 2nd Avenues. Designed by Aufgang Architects, the...
View ArticleBrownstoner: Architect Ariel Aufgang on Adaptive Reuse and Converting a 1950s...
Aufgang Architects is known for its adaptive reuse of landmark buildings as well as affordable housing. The firm is based in Suffern, NY and works primarily in New York CIty. Aufgang Architects is...
View ArticleSenator Carlucci & Aufgang Architects Host "Roof Topping Ceremony"
Senator David Carlucci (D- Rockland/Westchester), Ariel Aufgang of Aufgang Architects, and Brooker Engineering hosted a "Roof Topping Ceremony" for SUffern Building Works, a commercial plaza that is...
View ArticleYIMBY's 2014 New Construction Report
As YIMBY’s readers must realize by now, 2014 was a banner year for filings in New York City. While supply still clearly falls short of demand, and prices remain at astronomical levels, permit activity...
View ArticleThe Real Deal: Eight Aufgang-Designed Buildings Nab 421-a Benefits
While the fate of the 421-a tax abatement is still unclear, some developers and architects have been scrambling to get their projects approved and off the ground before the program is set to expire...
View ArticleThe Real Deal: Expiration of 421-a Comes with an Uptick in Construction Permits
New York CIty developers caused an uptick in the Department of Building's approvals of construction permits as they scrambled before the expiration date of the 421-a tax abatement program. The program...
View ArticleThe Wall Street Journal: Developers Scramble for Expiring Tax Break
Just six days before the expiration of a lucrative tax break for real-estate developers, the New York City Department of Buildings issued a flurry of permits for the construction of a 40-story rental...
View ArticleTHE WALL STREET JOURNAL: In DUMBO, A Study in Industrial Chic
The former Brillo-pad factory at 200 Water St. is becoming a high-end condo.... Read More
View ArticleTHE NEW YORK POST: The Changes Coming to Harlem's 125th St Make it a Hot Spot
The 125th Street of Harlem mythology is fast disappearing. River to river, a whirlwind of new development, redevelopment, and "repositioning," is sweeping away old for the new... Read More
View ArticleGUIA CONSTRUCCION: BIG - MANHATTAN, UNA IDEA SIMPLE HASTA EL LIMITE
One of our talented Project Managers Adrian Menichelli is also a very talented writer. He is the author of regularly featured articles in the prominent South American construction publication, Guia...
View ArticleCOMMERCIAL PROPERTY EXECUTIVE: BACK TO THE FUTURE - CREATIVE PROJECTS GIVE...
Why go through the trouble and expense of transforming obsolete buildings for the 21st century, rather than starting from scratch? Today's developers are finding a host of reasons..... Read More
View ArticleNY YIMBY: New Developers to Build Five-Story, 130 Unit Residential Project at...
In October of 2015, YIMBY reported on applications for a five-story, 130 unit residential building at 1873 Starr Street in western Ridgewood, located five blocks from the Jefferson Street stop on the L...
View ArticleREAL ESTATE WEEKLY: New Development - DUMBO Draws Them In
Megalith Capital Management and Urban Realty Partners announced that 200 Water Street, a six-story boutique building in DUMBO, has more than 50% of its units in contract since its launch in September...
View ArticleCURBED: Tour the Model Apartment at DUMBO's Former Brillo Factory
Condo sales launched last September at 200 Water, a former Brillo Factory in DUMBO that belonged to the Jehovah's Witnesses before they old it off. The development team of Megalith Capital management...
View Article6SQFT: Live Off Columbus Circle for $1,146/Month, Lottery Launching for 17...
Two years ago, work began on a seven-story, 17-unit building at 424 West 55th Street, on the fringes of Hell's Kitchen and just south of Columbus Circle..... Read More
View Article6SQFT: Lotto Kicks Off for Four Affordable Apartments in Bushwick Building...
Starting Monday, NYC's Housing Connect will begin accepting applications for four brand new apartments located in an upscale, four-story, 20-unit apartmen complex at 83 Bushwick Place... Read More
View ArticleNY YIMBY: 12-Story, 186-Unit Mixed-Use Project Tops Out at 411 West 35th...
Construction has recently topped out on the 12-Story, 186-unit, mixed-use building under development at 411 West 35th Street located on the corner of Dyer Avenue in the Hudson Yards District.... Read...
View ArticleNY YIMBY: New Developer to Build 12-Story, 363-Unit Mixed-Use Building at 810...
RXR Realty has acquired, for $28.7 million, the leasehold of the development site at 810 Fulton Street, in southern Fort Greene, from GFI Development, Crain's reported..... Read More
View ArticleNY YIMBY: 15- Story, 75-Unit Affordable Mixed-Use Building Proposed at 2395...
Bronx-based JCAL Development Group has filed applications for a 15-story, 75-unit mixed-use building at 2395 Frederick Douglass Boulevard, located between West 128th and 129th streets in Harlem........
View ArticleMulti-Housing News: Brooklyn Affordable Housing Portfolio Set for Rehab
A portfolio of rent-regulated buildings located predominantly in Brooklyn is on track to be rehabilitated as part of an affordable housing preservation project... Read More Read More
View ArticleNYREJ: Aufgang Architects Selected to Design Interior Preservation of 377...
Aufgang Architects has been selected to design the interior rehabilitation of 377 affordable residential rental units in a portfolio of 34 buildings... Read More Read More
View ArticleCURBED: Harlem's Decade-Long Victoria Theater Redevelopment is Moving Forward
Over a decade after the planned redevelopment of Harlem's Victoria Theater was announced, the project is finally moving forward.... Read More Read More
View ArticleREFI: CREATIVE REUSE RISES AS BIG APPLE EXHAUSTS LAND, PROPERTIES
As the supply of land dwindles in New York, adaptive reuse is becoming an increasingly important strategy for commercial real estate owners... Read More Read More
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