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New Construction in New York City

•225 W 57th Street (1,550* ft) [site prep]
•One World Trade Center 1,368 ft (+ antenna for 1,776 ft) (2013) T/O
•432 Park Ave. 1,398 ft U/C
•One Manhattan West (1,216 ft) [prep]
•175 Greenwich St. Three World Trade Center 1,155 ft. U/C [retail base U/C]
•200 Greenwich St. Two World Trade Center 1,339 ft. U/C [tower on hold]
•One57 1,005 ft. (2012) T/O
•Four World Trade Center 977 ft. (2012) T/O
•Two Manhattan West (935+ ft) [prep]
•30 Park Place – Four Seasons Hotel & Tower 926 ft. [new financing, likely 2013 restart]
•Hudson Yards South Tower (Coach Building) (895 ft) U/C
•56 Leonard Street (821 ft) U/C
•1715 Broadway Marriott hotel (753 ft) T/O
•250 East 57th Street (715 ft) [retail/school base completed, tower to follow]
•610 Lexington Avenue (712 ft) [site prep]
•605 West 42nd St (660 ft) U/C
•20 West 53rd Street Baccarat Hotel (610 ft) U/C
•160 West 62nd Street (621 ft) U/C
•160 W. 62nd St. Fordham Lincoln Center tower (598 ft) U/C
•Avalon 88 Willoughby St. Brooklyn (596 ft ) U/C
•Hyatt Times Sq. 135 W. 45th St (555 ft) T/O
•237 W.54th St. (550* ft) U/C
•"The Hub" Brooklyn (545 ft) U/C
•388 Bridge St BK (528 ft) U/C
•303 E 51st St (504 ft) [restarted] U/C
•50 UN Plaza (500* ft) U/C
•29 Flatbush Avenue (Downtown Brooklyn) 489 ft U/C
•99 Washington St. Holiday Inn (488 ft) U/C
•855 6th Ave. [plans reworked]
•Riverside Center (480 ft) [prep]
•20 W. 53rd St 45 story Hotel (480 ft) U/C
•400 Park Avenue South (476 ft) [site prep]
•Linc LIC (470* ft) T/O
•309 Fifth Ave. (452 ft) T/O
•625 W.57th 'Pyramid' (450 ft) U/C
•46-15 Center Blvd LIC EastCoast (450* ft) T/O
•Two Sutton Place North (443 ft) U/C
•3 Northside Piers (440* ft) [prep]
•23 E. 22nd St. Rem Koolhaas [work begun on 6 story base]
•Linc LIC (430 ft) T/O
•43-10 Crescent St Queens 429 ft (2014) [awaiting start 2012]
•45-45 Center Blvd LIC EastCoast 420* ft (2013) T/O
•1 North 4th Place at Nortside piers (398 ft) [prep]
•Oro II 313 Gold Street (373 ft) U/C
•23 E.22nd St. (351 ft)
•Citypoint Phase II Brooklyn (350* ft ) [prep]
•The Charles 1355 1st Ave. (345* ft) U/C
•113 Nassau (330* ft) U/C
•Willow Hotel 120 W. 57th St (330* ft) T/O
•500 W 30th St (325 ft) T/O
•301 E. 50th St (300* ft) U/C
•237 W.54th St. (280* ft) U/C
•180 Orchard St. Hotel Indigo (276 ft) [prep]
•6 Platt St. 27 story Sheraton hotel (273 ft) U/C
•451 Lexington hotel (263 ft) U/C
•Fordham Law School and dorms 250* ft (2013-14) T/O
•325 W 33rd St Marriott Hotel (240 ft) U/C
•Pace University dormitory (240 ft) U/C
•240 Manhattan Ave. (235* ft) U/C
•Archer New York Hotel (230* ft) U/C
•150 Charles St. (175* ft) U/C
•Columbia U. Manhattanville campus (2011-14) U/C
•Fiterman Hall – 30 West Broadway (2012) T/O
•Fulton Street Transit Center (2012) T/O
•Lincoln Center Redevelopment - (2011-15) U/C
•World Trade Center Memorial (2013) U/C
•World Trade Center Transportation Hub (2013-15) U/C
•51 Astor Place (>200 ft) T/O


