Real Estate Wire: Durst Organization Acquires Astoria’s Hallets Point; 26-Story Tower May Come to Essex Crossing

• The Durst Organization has paid more than $100 million to acquire 90% of the Hallets Point residential-retail development along the Astoria waterfront. [Daily News]
• Landmarks OK’s residential addition for 121-year-old Upper West Side church. [Curbed]
• 26-story, mixed-use tower proposed for Victoria Theater site in Harlem. [Yimby]
• Handel Architects filed preliminary permits for a 26-story tower as part of the Essex Crossing mega-development that will have residential and commercial space and a 14-screen movie theater. [Bowery Boogie]
• Average sale prices in north and northwest Brooklyn are up 24.6%. [Brownstoner]
• Edwardian Georgian mansion on the Upper East Side hits the market for $150,000/month. [Daily News]

Images: Rendering of Hallets Point, via the Durst Organization (L); Rendering of Essex Street Crossing, via Bowery Boogie (R)