{"id":100061,"date":"2026-01-14T15:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T15:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/100061\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T15:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T15:19:08","slug":"new-york-citys-top-construction-permits-of-the-week-jan-9-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/100061\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City\u2019s Top Construction Permits of the Week: Jan. 9, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83c\udfc6 New Building: The largest new building permit last week was in Crown Heights. YS Developers LLC plans to construct a 10-story residential building at 970 Franklin Avenue that will span 116,893 square feet. The property will have 117 units. The architect is Hamish Whitefield.<\/p>\n<p>Job Filing Number: B01325938-I1<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcca New Building: Ridgewood had the second-largest new building permit filed last week. Architect Kao Hwa Lee filed for a permit for a 13-story, mixed-use development at 7-45 Wyckoff Avenue. The building will measure 68,813 square feet and have 86 apartments.<\/p>\n<p>Job Filing Number: Q01339235-I1<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcca New Building: In Williamsburg, plans were filed for an 11-story residential property at\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>554 Metropolitan Avenue that spans 66,118 square feet with 70 units. The architect on the project is Jonathan Imani. Job Filing Number: B01339874-I1<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfc6 Alteration: The largest alteration permit filed last week was for a conversion of a 16-story office building at 254 West 35th Street in Midtown-Times Square into a residential property. The conversion will cover 110,679 square feet and yield 166 units. The initial costs of the project at $800,925. Kao Hwa Lee is the architect.<\/p>\n<p>Job Filing Number: M01340670-I1<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcca Alteration: In Jamaica, Convergent Energy and Power plans to install an open non-accessory battery energy storage system at 93-12 183rd Street. The work would span 10,513 square feet, making the filing the second-largest alteration permit filed last week. The initial project costs are $2.2 million, and the project\u2019s applicant is Edward Iamiceli.<\/p>\n<p>Job Filing Number: Q01305505-I1<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfc6 Demolition: Staten Island had the largest demolition filing last week. Jieming Wang on behalf of Walla Avenue Construction filed for a permit to demolish 1101 and 1107 Bay Street, a church property and adjacent building, spanning a combined 44,604 square feet.<\/p>\n<p>Job Filing Numbers: S01323369-I1, S01323301-I1<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcca Demolition: The second-largest demolition filing was in Harlem, where Duy Hoang filed for a permit to tear down four commercial buildings measuring a combined 39,424 square feet. The properties are located at 108 and 120 West 145th Street, and 687 and 689 Lenox Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Job Filing Numbers: M01339939-I1, M01340563-I1, M01340558-I1, M01340535-I1<\/p>\n<p>Source Notes:<\/p>\n<p>Permits filed between 1\/2\/26 and 1\/9\/26<\/p>\n<p>Initial permits<\/p>\n<p>NB, Major Alterations, Demolitions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ud83c\udfc6 New Building: The largest new building permit last week was in Crown Heights. YS Developers LLC plans&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,24,55,54,5452,56],"class_list":{"0":"post-100061","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","11":"tag-new-york-city-news","12":"tag-new-york-city-real-estate-deals","13":"tag-ny"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}