the second avenue Q train (eventually the T train), will terminate at 125st and that is that.

 

the 5 train is nowhere near co-op city in the bronx. the 6 train is closer. both are far from there though. i have actually walked to both trains a few times from near co-op when i had a work site nearby for a couple years and its quite a hike (but lots of fun stuff along the way with stuff like fantastic jamaican restaurants and grocery stores, the gun hill brewery, etc.).

if the 2nd ave train were ever to be extended to the bronx it would run east of the 5&6 trains to co-op city.

that will never happen in anyone's lifetime.

 

I was reading accounts that said in the early 2000s that the Q and T were going to extend north to The Bronx.  It was in 2007 that the decisions were made which led to what just opened.  The line of course does not physically exist at 125th St. yet so options are still wide open for what happens there.  The 5 train would be turned into a BMT line and extended toward Co-op City, from what I read.  Some people are vehemently anti-125th crosstown and believe that both trains should extend straight north with no deflection across Harlem.  Also, there are rumors that a turnout exists in the 63rd St. tunnel designed to let Queens train turn south on the downtown-bound section of the Second Ave. line. 

 

the second avenue Q train (eventually the T train), will terminate at 125st and that is that.

 

the 5 train is nowhere near co-op city in the bronx. the 6 train is closer. both are far from there though. i have actually walked to both trains a few times from near co-op when i had a work site nearby for a couple years and its quite a hike (but lots of fun stuff along the way with stuff like fantastic jamaican restaurants and grocery stores, the gun hill brewery, etc.).

if the 2nd ave train were ever to be extended to the bronx it would run east of the 5&6 trains to co-op city.

that will never happen in anyone's lifetime.

 

I was reading accounts that said in the early 2000s that the Q and T were going to extend north to The Bronx.  It was in 2007 that the decisions were made which led to what just opened.  The line of course does not physically exist at 125th St. yet so options are still wide open for what happens there.  The 5 train would be turned into a BMT line and extended toward Co-op City, from what I read.  Some people are vehemently anti-125th crosstown and believe that both trains should extend straight north with no deflection across Harlem.  Also, there are rumors that a turnout exists in the 63rd St. tunnel designed to let Queens train turn south on the downtown-bound section of the Second Ave. line. 

 

i would not put much stock in plans from the earliest conception of the 2nd ave subway until 2007.

 

any lex line extension plan of second avenue into the bronx is probably unfeasible now. it already branches off in two directions in the north bronx. to make the Q/T into a third branch across a new set of tracks to co-op city would be confusing and expensive and would overwhelm service on that line. the main reason is generally four tracks are needed to run three lines of service and there are only three tracks on the 5 train el in the bronx before it branches off in the northern end.

 

there was some thought to build an all new northeastern line thru to co-op to extend the 2nd ave subway, i think there is even some existing provision for that, but its unlikely as well anytime soon, given the southern phase 3 and 4 have priority (and certainly the crosstown 125st extension has priority as well).

 

so kind of a waste of thought as there are no plans or discussion for any of this 2nd ave/bronx subway service for now -- but at least increased mnrr services plans in the bronx are real.

 

so 2nd ave will built to be run across 125st eventually. if 2nd ave ever does go to the bronx that could easily be tweaked as the 125 stub is built to continue service north. if and when that happens no doubt the Q/T would become a separate 125st shuttle.

 

as for the 63rd st station, far as i know there is no turnout to the south. i don't see one, its bi-level, with each level in either direction. there is a plan to build a southern turn for there phase 3, but it wont be used or used right away, although it could be.

 

here's a wiki blurb on that:

 

The third phase of Second Avenue Line construction, not currently funded, is proposed to include a separate connection between the IND 63rd Street Line and the Second Avenue Line, turning southwest from 63rd Street onto Second Avenue. This connection would allow trains coming from the IND Queens Boulevard Line to run on the Second Avenue Line to Midtown Manhattan and Lower Manhattan. However, the MTA currently has no plans to run passenger trains through this connection and it would be used only for movements by non-passenger trains, although passenger service could be possible if subway capacity in Queens is increased to accommodate extra service.

i forgot i had these panos i took a couple months ago --

 

its recent views of the now well cleared out one vanderbilt site next to grand central --

 

of course the open views will be going away soon --

 

 

 

What's this building?

