Bronx Owner Files to Add 38 Units at 1074 Hall Place

Aaron Ausch filed plans Oct. 29 to enlarge a three-story walkup at 1074 Hall Place in the Bronx’s Longwood section into a seven-story building with 38 apartments, a Department of Buildings filing shows, the third permit or deal tied to his name or family surname on the same block in roughly two years.

Why it matters

The filing, job number X01469835-I1, proposes a vertical and horizontal enlargement that would keep the existing three-story structure and cellar in place while adding four stories and converting a building with zero dwelling units on record into a 38-unit property. Architect of record is Nikolai Katz, filed through Express Filing Inc. The project sits two lots north of 1078 Hall Place, where a Traded.co deal record shows the Ausch family closed on a $1.5 million purchase of a development site on March 23, 2026, buying from sellers Brandon Levy and Vate Pepushaj. Taken together, the filings point to one owner assembling several parcels on the same stretch of Hall Place in Longwood rather than a single, isolated conversion.

The numbers

DOB’s filing lists 8,927.15 square feet of total construction floor area and an initial cost estimate of $5,878,620, which works out to roughly $658 per square foot of floor area before land. The building would go from zero existing dwelling units to 38 proposed units, a density increase the filing attributes to the added stories rather than a change in the footprint. The job remains at Pending Plan Examiner Assignment status as of the filing date, meaning DOB has not yet approved the plans.

What’s next

A Pending Plan Examiner Assignment status means the application has not cleared DOB’s technical review, and nothing in the filing commits to a construction timeline or financing source. The pattern worth watching is the block itself: between the new filing at 1074 Hall Place and the closed purchase next door at 1078 Hall Place, the same surname now shows up on multiple Hall Place addresses within the same Longwood blockfront that has also drawn a DOB immediate-hazard citation this year at 1029 Hall Place. Whether Ausch’s plans at 1074 Hall Place clear DOB review, and whether the 1078 Hall Place site gets its own filing, are the next records to check. More on New York development.