A new 11-story building is now rising at 308 West 133rd Street in Central Harlem. The 46-unit building will likely be rentals. There will also be a community facility and medical offices on the ground and cellar floors. Situated between St. Nicholas Avenue and Frederick Douglass Boulevard, and the development a short walk from City College as well as the 135th Street station of the B and C lines. As of yesterday, workers are busy framing its second level.
Local architect, De-Jan Lu Architects are the designers and per the rendering posted on the project’s construction fence, the exterior will be clad in white with punch-out windows and two rows of balconies. The first two floors will have a double-height glass frontage with what appears to be diagonal bracing behind. The building will setback after the eighth floor and rise 125 feet tall to the top of its parapet. and will setback from the streetwall after the ninth floor.
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A sprinkling of new development has taken place throughout the westernmost blocks of Harlem between 125th and 145th streets. Two blocks north of 308 West 133rd Street is Strivers Gardens, one of the largest recent ground-up developments in area. The 12-story building has 170 condos, two of which are on the market - a two-bedroom with an ask of $1.165M and another two-bedroom going for $1.35M. At the corner of St. Nicholas Avenue and West 135th, a nine-story residential building is planned.
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Ondel Hylton
Ondel is a lifelong New Yorker and comprehensive assessor of the city's dynamic urban landscape.