 

It's a classic example of one that would be a big deal in any other city including Chicago or LA, but not in NYC.

 

 

exactly true and it was completely hidden by other big buildings -- and will be yet again when one vanderbilt goes up. its like a new discovery. some problem to have, right? seeing the nice buildings clearly is probably only a nyc problem. of course the converse is that the density also covers up a lot a crap bldgs -- ha.

 

anyway, to answer your question -- per nysonglines --  The Lincoln Building, dating to 1929-30, was designed to bring fresh air to all offices. The vestibule has a statue of Lincoln cast from Daniel Chester French's original model for the Lincoln Memorial.

 

 

exactly true and it was completely hidden by other big buildings -- and will be yet again when one vanderbilt goes up. its like a new discovery. some problem to have, right? seeing the nice buildings clearly is probably only a nyc problem. of course the converse is that the density also covers up a lot a crap bldgs -- ha.

 

anyway, to answer your question -- per nysonglines --  The Lincoln Building, dating to 1929-30, was designed to bring fresh air to all offices. The vestibule has a statue of Lincoln cast from Daniel Chester French's original model for the Lincoln Memorial.

 

 

I found this kind of interesting:  there were four buildings over 650 feet tall completed in 1930, raising the total globally to six.  Five of them were on Manhattan Island, the sixth was of course Terminal Tower.  Which was the only 700’ plus building in the world off Manhattan until 1953.

 

So when the Lincoln Building was completed it was one of the six tallest in the world.

 

http://tudl0867.home.xs4all.nl/buildings1930.html

 

The Central Trust tower in Cincinnati (now PNC Bank) was the tallest in the world outside Manhattan when it opened in 1913.  It's like a poor man's Met Life Building. 

^It was the tallest office building in the world outside of Manhattan.  Philadelphia City Hall and a few other notable non-office buildings were taller at the time.

just for the record per emporis the lincoln bldg is 673.01 ft to the tip and 55 floors, so shorter than terminal tower (771.01 ft, 52 floors).

just for the record per emporis the lincoln bldg is 673.01 ft to the tip and 55 floors, so shorter than terminal tower (771.01 ft, 52 floors).

 

The funny thing is I have always heard that Terminal is 708 feet, they must be counting the flagpole now.

 

Even the Tower's Twitter used that number today (771).

Another forum reports that Trump plans to fund Second Ave. Subway to Harlem and a revival of the ARC Tunnel killed by Chris Christie.  No telling how much of this might actually get funded because I doubt Congress is eager to fund projects in Democrat-heavy areas. 

Politico is reporting that the "leaked document" is not from the Trump transition team. It could be from any other group, who knows.

Politico is reporting that the "leaked document" is not from the Trump transition team. It could be from any other group, who knows.

 

Trump backed himself into a corner with his infrastructure promises.  The projects that will put more people to work and have the highest ROI have a tendency to be located in Democrat-leaning areas.  Congress isn't going to approve that. 

 

^ i heard that trump was talking about road projects and toll roads or something like that recently??

 

the guy is hard to keep up with that is for sure!

 

Another forum reports that Trump plans to fund Second Ave. Subway to Harlem and a revival of the ARC Tunnel killed by Chris Christie.  No telling how much of this might actually get funded because I doubt Congress is eager to fund projects in Democrat-heavy areas. 

 

i think thats what he said about second avenue, however, arc is dead. christie scuttled that, kept all the $ at first, then eventually kept half of it after a battle with the feds. he used it for nj roadwork. yes hes under investigation about that. he should never be allowed anywhere near fed public transit funds again.

 

the other project is called gateway. actually its badly needed one way or another anyway because the current amtrak tunnels under the hudson are 100yrs old and were badly damaged by sandy. sandy was the storm that just never stops giving!

