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UES Mega-Developments To Be Discussed At Community Board Tuesday
Extell Development will meet with Community Board 8's housing committee Tuesday to discuss two full-block developments on First Avenue.

Extell Development will meet with Community Board 8's housing committee Tuesday to discuss two full-block developments on First Avenue.

Two development firms bought the East 83rd Street and Third Avenue site last year for $167 million.

A city lottery for the units got 68,000 applications for just 28 apartments, developers said.
The apartment building will replace five existing low-rise buildings on East 79th Street between Park and Lexington avenues.
The lawsuit seeks to block a planned 50-story private development from being built at the Upper East Side's Holmes Towers NYCHA complex.
Two Upper East Side residents are suing the city to block a development going up near their buildings.
The man, who schemed investors in projects on the Upper East Side and the Hamptons, will serve six years in prison, prosecutors said.
The new development will rise on East 86th Street between First and Second avenues.
Developers must get written approval from the FDNY to continue building a Rafael Viñoly-designed tower on East 62nd Street.
The new development will replace a four-story retail building and contain 19 large apartment units.
The apartments are located in a new development on Second Avenue and East 92nd Street.
The Inspīr Carnegie Hill development, currently in construction on Second Avenue and East 93rd Street, is expected to open in 2020.
Extell Development is putting together a huge building site on First Avenue between East 85th and 86th streets.
NYCHA claims an unpopular 50-story development on Holmes Towers land will fund renovations, but skeptics say the money won't make a dent.
City and state officials disagree on where money to build the new campus should come from.
A four-story building will give way for an apartment complex with 15 large units.
The city Landmarks Preservation Commission added the First Hungarian Reformed Church on East 69th Street to its landmarking calendar.
Townhouse sales in the last six months of 2018 were down 48 percent from the year before.
Developers have filed plans to build a new development on East 79th Street between First and Second avenues.
The local community board plans to fight the project, but the city and developers say it will raise money for much-needed NYCHA repairs.
The six-story apartment development will rise on a currently vacant lot on East 93rd Street.
The Church of the Epiphany will expand to Jan Hus Presbyterian Church and sell its current building to NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital.
Extell Development is behind the demolition of a six-story brick building on the corner of First Avenue and East 86th Street.
Fetner Properties is planning a 500-foot development with about 300 apartments on the campus of NYCHA's Holmes Towers.
The "Pulp Fiction" and "Avengers" star bought the East 63rd Street home in 2005 for $4.8 million.
Six buildings on York Avenue between East 85th and 86th streets will be bulldozed for a planned assisted living facility.
The home hit the market in November 2017 with an asking price of $39 million.
Developers behind a planned 800-foot residential tower will have to slow the pace of construction, the East River Fifties Alliance said.
Russian aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska, who's been hit with federal sanctions, bought the East 64th Street home in 2008.
Roosevelt lived in the limestone townhouse until her death in 1962.
Six residents of the Carnegie Park apartment building on East 94th Street claim their condos have asbestos-containing materials.
The duplex apartment is located in a Park Avenue co-op called the "world's richest apartment building."
Scaffolding has enveloped First Avenue between East 80th and 79th streets as developers begin to demolish the entire block.
The East 82nd Street development will contain 21 apartments and space for a small medical facility.
The Board of Standards and Appeals ruled that a planned 800-foot residential tower should not be affected by a recently-passed rezoning.
Owners of the co-op operated the property like a for-profit rental, violating state laws and depriving tenants of rent stabilization.
The property is one of the most expensive New York City townhouses to change hands this year.
Roman Abramovich, who earned his multi-billion-dollar fortune in Russia's steel industry, is combining four East 74th Street townhouses.
The building will also feature ground-floor commercial space.
The healthcare company, which operates Lenox Hill Hospital, will build a new ambulatory care and cancer center on Third Avenue.