April 6, 20178 yr One of my friends from high school started a beer bicycle delivery service in Brooklyn: https://www.crowlerman.com/ Who is this guy? It's the Arby's good mood food guy. Yes I went to high school with that guy. He was pitching roast beef back in 2011 and now he's delivering beer by bicycle.
April 6, 20178 yr OH NO! NOT THE GOOD MOOD FOOD GUY!!! "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
April 6, 20178 yr OH NO! NOT THE GOOD MOOD FOOD GUY!!! He's back. And he's delivering beer by bicycle. And he didn't come to either of our last two reunions.
April 7, 20178 yr Author this is pretty cool news via the construction folks -- the bases that hold the struts for the ny wheel are in & the struts will go up soon.
April 7, 20178 yr It's the height of Columbus' Rhodes Tower. Nice. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
April 7, 20178 yr Author also interesting. tishman-speyer wants to rebuild downtown brooklyn macys and add a ten story office section to it. macys would remain on the bottom four floors and the art deco facade and details would be preserved. more: http://ny.curbed.com/2017/4/5/15185542/downtown-brooklyn-macys-tishman-speyer-office this render shows a condo tower, but i dk if that part is happening
April 7, 20178 yr Author It's the height of Columbus' Rhodes Tower. Nice. the dubai eye or ain dubai is 860' tall. they dont mention that one of course. ha. i believe its much further along too, like the spindles are up? more: http://www.emirates247.com/news/oasis-in-sky-new-facts-about-world-s-largest-ferris-wheel-in-dubai-2016-06-23-1.633759 https://dubaiposter.com/blog/dubai-eye-ferris-wheel-updates/
April 20, 20178 yr Author a blurb about one vanderbilt tower construction: Vertical construction for the 1.7 million-square-foot, 58-floor building is slated to begin in early May. In February, workers poured 4,200 cubic yards of concrete into the foundation at One Vanderbilt, which marked the largest single continuous pour in New York City history. Banker Steel will be erecting steel that is fabricated at plants located in South Plainfield, New Jersey and Lynchburg, Virginia. Steel erection is scheduled to begin July, 2017. more: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/one-vanderbilt-moves-toward-vertical-132800348.html
April 20, 20178 yr Author this one is a complex of two towers, with 900 mixed income apts, 200k sq ft office space, culture space, a school and more for downtown brooklyn - its called 80 flatbush more: http://ny.curbed.com/2017/4/3/15169318/downtown-brooklyn-development-alloy-80-flatbush this taller one kind of looks like a modern take on the cle breuer.
May 12, 20178 yr Author the penn hotel Pelli Clarke Pelli tower is back in the mix: Hotel Pennsylvania could still be replaced by a supertall office tower Plans once called for a 1,216-feet Pelli Clarke Pelli-designed office building BY TANAY WARERKAR MAY 10, 2017, 10:30AM EDT more: https://ny.curbed.com/2017/5/10/15609528/hotel-pennsylvania-vornado-supertall-office down in the seaport 80 south st supertall seems to be happening at last, it could go to 1436': Demolition permits signal movement at the South Street site BY ZOE ROSENBERG@ZOE_ROSENBERG MAY 10, 2017, 9:15AM EDT more: https://ny.curbed.com/2017/5/10/15599916/south-street-seaport-supertall-tower-nyc-demolition-permits
June 6, 20178 yr Author another 1000' skinny apt tower on the way its just above madison sq park at 262 fifth avenue/29st
June 15, 20177 yr Author here is a first look at the new penn station west end concourse inside the old farley post office: ARCHITECTURE, ART, DESIGN, FEATURES, MAJOR DEVELOPMENTS, MIDTOWN WEST FIRST LOOK: See inside Penn Station’s brand new West End Concourse more: https://www.6sqft.com/first-look-see-inside-penn-stations-brand-new-west-end-concourse/
June 16, 20177 yr Toronto is in the lime light in regards to the development boom they are having. Not to take anything away from that great city, but New York is currently on a whole other level of badassery (yes I made that a word). New York will always be the king. So much amazing stuff happening right now.