 

 

edit: gateway is rightfully number one on trump's just released infrastructure list:

 

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3409546/Emergency-NatSec50Projects-121416-1-Reduced.txt

just for the record per emporis the lincoln bldg is 673.01 ft to the tip and 55 floors, so shorter than terminal tower (771.01 ft, 52 floors).

 

The funny thing is I have always heard that Terminal is 708 feet, they must be counting the flagpole now.

 

Even the Tower's Twitter used that number today (771).

 

 

ahh yeah. i bet that is the old flagpole vs spire debate. i usually call bullsheet on this, like with the new wtc tower. that aint no spire i dont care what they say. however, the old classic towers like ebs and especially chrysler are clearly spires. that is, the pointy stuff at the top is part of and a continuation of the design. now if ebs is a spire (it was added later), then terminal most certainly is too. so even though terminal has a flagpole...its not a flagpole.  :laugh:

it appears one vanderbilt, next to grand central, is now officially u/c -- 1301' to the roof, 1401' to the spire:

 

 

 

1301 feet and only 57 stories is interesting. Wikipedia says the floors will have 14-20 foot heights. That's huge compared to current norms, but there must be significant demand for it. I think high/open ceilings are one of the big reasons why so many people choose old industrial buildings for office conversions. It's not often an option in newer towers, where floor to floor heights might be only 14 or even 12 feet, or, if it is, it just doesn't have the same appeal because the exposed ducts, sprinklers, etc. are so much closer to people. They look nice when they're all painted white and 10 feet above your head, they don't look all that nice when they're 2 feet above your head.

^ ha yeah that is for sure.

 

per the nypost, check out the ceiling height of the second floor restaurant that will go in this tower - 105'!:

 

 

One Vanderbilt will house a huge world-class restaurant

 

By Steve Cuozzo October 25, 2016 | 12:57am

 

A little-noticed feature of SL Green’s One Vanderbilt, which broke ground last week, is a giant world-class restaurant on the tower’s second floor.

 

Diners will reach the venue — 11,000 square feet, part of which will boast an incredible ceiling height of 105 feet — through an entrance at the corner of Vanderbilt Avenue and East 42nd Street.

 

SL Green managing director Brett Herschenfeld said, “We are in the latter stages of selecting… one of the top restaurateurs in the world.”

I read awhile back that One Vanderbilt was given all sorts of zoning variances as a reward for incorporating critical parts of the East Side Access project into its basement levels, especially a set of elevators to the deep platforms that would have cost the LIRR much more to build on its own below active streets.  Does anyone know of a recent article detailing these features?

here is some info about grand central, subway & east side access improvements, including those via the one vanderbilt developers:

 

 

 

this first article is more about the subway improvements --

- at $220m its the largest private deal in city history & it will make room for 2200k more riders per hour:

 

 

http://gothamist.com/2016/10/18/subway_grand_central_plan.php

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and here is something about the $10B++ east side access & the escalators --

- the project are already includes plenty of them - it opens in 2022-ish:

 

 

The LIRR station at Grand Central itself will be 350,000 square feet: 120,000 square feet will be for passengers and 25,000 square feet will be retail space. There will be numerous escalators traveling 180 feet (similar to the long one at the new 7 train station at Hudson Yards) in four areas; three of the escalator areas will always be operational, with the fourth available when others need to undergo maintenance. There will be two upper platforms, two lower platforms and a mezzanine. The station will be modern, but will have echoes of Grand Central.

 

 

 

 

 

more:

http://gothamist.com/2015/11/04/east_side_access_photos.php#photo-1

 

 

 

lastly, this is the breakdown & schematics of what sl green, the developer, is spending --

-- it includes their own public connection to east side access, which is basically a perk for their building:

 

 

 

 

more:

http://ny.curbed.com/2014/10/16/10034718/one-vanderbilt-developer-outlines-210m-of-transit-upgrades

 

 

 

 

more about the east side access project:

 

http://web.mta.info/capital/esa_alt.html

http://ny.curbed.com/east-side-access

 

 

 

 

 

a couple updates via amny --

 

 

 

Pacific Park residential tower, next to Barclays Center, is now leasing apartments

 

By Ivan Pereira  [email protected] November 15, 2016

 

The homes next to the Barclays Center are stacked up and ready for you.

