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At Broadway Stack, the prefabricated residential building at 4857 Broadway in Inwood, the foundations and first floor have been completed, Curbed reported. The remaining 38,000 square feet of the project, developed by Gluck+, is being constructed off-site before being shipped and assembled during the week of April 15…. [more]

Ten apartment buildings in Washington Heights have been designated by a group of city officials as “at-risk properties,” buildings that are deteriorating and in danger of falling into further distress, Crain’s reported. As a result, the buildings, located at 566 and 570 West 190th Street, will now be part of the city’s Proactive Preservation Initiative, which monitors properties with liens and violations, Crain’s reported. [more]

There was a time, a long time, when it seemed as though the firm of Diller Scofidio + Renfro wasn’t doing much of anything. The architects gave lectures to like-minded vanguardists, designed art exhibitions and made art, or something like it. And they conjured up numerous projects that never left the drawing board.

Then, all of a sudden, they became incandescently hot, and now they seem to be everywhere. You could be excused for thinking that there was not a cultural project on New York’s architectural horizon that they do not have a hand in. They have reconceived Lincoln Center’s public spaces — not counting the buildings themselves —and have greatly improved and made more pleasant the public’s interaction with that 50-year-old cultural superblock. This firm was also responsible for the two completed installments of the High Line, and for the third one that is still a year or two away. [more]

Columbia University has unveiled plans for its medical center’s new education building in Washington Heights, the New York Times reported. The university tapped architecture firms Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Gensler to design the 14-story tower planned for Haven Avenue between West 171st and West 172nd streets. The result is a tower with a wide base that slopes inward with each higher floor. The southern side of the building’s exteriors will be exposed through a transparent glass facade. [more]

A portfolio of eight Upper Manhattan apartment buildings owned by landlord Vantage Properties and investment partner Area Property Partners sold last month for approximately $65 million, sources familiar with the deal said, far below what the partners paid for the properties in 2007. The three buyers included John Streicker’s Midtown-based Sentinel Real Estate, Queens-based Alma Realty and Onex Real Estate Partners, based in Midtown, several sources said. [more]

A 1,000-seat restaurant along the Hudson River that was originally proposed as part of Inwood’s waterfront revival has been scaled back to half its original size, because the community said the larger eatery and bar would disturb the neighborhood’s quality of life, DNAinfo reported. La Marina will open within the coming weeks on the western end of Dyckman Street, but with seating now capped at 500. [more]

From the May issue: In the last few years, the part of Northern Manhattan that’s received the most press ink has, of course, been Harlem. But there’s an entire residential market farther north in Washington Heights and Inwood that often gets overlooked by the New York real estate community.

This month, The Real Deal talked to brokers and market analysts who follow what’s going on in the two adjacent neighborhoods. What we found is that the area has seen a recent surge in sales activity, some of which is a result of the major drop it saw after the crash, which lasted longer than it did in some other Manhattan neighborhoods. In addition, prices there are also starting to creep up because inventory has started to tighten. [more]

Talks to landmark the perpetually unfinished Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Morningside Heights have renewed for a fourth time in more than 40 years as Equity Residential lays plans for a 15-story apartment building on the church’s campus, the Wall Street Journal reported. Once again, preservationists and activists want the building and its surrounding campus — called “the close” — landmarked before Equity begins work on its development. [more]

A multi-family apartment building in Upper Manhattan purchased this year at a record price per unit by an affiliate of Manhattan-based Atias Enterprises was acquired with allegedly illegal funds and federal prosecutors want that property and a smaller one in Brooklyn turned over to the government. [more]

The Convent Avenue Baptist Church now has broken grown for a new addition to the building, Harlem + Bespoke reported. The church, located on 145th Street between Convent and St. Nicholas avenues in the Hamilton Heights historic district, will add a building with an elevator shaft.

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