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There’s a huge development underway on Greene Avenue between Classon and Franklin. The lot’s a biggie — 160 feet of street frontage — and the building will be a not-insignificant 12 stories high. We haven’t seen any designs yet, but so far it looks like the building will take up most of the lot. Given that this is an R6 district, there will presumably have to be a lot of setbacks in order to reach 12 stories. We believe that there will have to be a bunch of parking included as well. Anyone know anything about the plans for this? We wouldn’t be surprised if there was an affordable housing component as well. We’d love to see a rendering. The builders have already managed to rack up two violations for performing work without a permit. Nice. Update: A reader reminds us that we wrote about this project last summer when many people in the community did in fact turn out to protest the scale and unsafe building practices of the developer, WT Construction. More on the links.
Greene Ave Development Rally Attracts Pols [Brownstoner] GMAP P*Shark DOB
Pillaging Clifton Place MMG-Style [Brownstoner]


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  1. Wt Construction has proven they do not respect the community. They have damaged people’s property and cars while doing there best to sidestep taking responsibility to reimbrust for damages caused by illegal delivery by oversides vehicles on Greene avenue. I presently have a claim against them and they told me sorry do what you have to do.

  2. Dear Eryximachus, Hey I’m not saying we don’t need it, it is just amazing. Outside my office there is a new high rise building going up, one floor a week, I walk through WTC construction, construction all over Broadway downtown, construction all over Fulton. Man, I guess I felt like since my constuction is over (2 years!) the rest of the world should settle down. Thanks for the Harvard report.