 

Pacific Park’s developers officially opened its first residential tower, 461 Dean, for leasing Tuesday. The 31-story building, which has been in the works since 2012, is the largest property in the country to be constructed modularly.

 

Crews built 930 rooms in a factory, shipped them to the site at the corner of Dean Street and Flatbush Avenue, and stacked and connected them like Lego blocks to create the 363 rental apartments.

 

“It was a long process because no one had taken time to build a modular building this big,” said Adam Greene, of Forest City Ratner, the developer behind the tower and the other Pacific Park properties.

 

The building, which was hit with delays due to lawsuits and financial issues, has 149 studios, 166 one-bedroom and 48 two-bedroom units, half of which will be set aside for affordable rates. Over 84,000 prospective residents applied for the affordable units, which will be doled out via the city’s affordable housing lottery, according to Forest City Ratner.

The market rate apartments will start at $2,450 for studios, $3,125 for one-bedrooms and $4,750 for two-bedrooms. The affordable units start at $559 for a studio, $600 for a one-bedroom and $727 for a two-bedroom.

 

In addition to views of the Manhattan skyline, Downtown Brooklyn and the Statue of Liberty, the building has a host of amenities including a game room, lounge and rooftop terrace. Chris Sharples, of SHoP Architects, which designed both 461 Dean and the Barclays Center, said residents wouldn’t be disturbed by arena events.

 

“We engineered it that way, both the building and the arena,” he said.

 

Greene said the first tenants are expected to move into the tower at the end of the month and progress on the other buildings in the Pacific Park plan is moving along at a steady pace.

 

Three buildings, a condo at 550 Vanderbilt and two rentals that will offer 100% affordable units at 535 Carlton Ave. and 38 Sixth Ave., will open in the next nine months. The new residences will have a combined 879 new apartments. Two other buildings will open at a future date.

 

http://www.amny.com/real-estate/pacific-park-residential-tower-next-to-barclays-center-is-now-leasing-apartments-1.12622527

 

 

 

Prospect Heights’ Pacific Park affordable housing lottery to include 303 units

 

By Ivan Pereira  [email protected] January 12, 2017

 

 

Apartments at Pacific Park’s 100 percent affordable housing building will be up for grabs for qualified New Yorkers starting Friday as the city opens up its lottery for 303 units.

 

The apartments at 38 Sixth Ave. will be given to low- and middle-income New Yorkers who fall under two brackets, according to the city and developer Greenland Forest City Partners.

 

Applicants making a maximum of $63,500 for single tenants and $105,100 for a family of four, are eligible for 105 units, which include studios, one, two- and three- bedrooms.

 

The remaining apartments will be available to applicants making a maximum of $104,775 for single tenants and $173,415 for a family of four.

 

Rents will be as low as $532 a month for a studio to as much as $3,695 for a three-bedroom.

 

The building, which is slated to open in the summer, has several amenities including a laundry room, a fitness center, children’s play area, bike storage, resident lounge, pet grooming area, and an outdoor terrace.

 

Interested New Yorkers can apply via the city’s online lottery portal at https://a806-housingconnect.nyc.gov/nyclottery/lottery.html or by calling 311. Applications are due by March 14.

This is off topic, so I apolgize in advance. I find NYC so fascinating. When you go their, it's clear it's a city that's kept itself preserved. But I can't help but feel what was preserved was more "new" preservation so to speak. In essence, the old NYC was completely wiped out by the growing population and the rising skyscrapers that replaced these older buildings.

 

I found images of the gilded age of NYC (from the late 1800's, early 1900's.) Holy crap did NYC look straight out of Europe.

 

 

 

 

Would have been really cool if this was preserved.

