A craptacular apartment building grows in Rego Park

If this doesn't look familiar to readers of this blog, this is the corner where the Drake Theatre and Abbracciamento's Restaurant used to be on Woodhaven Blvd. and 63rd Drive.

This building went up pretty fast and it looks it. From this layman's view, this looks like modular structuring. Not sure it's affordable, judging from the Chase Bank banner there.

Regardless, this is one fugly building.

City approves modular building for affordable housing

Queens Eagle

A proposed 167-apartment development in East New York is one of the first projects using modular construction that the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development has selected to finance, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Modular construction refers to the off-site construction of prefabricated, factory-produced units (modules) that are then stacked on top of each other to form a full building. The Build It Back program implemented in Queens and Staten Island after Hurricane Sandy also used modular housing.

The modules will be constructed by FullStack Modular at its factory in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The proposal was submitted by a development team led by Thorobird Cos. and its local nonprofit partner, Bangladeshi American Community Development & Youth Services.

“Doing modular is a really important, long-term strategy for the city,” said New York City Deputy Mayor Alicia Glen, whose last day on the job was Friday. “We know it saves time, and as it scales up, it will start saving money.”