June 16, 20177 yr Author just insanity -- but hey if you got the coin why not?! the recently topped out robert a.m. stern apt bldg at 520 park ave/60th st -- might set a record for most expensive apt in town: Two condos priced at over $70M under contract at Zeckendorf’s 520 Park The six-bedroom duplexes were on sale for between $73M and $83M Contracts for two condominiums asking more than $70 million at Zeckendorf Development’s TRData LogoTINY 520 Park Avenue were signed in the past week. The six-bedroom duplexes on high floors were asking between $73 million and $83 million, the Wall Street Journal reported. ... The 34-unit building, which has a projected sellout of $1.25 billion, features a $130 million penthouse. If the unit sells at that price — and before Vornado Realty Trust’s $250 million condo at 220 Central Park South — it will be the most expensive apartment sale in New York City history. The current record is a unit that sold for $100.5 million at Extell Development’s One57. more: https://therealdeal.com/2017/06/15/two-condos-priced-at-over-70m-under-contract-at-zeckendorfs-520-park/
June 16, 20177 yr Love that pic! Was just in NYC last week. My new favorite building is the General Electric building in the bottom of the picture (Spiky top). But the scale and amount of development going up on and off the island is AMAZING
June 24, 20177 yr Author it has begun! :clap: cool video of the first steel column going in at one vanderbilt tower next to grand central today: and a couple days ago after work i caught a creepy cult meeting in the pit :-o actually that was the developers taking pics :-D
June 24, 20177 yr Author uber developer shelly solow has a big group of waterfront buildings planned for the mammoth empty former con ed lot -- the property runs along first avenue just below the united nations between e38st-41st -- more: https://www.6sqft.com/richard-meier-designed-tower-finally-begins-construction-at-turtle-bay-south-complex/ i think this richard meier bldg that is underway is the first of them -- 685 1st ave at e39st -- and its to be black for a change, not white
June 29, 20177 yr Author this westside manhattan group is called waterline square. its changed ownership, but the architects, richard meier, kpf and rafael vinoly and the construction team have stayed the same. about 1000 condos and rentals -- its going up at west 59st-61st. the waterline social club by rockwell group more: https://www.cityrealty.com/nyc/market-insight/features/future-nyc/new-renderings-amp-details-upper-west-side039s-incredible-waterline-square/11806
August 7, 20177 yr One of my former roommates and bandmates has run a thriving online toilet tank lid business for the past ten years. He travels somewhere once or twice a month to buy all of a plumber's toilet tank lids. This weekend it was this spot: Here his his site: http://cheaptoilettanklids.com/store/index.php?route=common/home
August 7, 20177 yr ...why is there such a disproportionate difference between the number of old toilets available and number of old toilet tank lids available? Do plumbers just toss the toilet but save the lid? I had no idea this was a thing. Good on him for finding a weird niche to thrive in.
August 7, 20177 yr Yeah, everyone knows that the lids are more valuable than the toilets. Many of the old toilets stopped being manufactured decades ago but they're of course still out there, waiting for that moment when somebody breaks the lid. I remember attempting to fix our toilet when I was a kid, leaning the lid against the bathroom wall, and sure enough it slid down and broke. My dad found a replacement at a junk yard after a week or two of going lidless. He has gotten huge numbers of lids when apartment complexes, dorms, etc. are torn down. A lot of times he is able to get them for free or for $5 or less and he sells them for $50.
August 8, 20177 yr Author ask him how many times he pulls the lid to off to find, omg, sheesh that was some party, somebody pulled the 'ol upper decker again.
August 8, 20177 yr Moderators, I'm mindful that this is way off-topic... Anyway, as far as I know it's illegal to install old "big flush" toilets. Maybe some states still allow it, and there are probably some plumbers who will install them in any case. In the past, I've been in the market for old toilets and especially old tank lids for our 100+ year-old apartment building. But I gave up and gave in to new toilets, especially since American Standard had a model (Portsmouth/Townsend) that looked like an old style, and with a tall tank. Unfortunately it was discontinued. Story of my life. Toto makes one that's styled like an old one but the tank isn't as tall. The tall tanks help to conceal holes in the marble wainscoting that the old toilets caused, plus the taller toilets look better in bathrooms like ours with high ceilings. Jake, there's a vendor on eBay, "birdcycle" who sells old tank lids for BIG bucks. You may want to tell your friend he could charge even more -- birdcycle's asking $195 for an American Standard lid I could use!
August 12, 20177 yr Author this 68 story avalonbay blockbuster building underway uptown in east harlem has 1100 units and three high schools: https://ny.curbed.com/2017/8/10/16127652/east-harlem-avalonbay-city-council-subcommittee
August 17, 20177 yr Author ^nice, but can we get back to the toilet lids now? ok - back to toilets! https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/maurizio-cattelan-america
August 17, 20177 yr Author this one is downtown in manhattan, 118 fulton st. its 63 stories and about 500 rental apts. its about 2/3rds built so far. https://ny.curbed.com/2017/8/16/16156838/118-fulton-street-construction-slce-rental
August 23, 20177 yr Author after around three years of work, two of the five buildings in flushing commons in queens are ready to come online. not too flashy -- looks nice and normal. https://ny.curbed.com/2017/8/22/16183426/flushing-commons-first-phase-completion
August 23, 20177 yr Author rezoning was approved to build up far rockaway, queens. it covers 23 blocks and could bring 3k apts. the city owned land developments will stay 100% affordable housing. no mention of an ocean dike though... https://therealdeal.com/2017/08/22/city-council-land-use-committee-passes-far-rockaway-rezoning/
August 23, 20177 yr Author remarkably, some of one vanderbilt tower next to grand central is at street level already -- and its getting its giant cranes: https://ny.curbed.com/2017/8/18/16170788/one-vanderbilt-cranes-construction-update
August 23, 20177 yr Author oh boy now this is really something. its a new marriott edition hotel in times square. its a 500 footer and it just topped out in the spring, so it's still u/c. its nothing of note -- except that it has an 18k sq ft led screen around its base. and i heard they just turned it on today -- definitely need to check it out! :-o https://www.yimbynews.com/2017/03/42-story-452-key-edition-hotel-tops-out-at-701-seventh-avenue-times-square.html
August 24, 20177 yr Author well i walked through ts today, so here is this bigazz screen. its definately stunningly biggly. the only thing on it at the moment are test screens by the company that made it.