 

 

great find there -- yes its quite a shame that as the city grew nyc lost its beautiful 5th avenue gilded era mansions, just as it is that cleveland did along euclid avenue.

 

however, even though there are a lot of anonymous skyscrapers along 5th ave nowadays, they do generate business that is the engine of the city and also the retail below them remains quite active. that was the tradeoff. the rich who lived there, of course, always easily found other places to live -- along the sidestreets, in newer fancy apt buildings and eventually out in their suburban estates.

I'm sure that the property tax on those houses was horrendous.  Remember that in the 1800s there was no income or capital gains tax.  This meant that once someone became wealthy, their wealth spiraled upward without limit.  When new types of taxation on businesses and earned income and capital gains and dividends began, suddenly the additional burden of property tax wasn't so incidental.  The British aristocracy didn't pay property tax for the 1,000-year period preceding the rise of the Labour Party and by the 1950s few of the wealthy families were able to hold onto more than the land immediately surrounding their huge country houses. 

 

The Mellon family still lives on Fifth Ave.  My parents went to their place recently (like 2012-2013) and said they actually still had servants wearing white gloves and maids in French maid-type outfits.  One of the women in the family apparently kept mentioning that she dated Mick Jagger back in the 70s. 

That stretch of 5th Ave is still beautiful, just in a different manner. Most of the old gilded age mansions are indeed gone, but what replaced them is also beautiful. There are literally tens of thousands of gorgeous ornate buildings in the Upper East Side, many sitting on sites that used to be occupied by mansions.

i would not call that stretch of 5th below the plaza beautiful. busy for sure, but not beautiful as it was at its mansion era peak.

 

for twist this is a look further back at what the mansions replaced!

 

 

 

 

 

i saw this render of long island city queens developments that are either built or under way.

 

its like a whole city in itself has sprung up or is on the way.  :-o

 

 

 

 

Agree to disagree then. I don't view over the top gilded age mansions as the epitome of beauty and find that stretch of 5th Ave, as insufferable as it can be to maneuver through as a pedestrian, very attractive. And I wasn't only including below the plaza when I said, "that stretch" since the gilded age mansions stretched much further north than just the area south of the park.

Is Citibank still by itself over there or does it have some friends? 

Agree to disagree then. I don't view over the top gilded age mansions as the epitome of beauty and find that stretch of 5th Ave, as insufferable as it can be to maneuver through as a pedestrian, very attractive. And I wasn't only including below the plaza when I said, "that stretch" since the gilded age mansions stretched much further north than just the area south of the park.

 

 

no, i dont find those mansions the epitome of beauty either, just more aesthetically beautiful than most of what replaced them along that area, referring to the stretch of 5th ave south of the plaza where all the shopping is just because that is what the old photos are showing. i didnt mean to the north or the rest of the ues. certainly there a lot of very consistently beautiful stretches around those areas.

Is Citibank still by itself over there or does it have some friends? 

 

definately the latter -- most of those buildings in the render are either built or under way.

The skylines of LIC and Downtown Brooklyn are seriously impressive these days. Every time I go over the Williamsburg Bridge I'm impressed with how much they've grown even in the handful of years since I first visited NYC. And they're only going to get taller and denser.

 

LIC and Downtown Brooklyn both have supertalls on the way which will place them in a new category. Exciting times.

oh yeah, i forgot about 9 dekalb, downtown brooklyn and right to next to juniors.

 

that is one of my favorite 1000'+ new supertall towers of them all -- same developer as 111w57st, another favorite.

 

 

 

 

https://archpaper.com/2016/07/shop-brooklyn-9-dekalb-avenue/

Yeah, 9 DeKalb and 111W57th are the gold standard for residential supertalls in the city, possibly even world. The quality of design and materials sets them apart from anything else. I love that they're so thoroughly modern Gotham too. Especially 9 DeKalb. If someone photoshopped that into a picture of Gotham City from the comic books it would feel completely at home. Dark glass and bronze = sex.

 

111W57th with its bronze and terracotta is going to be so completely different than anything else around it. It will stand out in an amazing way.