Tallest Proposed

•225 W 57th Street (1,550* ft) [site prep]
•The GiraSole (up to 1,500* ft) [on hold, 2016]
•200 Greenwich Street – World Trade Center Tower #2 (1,339 ft) [tower on hold]
•Related Hudson Yards North Tower (1,337 ft)
•One Manhattan West (1,216 ft) [prep]
•175 Greenwich Street – World Trade Center Tower #3 (1,155 ft) [tower on hold, base U/C]
•Tower Verre at 53 West 53rd Street (1,050 ft) [supertructure out for bid]
•80 South St. (1,018 ft) [redesign-a-go-go]
•447 10th Ave Sherwood Equities (1,000* ft) [awaiting tennant]
•51 E.42nd St. (1,000* ft) [1 Vanderbilt]
•Related Hudson Yards Equinox Tower (950 ft)
•Two Manhattan West (935 ft) [prep]
•30 Park Place – Four Seasons Hotel & Tower (926 ft) [on hold]
•107 W. 57th St (900* ft) [redesign with added air rights]
•Hudson Yards South Tower (Coach Building) (895 ft) [site prep]
•One Hudson Yards (877 ft)
•Related Hudson Yards E Tower "The Corset" (844 ft)
•56 Leonard Street (821 ft) [Fall 2012]
•360 Tenth Avenue (774 ft) [new owner, awaiting plans]
•685 1st Ave. Con Ed site (721 ft) [plans on hold]
•WTC Tower #5 [site changes]
•50 West Street (714 ft) [redesign underway]
•610 Lexington Avenue (712 ft) [site prep]
•45 Broad St. Nobu (710 ft)
•700 First Avenue – Con Ed Redevelopment Site (702 ft) [on hold]
•45 E. 60th St. (700+* ft)
•514 11th St. Silverstein residential tower (700* ft)
•250 East 57th Street (715 ft) [retail/school base nearing completion, tower to follow]
•425 Park Ave (700+ ft) [likely skyscraper redevelopment]
•708 1st Ave. Con Ed site (688 ft) [plans on hold]
•City Point Brooklyn tower 1 (680 ft) [plans on hold]
•111 Washington St. (670* ft)
•605 West 42nd St (660 ft) revived U/C
•700 First Avenue Tower 1 Con Ed Site (650 ft) [plans on hold]
•22 Thames St. (637 ft)
•700 1st Ave Tower 2-1 Con Ed site (606 ft) [plans on hold]
•Queens Street Apartments (LIC) (600* ft)
•Silver Cup West – Tower 1 – (Hunters Point) (600 ft) [on hold]
•220 Central Park South (577 ft) [demo]
•250 West 55th Street (561 ft) [U/C]
•551 10th Ave (556 ft) [Extell residential tower]
•135 West 45th Street Hyatt Hotel (550 ft)
•450 Hudson Blvd. (550* ft)
•124 W.57th St JDS tower (550* ft) [work could begin soon]
•120 Fulton St. (550* ft)
•158 Madison Avenue (540 ft) [revived as 50 story rentals]
•175 W. 60th St. Fordham Tower 2 (533 ft)
•Silver Cup West – Tower 2 – (Hunters Point) (532 ft) [on hold]
•17 West End Ave. Riverside South (529 ft)
•606 W. 57th St. (525* ft)
•10 UN Plaza (520* ft) [on hold]
•Ruppert Tower (520* ft)
•Silver Cup West – Tower 3 – (Hunters Point) (517 ft) [on hold]
•131-139 W 45th St Hotel (515 ft)
•43-25 Hunter St. LIC (509 ft) [formerly 10 Court sq.]
•616 1st Ave. Con Ed site (506 ft) [site prep]
•120 Fulton St. Lightstone (500* ft)
•Riverside Center 1 (500+ ft)
•Riverside Center Parcel 2 (480* ft) [final plans released]
•Riverside Center 3 (500* ft)
•Green Hotel Williamsburg (500 ft)
•5 Pointz Tower 1 (498 ft)
•158 Madison Avenue Sundari Lofts (495 ft) [plans revived]
•828 Washington Street (490* ft)
•855 6th Ave. (485* ft)
•151 Maiden Lane (480* ft)
•400 Park Avenue South (476 ft) [site prep]
•W57 (467 ft)
•Rockrose LIC (460+ ft) 42 story apartment bldg. at 24-02 43rd Ave.
•Domino Sugar Brooklyn (450-60ft.) [plans being redrawn]