August 25, 20177 yr not NYC but a few miles up the Hudson, the new Tappan Zee Bridge (named after Mario Cuomo. hmmmm... :roll:) is set to open http://www.mainstreetpainesville.org/
September 13, 20177 yr Author the new cornell tech college campus on roosevelt island officially opens today: http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/cornell-tech-part-nyc-silicon-alley-article-1.3490764
September 13, 20177 yr Author here is what it looks like -- i think bloomberg personally funded some of it:
October 1, 20177 yr How "Never Built New York" got built https://trib.al/QRVh3NK "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
October 2, 20177 yr Author the spectacular terracotta bronze facade is going up on 111 west 57 street --
October 11, 20177 yr Author here is something interesting -- new brunswick, nj has this really nifty, but old, kpf designed tod/transit village project that seems to finally be getting underway -- we will see what happens: And now, we have fresh renderings of the plan for The Hub, which Kohn Pedersen Fox is designing. To date, high-rise development in New Brunswick has been dominated by budget and auto-oriented design, but The Hub breaks from this phenomenon, both in terms of format and appearance. Standard new towers in New Brunswick are typically situated atop large parking podiums, with bland facades and awkward massing. While the infill development is still a net positive for the city, a more urban-friendly approach is required if the city is to live up to its full potential. Two approximately 300-foot tall towers rise from a podium that includes retail space, and the 1.7 million square foot project can be adapted to suit the needs of office, tech, or academic tenants. The shorter tower will be residential. The project is being developed by the New Brunswick Development Corp., a partnership between government and the city’s largest employers (including Johnson & Johnson and Rutgers University’s flagship campus), which is the driving force behind development downtown. a current view from the hub project/cam http://www.thehubnewbrunswick.com/live-camera.html
October 12, 20177 yr That is GREAT news. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
October 31, 20177 yr Author on the affordable housing front --- chestnut commons will be the first to go up along the newly rezoned atlantic ave corridor in east ny brooklyn -- di blasio wants to build a ton of affordable housing along here: East New York’s getting a 274-unit passive affordable building by Dattner Apartments will come in studio through three-bedroom variants BY TANAY WARERKAR OCT 27, 2017, 2:18PM EDT One of the first new affordable developments set to rise following the rezoning of East New York is Chestnut Commons, a 274-unit development designed by Dattner Architects. Located in a large vacant lot bounded by Dinsmore Place, Chestnut Street, and Atlantic Avenue, the building will be built to passive house standards and serve very low-income New Yorkers; about 80 apartments will be set aside for families making up to $25,770 annually... ... The building will feature a mix of studios, one, two, and three-bedrooms. On the upper end of the income spectrum, apartments will be open to families making up to $51,540 annually. more: https://ny.curbed.com/2017/10/27/16560700/east-new-york-affordable-housing
October 31, 20177 yr Author here is the first russian 1000' apt bldg in town - the lot is cleared and its under way: New Look At Manhattan’s First Russian-Designed Supertall 262 Fifth Avenue, Midtown South The super-slender tower had initial applications filed about thirteen months ago, and demolition since then has been fairly swift, with two structures at 262 and 264 Fifth Avenue since disappearing. 260 Fifth Avenue will be integrated into the base of the project. Boris Kuzinez of Five Points Development is the developer, and Moscow based Meganom is the architect. As described to YIMBY, “A bold, sleek aluminum and glass skin will be perforated with wide porthole windows on its eastern exterior. On the north and south, floor-to-ceiling window walls will have uninhibited panoramic views of the city and beyond.” The building will stand 1,009 feet to its parapet, soaring well above neighboring projects. more: https://newyorkyimby.com/2017/10/new-look-at-supertall-262-fifth-avenue-midtown-south.html
November 13, 20177 yr Author the developers put up this ridiculous north view to be for 111 west 57st
November 13, 20177 yr Author meanwhile, over in new haven, you really cant beat the new traditional residential for yale. its mostly all laid brickwork, with a few prefabbed sections, like the vaulting. really, really stunning quality. of course stern is the architect, is there anyone else who do this right? much more info & pics: https://newresidentialcolleges.yale.edu/construction-update-progress-new-colleges
November 13, 20177 yr ^Yale has a $25 billion+ (!) endowment fund >:(. They can afford it. http://www.mainstreetpainesville.org/
November 13, 20177 yr Author ha yeah of course. a public school in my neighborhood has a pta with millions of dollars in their budget. they run the school and they send the kids to china and australia and stuff. crazy money around here. for some.
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