 

Then they have their brother from another mother, 53W53rd (aka Tower Verre, aka MOMA Tower) which is equally modern Gotham.

Is Citibank still by itself over there or does it have some friends? 

 

To visually answer your question:

 

Well Damn.  The stage is set for Hudson Yards East. 

There's already a very ambiguous proposal there. Sunnyside Yards.

 

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/queens/catherine-nolan-listen-locals-input-sunnyside-yards-article-1.2043803

 

There are various ideas surrounding its use, but one includes moving the Javitz Center (which recently released renderings of its $1.2B renovation/addition) to Sunnyside Yards. The sale of its former spot would fund much of the construction of the new Sunnyside Yards project which would offer thousands of units, many affordable, and bridge what's a massive scar through that portion of Queens and offer better connections.

 

They estimated it would cost $19B making it a bigger estimate than when Hudson Yards kicked off (though that has ballooned to something like $21B at the moment) meaning it'll likely wind up twice that by the time it's done.

 

It would be a great project and a boon for Queens if this were to happen.

another new mini-skyline is on the way downtown along the two bridges neighborhood east river waterfront -- just north of the manhattan bridge. the 800'+ tower on the left, called one manhattan square by extell, is well along. it replaced a low rise grocery store and empty lots.

 

the next one to come will be the 900'+ green one, 247 cherry by jds, which will be the most interesting one because it will have glazed terracotta cladding and it will oddly cantilever over a senior housing building at its base. a bid by the neighbors to delay it was recently denied:

 

 

 

more:

http://ny.curbed.com/2016/12/13/13939954/extell-one-manhattan-square-penthouse-sold

 

 

more one manhattan square and 247 cherry:

 

 

 

 

 

 

One Manhattan Square is unfortunately clad in very cheap glass. I go over the bridge to and from work everyday and it was all looking cool until the glass went up. It's wavy as hell and looks really bad. That will only be amplified by the amazing green terracotta of its future neighbor.

Well all this is making NY, NY out in Las Vegas look pretty dated. 

ng skyscrapers that replaced these older buildings.

 

I found images of the gilded age of NYC (from the late 1800's, early 1900's.) Holy crap did NYC look straight out of Europe.

 

 

 

 

 

Center building is a good 35-40 stories is that the old Waldorf-Astoria?

It's this building.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_Building_(New_York)

 

Still there and still gorgeous.

I revisited the Oculus recently now that it's officially open...as a shopping mall. There's something more than a little unseemly about all the over-the-top glitz and near-theme park atmosphere, especially just steps from the 9/11 memorial. But the irresistible urge to take pictures of other people taking pictures of themselves was too much. Although I fear one of these days someone is going to go plummeting over one of the balconies (or as the article refers to them, "diving boards") in the quest of the perfect selfie--

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/06/nyregion/westfield-world-trade-center-mall-occulus.html?_r=0

 

 

sadly this came true yesterday (but not from a selfie). Just horrible

Woman falls to her death from Oculus escalator

By Larry Celona, Kevin Fasick and Abigail Gepner February 11, 2017 | 10:19am | Updated

 

http://nypost.com/2017/02/11/woman-falls-to-her-death-at-world-trade-centers-oculus/

 

 

 

i stopped in the lowline lab exhibit again before it closes at the end of the month.

 

hopefully something comes of the idea:

 

http://ny.curbed.com/2017/1/30/14439070/lower-east-side-lowline-nyc-park

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

there is a nice article in the nytimes that runs down current big projects in the bronx:

 

 

 

The Bronx Is Building

 

By C.J. HUGHESMARCH 3, 2017

 

 

Affordable Housing Boom in the Bronx

 

On parking lots, rubbly plots and the occasional community garden, the Bronx seems awash in new apartments.

 

New market-rate housing is still pretty scarce, and most of what is rising are apartments priced as affordable housing, aimed at those who can’t pay market rates. Across the South Bronx, in a miniboom, several thousand affordable rental apartments are under construction or planned, according to developers, brokers and city officials.