•222 E 93rd St apartments Ruppert Playground (450 ft) [approval not secured]
•625 W.57th 'Pyramid' (450 ft) [approved, site prep]
•23-01 42nd rd. LIC (450* ft) [Eagle Electric site]
•Brooklyn Arts Tower (Downtown Brooklyn) (447 ft)
•7 Bryant (441 ft) [work starts soon]
•5 Pointz Tower 2 (440 ft)
•577 Ninth Avenue (439 ft)
•City Point Brooklyn phase 2 (435* ft) [revived for 2015-16]
•Harlem Park (435* ft) [plans being reworked]
•616 1st Ave. Tower 2 Con Ed site (433 ft) [site prep]
•175 Broadway BK hotel (430* ft)
•Marriott Edition Hotel Times Square (430* ft)
•Rockrose apartments 43-10 Crescent St Queens (429 ft)
•Duarte Square Tower (429 ft) [hudson square area]
•509 W. 38th St. (425 ft)
•40 Riverside Blvd (415 ft*)
•215 W 34th St hotel (410* ft)
•701 Seventh Ave. (405* ft)
•136 W. 42nd St. Bush Terminal Hotel (404 ft) [site prep]
•Cadman Plaza BPL redevelopment (400* ft) [very preliminary]
•Greenpoint Landing (10 x 300*-400* ft) [redesigned, work begins late 2013]
•BAM mixed use project (400* ft) [approved]
•162 Myrtle Avenue (Brooklyn) (400 ft)
•1 North 4th Place at Nortside piers (398 ft) [prep]
•77 Commercial St. (350*-450* ft)
•1146 6th Ave. (380* ft)
•24-05 Jackson Ave. (385 ft)
•5th Ave and 31st St apartment tower (380* ft)
•Tribeca Associates MoMa Hotel (380+ ft)
•28-10 Jackson Ave QN (370 ft)
•311 Gold BK (367 ft)
•461 Dean St. Atlantic Yards - 'B2' 33 fl. (360* ft) App
•500 W.30th St. (360* ft) [begins soon]
•150 W. 57th St (356 ft)
•985 Madison (355 ft)
•125 E. 85th St (355 ft)
•172 Madison (350* ft)
•CUNY-MSK Medical Center (350* ft)
•The Charles 1355 1st Ave. (350* ft) [financing secured]
•237 W 54th St Moinian Group hotel (350* ft)
•133 Greenwich St. Hotel (350* ft)
•Related Hudson Yards apartment tower (350* ft)
•11 E.31st St hotel (345* ft)
•Harlem Park (340 ft)
•20 W. 40th St. (340* ft)
•270 Spring St. Hudson Square (330* ft)
•Hallets Point Astoria Queens; 7 towers (330 ft) [starts 2013]
•Fairfield Hotel South St Seaport (330 ft) [site prep]
•Times Sq. hotel Friedman-Landis (325* ft)
•45-56 Pearson St. (321 ft)
•301 W.46th St. (320* ft)
•Hudson Square Tower (320* ft)
•Atlantic Yards - Building 4 (Downtown Brooklyn) [project redesigned]
•Atlantic Yards - Building 7 (Downtown Brooklyn) [revised modular design]
•Victoria Theater Harlem (310* ft) approved
•44-02 Vernon Blvd LIC (300 ft x2, 100 ft x4) [in foreclosure]
•101 W.28th St. (296 ft)
•Herald Square hotel 218 W. 35th St (290* ft)
•215 Pearl St. Marriott (290* ft)
•44-41 Purves St. LIC (285* ft)
•414 W. 15th St. MePa hotel (284 ft)
•Astoria Cove (280* ft)
•215 Chrystie St. Ian Schrager hotel (280* ft)
•180 Orchard St. Hotel Indigo (276 ft) [prep]
•Riu Plaza Hotel (275* ft) [site purchased]
•325 Lexington (272* ft)
•Peter Poon Chinatown hotel (270* ft) [plans being reworked]
•507 W.28th St. (270* ft)
•Memorial Sloan-Kettering extension (261 ft) [approved]
•85 Flatbush Avenue Extension (256 ft)
•98 Greenwich St. hotel ex-Sam Chang (250* ft)
•39 W.23rd St. (245* ft) [pope's hat]
•626 Flatbush Ave. (236 ft)
•30 W.46th St. (229 ft)
•200 E. 39th St. (220* ft)
•437 W.13th St. High line Tower (201 ft)
•170 Amsterdam Ave. (200* ft)
•280 Cadman Plaza West BPL site [possible tower]
•249 W.28th St. apartments [awaiting plans]
•20 Times Square [tower agreement falls through, awaiting new bids]
•688 Broadway condos

