Three years after New York legalized micro-mobility bikes and scooters, lawmakers and building managers are grappling with how to make them safer, after numerous fires, some fatal.

"My colleagues and I have worked to eliminate on-site fossil fuel use in designing projects for many years. Solar arrays are now standard on multifamily buildings where roofs aren’t used for recreation. These renewable energy initiatives actually started in response to the delays and headaches of getting new gas service hookups. More recently we are seeing utility companies upgrading their grids to help meet the demand of fully electrified new buildings. Other applicable technology includes heat pumps, once considered an expensive luxury, but are increasingly commonplace, as well as the convenience and comfort of room specific temperature controls that outweigh any esthetic issues of such systems," Aufgang pointed out.

Aufgang Architects, LLC, a Suffern-based architectural firm, has created a new team that provides building owners and developers with evaluations and recommendations to help them save money by improving systems and energy efficiency

The proposed building will top out at 135 feet and contain 307,388 total square feet. The residential component will occupy the majority of the building at 181,912 square feet. When complete, the building will house 213 apartments including 64 permanently affordable units reserved for households at or below 80 percent area median income. The residential component is expected to house 571 occupants.

The proposed 75-foot-tall development will yield 216,941 square feet, with 154,892 square feet designated for residential space, 16,059 square feet for commercial space, and 2,160 square feet of community facility space.

This development will benefit the Central Harlem community for generations to come, with more than 130 homes for low-income and formerly homeless seniors, more than a third of which are permanently affordable

Camber Property Group announced the official opening of Victory Plaza, a 136-unit affordable housing development in Central Harlem featuring 81 units set aside for low-income seniors and 55 homes for formerly homeless seniors.

Camber Property Group has launched Victory Plaza, a 136-unit fully affordable property in New York City’s Central Harlem neighborhood. The nine-story building offers 81 apartments for low income seniors, the remaining 55 catering to formerly homeless seniors.

“A truly equitable city requires us to build dignified, permanent homes for all New Yorkers, including our most vulnerable,” said Rick Gropper, Principal and Co-founder of Camber Property Group.

Redesigned by Aufgang, it’s now home to 199 residential units and 211 hotel rooms. To recall its original use, the facade, signage, marquis, and lobby were incorporated into the design.

Permits have been filed for a 15-story mixed-use building at 5119 Beach Channel Drive in Far Rockaway, Queens. Located at the intersection of Beach 53rd Street and Beach Channel Drive, the interior lot is closest to the Beach 60th Street subway station, serviced by the A train. The Arker Companies under the Peninsula Rockaway LP is listed as the owner behind the applications

An affordable housing lottery has opened for 35 units in a recently constructed seven-story building at 222 Johnson Avenue, at the corner of Bushwick Avenue, in Williamsburg.

Enhanced access for seniors and others with mobility issues will expand at an accelerated pace spurred by post-COVID-19 influences on residential architectural design utilizing creative applications of new technology to protect residents’ health and safety, while adding greater ease and convenience to their daily lives.

This powerhouse firm has made the top half this list for three years running. Aufgang filed plans mostly for projects in the Bronx and Queens this year, but there may be changes at one of its Manhattan developments. For developers Maddd Equities and Joy Construction, Aufgang had planned a 30-story, 544,000-square-foot project with 611 residential units and about 62,000 square feet of commercial space at 3875 Ninth Avenue in Inwood.

Now the developers say they might axe that plan for affordable and low- or middle-income units, which depended on a 2018 rezoning, in favor of an as-of-right industrial project, in light of a Manhattan judge overturning the rezoning this month.

Ariel Aufgang is the principal at Aufgang Architects, founded in 1971 and based in Suffern.

You can’t go near a subway stop and find something to build anymore,” because of the prohibitive cost, said Ariel Aufgang, an architect for the project, who has designed several affordable buildings in the city. Despite the distance from the train, the developer anticipates tens of thousands of applications for fewer than 1,200 units.

Ariel Aufgang, an architect active in affordable-housing development, believes the value attached to home ownership is an anachronism from post-war America, when it was believed that property values would rise inexorably, representing a no-brainer investment for families that tended to stay in one place.

A traditional yet contemporary brick and metal clad eight-story mixed-use building designed by Aufgang Architects will replace an empty lot on the corner of Fulton and Downing Street in Clinton Hill

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The largest project is from L+M Development on Exterior Street in the South Bronx

With project costs through the roof and more developers looking to the outer boroughs, TRD ranked the most prolific firms citywide

In New York, one of the most expensive cities for new development, there are acres of vacant land on irregular lots considered too narrow, too shallow or too onerous to build on. Like the offal left after the prime cuts of meat, they are the odds and ends that take the most skill to manipulate.

The proposed 85-foot tall development will yield 52,222 square feet, with 41,680 square feet designated for residential space and 9,243 square feet for commercial space.

Back in October 2018, YIMBY revealed a batch of fresh renderings and site plans for a proposed affordable housing development in the Westchester Square community of The Bronx. Today, the project is expected to move forward as intended following strong support from neighborhood residents, small business owners, and local union members.

Permits have been filed for a seven-story mixed-use building at 267 West 126th Street in Harlem, Manhattan. Located between Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard and Frederick Douglass Boulevard, the interior lot is one block east of the 125th Street subway station, serviced by the A, B, C, and D trains. New York City’s Housing Preservation and Development agency is listed as the owner behind the applications.

The Harlem project is a joint venture between Camber and non-profit partner Harlem Congregations for Community Improvement

Vertical Community Development, Sioni Group are putting up a two-tower project on East 149th Street

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Company has purchased site in Woodside with about 300K buildable sf

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A billion dollar development is headed for Brownsville, bringing an arts center and nearly 900 affordable housing units across three buildings to the neighborhood, to be built on city-owned sites.

APARTMENTS AT THE 12-STORY RENTAL ARE ASKING FROM $3,277/MONTH

Architect Ariel Aufgang revealed how technology can improve home accessibility and why regularly updated regulations could help reduce costs for developers building such projects

HARLEM, NY--When completed next year, the Marriott Hotel now rising above Harlem’s historic Victoria Theater will accelerate the economic revitalization of central Harlem’s main commercial corridor on West 125th St.

The 181-foot tall structure will yield 340,000 square feet, with 186,600 square feet dedicated to residential use, and 87,730 square feet for commercial use on the first and second floors

The gradual redevelopment of Harlem’s 125th Street corridor isn’t showing any signs of slowing down. Construction is starting to rise above ground level for a 26-story hotel and 25-story residential tower at 233 West 125th Street. The project is best known for its connection with the Victoria Theater, which will be restored and integrated with the Marriott. The Lam Group is the developer.

The curtain is finally rising on the long-planned redevelopment of Harlem's Victoria Theater. A recent visit to the construction site at 233 West 125th Street, which partially touches the Apollo Theater, reveals that the 28-story endeavor has reached street level. The $200 million project is being led forward by the Lam Group, Exact Capital, and Danforth Development Partners. The Empire State Development Corporation (ESD) is also helping fund the venture.