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Extell's UES Development Site Is Unsafe: Lawmaker, Seniors Say
Extell Development's First Avenue building site is unsafe, dark and infested with rats, State Assemblymember Rebecca Seawright said.

Extell Development's First Avenue building site is unsafe, dark and infested with rats, State Assemblymember Rebecca Seawright said.

The Madison Avenue residents claims the development going up across the block violates city zoning codes.

The new development will rise 270-feet-tall on the corner of Second Avenue and East 88th Street.
The median price of 41 home sales in the zip code 10028 was $2,500,000 during the first six months of 2019.
The disgraced governor's father developed the East 72nd Street apartment building in the 1970s. New owners plan to modernize it.
Gale Brewer will continue a legal fight to require the city go through a full public review for private development plans at Holmes Towers.
The new facility, which will have about 130 units, will replace six buildings on York Avenue between East 85th and 86th streets.
The city is going back to the drawing board on a plan to develop part of the Holmes Towers complex on East 93rd Street.
Items up for sale include antique fireplaces, stair railings, marble mantelpieces and entire windows.
The double-wide townhouse on East 67th Street sold for nearly double it was bought for in 2008.
Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer argues that the Third Avenue tower is five stories taller than legally allowed.
Developers plan to build an 800-foot residential tower on East 58th Street despite newly-passed zoning restrictions.
The 13-story retail and residential building will replace a Giorgio Armani store on Madison Avenue.
Extell Development is demolishing two full-block sites on First Avenue, but has few details to share about plans for new buildings.
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.