Other Projects planned or under construction

•SPURA Seward Park Area redevelopment [Approved]
•Hudson Square [approved]
•Staten Island Wheel [World's largest ferris wheel]
•S.I. Outlet Mall [plans released]
•Queens soccer stadium [SHoP architects chosen]
•Columbia U. Manhattanville campus (2011-2014) U/C
•High Line Park Phase III (2013)
•South St. Seaport Pier 17 redevelopment [Tower put off]
•Atlantic Terminal Transit Hub (Brooklyn) (2010)
•Brooklyn Bridge Park – Phase I (2011)
•East River Greenway (2010-2020)
•61 Fifth Ave.
•NYU DoBro (2013-14) [approved]
•NYU Greenwich Village expansion [ammended plan approved]
•Fiterman Hall – 30 West Broadway (2012) T/O
•Fulton Street Transit Center (2012) T/O
•LaGuardia Central Terminal redevelopment (2013-16)
•Willets Point redevelopment [site acquisition]
•Moynihan Station [awaiting lease]
•Fordham Law School and dorms, Lincoln Center campus (2013-14) T/O
•Cornell Technion Campus at Roosevelt Island (2013-2015)
•World Trade Center Memorial (2012) U/C
•World Trade Center Transportation Hub (2014-15) U/C
•South St Seaport redevelopment [plans being finalized]
•Aqueduct racino/convention center [casino revamp underway, convention center scrapped]
•5 Franklin Place On Hold [restart soon]
•Whitney MePa T/O
•Willets Point (2012-2017) [site prep]
•St Vincents Hospital condo redevelopment [approved]
•Temple Court restoration (hotel) [sale complete]
•Chelsea Market expansion office/hotel [approved]
•Sugar Hill Children's Museum W.155th St. U/C


On The Radar

•530-34 W.58th St. Sam Chang-infected
•210 W.77th St. UWS Hertz garage
•51 Jay St. Dumbo [150k buildble]
•260 W.78th St. [extell deal for collegiate school]
•511-515 W.36th St [96k buildable]
•14-01 14-19 Broadway LIC [81k buildable]
•44-30 Purves St. [214k buildable]
•357 West St. Ian Schrager hotel [89k]
•835 Myrtle Ave. BK [350k buildable]
•504-518 Myrtle Ave. BK Silverstone
•23-01 42nd Rd. Eagle Electric [40 story tower possible]
•58-60 E.86th St. Glenwood
•138 E. 50th St., 149 E. 49th St. Extell [924,000sq ft. potential]
•122-130 East 23rd Street [200k resy]
•101 Murray St. (St. John's) Tribeca [300k buildable]
•321 E.96th St. SCTE site in Harlem
•210 W.61st st. PS 191
•380 Madison Ave. [midtown east rezoning bait]
•270 W.70th St. PS199
•626 Flatbush [254 unit resy]
•953-961 1st Ave. Toll Bros [161 unit resy]
•43-22 Queens St. LIC [500k rights]
•507 W.27th St.; 514 W.28th St. Related [241k combined buildable]
•320 W.36th St. et.al. [hotel planned]
•529 Broadway Thor Equities [48k buildable]
•237 Park Ave. [midtown east rezoning bait]
•43-25 Hunter St. LIC [975 unit tower to be built]
•222 Avenue A and 504-530 East 14th Street redevelopment
•541-545 W. 37th St., 540-544 W.38th St. [373k buildable]
•1683 3rd Ave. Extell [possible skyscraper]
•701 Seventh Ave. [30 story hotel]
•71 Smith St. Brooklyn [315k permit]
•175 Madison Ave. [120k+ buildable] in the courts...
•132-142 W.27th St. [118k buildable]
•227 Cherry St. LES [1 million sq. ft. residential]
•421 Kent Ave. Brooklyn [400k buildable]
•546 W.44th St. [220k buildable]
•743-768 8th Ave. [320k buildable]
•11th Ave & W. 36th-37th Sts. [800k-1mln sq ft buildable]
•706 Madison Ave. [50k rights]
•528-534 W.39th St. Rockrose [1.4 mln buildable]
•5 WTC [reconfigured site, resy probable]
•51 E.42nd St. SL Green supertall site [1.2+m sq ft buildable]
•75 Schermerhorn Brooklyn [prime site]
•332 W 44thSt [up to 650,000 sq ft possible]
•38-44 W 36th St [hotel planned]
•1162 2nd Ave [45k possible]
•460 Washington St. Tribeca 10 story residential
•425 Park Ave [major replacement/expansion]
•429 W 36th Extell
•430 W 37th Extell
•434 W 37th Extell
•554 W 38th St [Hudson Yards 320k buildable]
•462-470 11th Ave [Hudson yards 320k buildable]
•140 W. 28th St. [170k buildable]
•156-158 Bleeker Tishman Speyer [retail+]
•421 Kent Av Brooklyn [443k possible]
•45-50 24th St LIC [320k buildable, previous plans were for a 40 story rental tower]
•516-520 Fifth Ave Joe Sitt [retail base + tower 300k building]
•237 Park Ave [1.5 million Sq ft buildable]
•341 Canal St Soho [calls for new proposals]


