Format
Full
City
New York
State/Province
NY
Country
USA
Metro Area
New York
Project Type
Planned Community or Resort
Location Type
Outer Suburban
Land Uses
Education
Fitness Center
Mixed Residential
Open space
Parking
Restaurant
Retail
Supermarket
Transportation Use
Keywords
Affordable housing
Beachfront
Healthy place features
Oceanfront site
Resilient design
Single-family attached housing
Transit-oriented development
Two-family owner/renter units
Workforce housing
Site Size
120
acres
acres
hectares
Date Started
2000
Date Opened
2010
Arverne by the Sea is a 120-acre planned community on a previously vacant redevelopment site located adjacent to the Atlantic Ocean on the Rockaway Peninsula of Queens in New York City. The community is situated next to an A-train transit station and will include 2,296 residential units in a variety of building types, including both multifamily condominium buildings and attached two- and three-story structures; many of the units are designed and sold as two-family stacked units—one for the owner to live in and the other for the owner to rent. The community was designed to be resilient in the face of increasing hurricane risks and rising sea levels. The developers brought in more than 500,000 cubic yards of fill to raise the level of the entire site by an average of eight feet, developed a special drainage system to reduce flooding risk, and used a variety of construction materials and design techniques to improve the resilience of the buildings.
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Format
Full
City
New York
State/Province
NY
Country
USA
Metro Area
New York
Project Type
Planned Community or Resort
Location Type
Outer Suburban
Land Uses
Education
Fitness Center
Mixed Residential
Open space
Parking
Restaurant
Retail
Supermarket
Transportation Use
Keywords
Affordable housing
Beachfront
Healthy place features
Oceanfront site
Resilient design
Single-family attached housing
Transit-oriented development
Two-family owner/renter units
Workforce housing
Site Size
120
acres
acres
hectares
Date Started
2000
Date Opened
2010
Website
www.arvernebythesea.com
Project address
6306 Beach Front Road
Arverne, New York 11692
Developer
Arverne by the Sea LLC
Arverne, New York
Development partners
The Benjamin Companies
Garden City, New York
516-745-0150
www.benjamindevco.com
The Beechwood Organization
Jericho, New York
516-935-5555
www.beechwoodhomes.com
Architects and planners
EE&K Architects,
a Perkins Eastman company
New York, New York
www.eekarchitects.com
www.perkinseastman.com
Meltzer/Costa & Associates
Great Neck, New York
www.meltzercosta.com
Consultants and Contractors
Civil engineer
Wohl & O'Mara
Staten Island, New York
Infrastructure contractor
C.A.C. Industries Inc.
Long Island City, New York