 

Fueled by a growing population, new government policies and relatively cheap land, they add, these developments seem far more sophisticated than many that came before. Like their free-market counterparts, they’re arriving with shops and restaurants, rooftop farms and concert halls, and, their supporters say, are taking the revival of once down-and-out areas to another level.

 

 

more:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/03/realestate/the-bronx-is-building.html?hpw&rref=realestate&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region&region=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0

i stopped in the lowline lab exhibit again before it closes at the end of the month.

 

hopefully something comes of the idea:

 

http://ny.curbed.com/2017/1/30/14439070/lower-east-side-lowline-nyc-park

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HAHAHA, did a little kid write "A scam" on the board near the center-top?

^ ha!

 

 

 

here's a recent view of long island city queens -- it will be getting a new tallest at some point called the court square city view -- nothing thrilling, but its 800+ condos:

 

http://skyrisecities.com/news/2017/01/long-island-city-get-new-tallest-building

 

 

 

 

 

citypoint phase three tower in downtown brooklyn is at long last under way, its 700' within in the 2Msq ft citypoint development on the old albee square mall site

 

 

 

 

and lastly for now, lots going on in jersey city these days -- for example, this grouping is liberty north harbor/crescent park:

 

 

 

 

 

this is common with renders but a but funnier in this case.

 

zaha hadid's company designed this tower for trump's son in law kushner for the appropriately devilish 666 fifth avenue address.

 

but -- they left out something in the render -- so somebody made a 2.0 version and added it back in:

 

I was never much fond of the vast majority of Zaha's work and considered it impersonal crap that has no business in an urban environment, but the firm definitely lost what little ability it had to design actual usable architecture when she died. This building is trash. I really hope this falls through because that is a terrible design. 53W53rd would also outshine it everyday of the week.

watch the largest continuous concrete pour in the history of manhattan --

 

its 4200 cubic yards -- for the one vanderbilt tower:

 

 

welp -- 9 dekalb in downtown brooklyn is officially u/c. they are digging away and stuff is sticking up out of the ground. woo hoo! one of my very favorite new towers. it will be fun to watch it go up and to see the facade and all that.

 

 

 

 

 

somebody made a list of 26 more new 1000-footers that are in various stages of planning or getting started -- that is just crazy talk:

 

1. 80 South Street, 1,438ft (438m)

2. 666 5th Avenue, 1,400ft (427m)

3. Shvo Central Park Tower, 1,320ft+ (400m+)

4. 335 Madison Avenue, 1,320ft+ (400m+)

5. 151 East 60th Street, 1,240ft (378m)

6. 15 Penn Plaza, 1,216ft (371m) [stale Proposal]

7. Two Manhattan West, 1,216ft (371m) *

8. 1 Park Lane, 1,210ft (369m)

9. 41 West 57th Street, 1,200ft+ (366m+)

10. 45 Broad Street, 1,127ft (344m) *

11. Hudson Yards Phase II Supertall, 1,100ft+ (335m+)

12. 520 West 41st Street, 1,100ft (335m) *

13. 262 5th Avenue, 1,050ft (320m)

14. 247 Cherry Street, 1,008ft (307m)

15. The Spiral, 1,005ft (306m)

16. 386 Flatbush Avenue, 1,000ft (305m)

17. 360 10th Avenue 1,000ft+ (305m+)

18. 237 Park Avenue, 1,000ft+ (305m+)

19. 341 Madison Avenue, 1,000ft+ (305m+)

20. 31 West 57th Street, 1,000ft+ (305m+)

21. Cetra Ruddy UES Tower, 1,000ft+ (305m+)

22. 1710 Broadway, 1,000ft+ (305m+)

23. 740 8th Avenue, 1,000ft+ (305m+)

24. 144 West 34th Street, 1,000ft+ (305m+)

25. 562-570 5th Ave, 1,000ft+ (305m+)

26. 989-993 6th Ave, 1,000ft+ (305m+)

 

 

9 DeKalb is already a classic.