{"id":144848,"date":"2026-02-25T15:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T15:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/144848\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T15:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T15:08:10","slug":"nycs-top-construction-permits-of-the-week-feb-20-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/144848\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC\u2019s Top Construction Permits of the Week: Feb. 20, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83c\udfc6 New Building: The largest new building application filed last week was in the Bronx, where two buildings spanning a combined 108,337 square feet will be built at 2500 and 2502 Cambreleng Avenue. The owner is Bridge Asset Management<\/p>\n<p>The building will have a total of 180 residential units. The architect is Nikolai Katz.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Job Filing Numbers: X01359471-I1, X01359460-I1<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcca New Building: In East Williamsburg, an application was filed for a 110,047-square-foot building at 64 Meserole Street. The property, which will stand nine stories tall, will have 99 apartments. Moshe Schwimmer is the owner and Shmuel Wieder is the architect.<\/p>\n<p>Job Filing Number: B01350570-I1<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcca New Building: In the Woodstock section of the Bronx, Shimon Kleinman of Borough Developers plans to construct a five-story building at 2970 Third Avenue measuring 66,171 square feet. The architect is De-Jan Lu.<\/p>\n<p>Job Filing Number: X01360469-I1<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfc6 Alteration: The Plaza District had the top alteration application filed last week. At 9 West 54th Street, the William R. Berkeley Foundation plans to renovate 22,579 square feet of space across all of the building\u2019s six floors. Randy Correll is the architect.<\/p>\n<p>Job Filing Number: M01350376-I1<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcca Alteration: Architect Gerald Caliendo filed an application on behalf of the owner of 71-24 Main Street in Kew Gardens Hills to undertake 16,197 square feet of alteration work. The two-story property currently has mostly retail uses and is being converted for business, religious and daycare uses.<\/p>\n<p>Job Filing Number: Q01352550-I1<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcca Alteration: On Governors Island, a former residential property at 19 Evans Road is being converted into an office and commercial building. The alteration work covers 10,400 square feet. Mark Gardner is the project\u2019s architect and the three-story building is owned by the Trust for Governors Island.<\/p>\n<p>Job Filing Number: M01225549-I1<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfc6 Demolition: In Hunts Point, a two-story, 141,748-square-foot industrial property at 1132 Oak Point Road is being demolished. James Patterson is the project\u2019s engineer.<\/p>\n<p>Job Filing Number: X01347425-I1<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcca Demolition: Chris Sanders, engineer, applied to demolish a 68,476-square-foot structure at 183 Varick Street, a commercial building, in Hudson Square on behalf of Avdoo &amp; Partners Development.<\/p>\n<p>Job Filing Number: M01359182-I1<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcca Demolition: New Empire Corp. filed plans to knock down six East Village properties spanning a total of 33,860 square feet: 564, 565 and 567 Second Avenue and 247, 251 and 249 East 31st Street. All of the buildings stand four stories tall and house a combined 51 apartments. The project\u2019s engineer is Zhuang Miao.<\/p>\n<p>Job Filing Numbers: M01329790-I1, M01329860-I1, M01329861-I1, M01330794-I1, M01330797-I1, M01330795-I1<\/p>\n<p>Source Notes: Permits filed between 2\/16\/26 and 2\/20\/26<\/p>\n<p>Initial permits NB, Major Alterations, Demolitions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\ud83c\udfc6 New Building: The largest new building application filed last week was in the Bronx, where two buildings&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,5452,56,63,65,64],"class_list":["post-144848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city-real-estate-deals","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144848","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=144848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}