Projects Recently Completed

•International Gem Tower at 55 West 46th St. (2013)
•250 W. 55th St. (2013)
•Mercedes House (2013)
•MSG renovation (2013)
•45-40 Center Blvd LIC EastCoast (2012)
•Barclays Center Arena (2012)
•Mt Sinai Hosp/Durst-Fetner Tower 4 102 St. (2012)
•605 West 42nd (2011)
•Battery Park City (1980-2011)
•John Jay College of Criminal Justice Expansion (2011)
•8 Spruce Street - "New York By Frank Gehry" (2011)
•605 West 42nd Street (2011)
•440 West 42nd Street (2011)
•The Setai (2010)
•MiMa (2011)
•One Madison Park (2009) [interior work ongoing]
•100 Eleventh Avenue a.k.a. Jean Nouvel’s Vision Machine (2010)
•111 Lawrence Street (Downtown Brooklyn) (2010)
•Atlantic Terminal Transit Hub (Brooklyn) (2010)
•Avalon Fort Greene (Brooklyn) (2010)
•Brooklyn Bridge Park – Phase I (2010)
•Clinton Park – 770 11th Ave @ 53rd & 54th (2010)
•Cassa NY at 70 West 45th Street (2010)
•Cooper-Hewitt Museum Expansion (2010)
•East River Science Park (2010)


Recent Cancellations

•15 Penn Plaza (1,215 ft) [cancelled, Hotel Pennsylvania to be renovated]
•23 E. 22nd St. (340* ft) Rem Koolhaas [replaced by 6 story filler]
•One Madison Avenue (937 ft) [cancelled 2009]
•20 Times Sq. Port Authority Bus Terminal Tower (850* ft) [may be revisited later]

*estimated height

For more local info:
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More info: http://lowermanhattan.info/construct...eet_33450.aspx

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[desertpunk]

From Curbed: http://ny.curbed.com/

Here's a rundown of ongoing and stalled projects in Tribeca and Soho as of earlier this year. (hint: not much has changed see below)

Arrested Development

Tribeca and Soho Sales Report: What's Stalled, What's Selling
Thursday, February 11, 2010, by Sara

The Post takes a long look today at the state of arrested development in Tribeca and Soho. ("If you were wondering whatever happened to downtown Manhattan, you're not alone. We've been wondering, too." Zing!) And? Tribeca and Soho new developments are now trying the full range of expected recession coping strategies, from denial to choppage. At 56 Leonard, where nothing's happening right now, developer Izak Senbahar still says construction on the "future landmark" will resume within the next year. Nearby 34 Leonard looks done, but it's floating in foreclosure purgatory. So are there any successses? Developers have had better luck at The Fairchild, following price cuts, and at Tribeca Lofts, where apartments without finishes were already a relatively cheap $900/square foot when sales began. The Post has put all the building status updates in handy-dandy chart form, which saves us the trouble.

Here's the snapshot of Tribeca and Soho new development:
STATUS: CANCELED

34 Leonard: Foreclosed

STATUS: ON HOLD

56 Leonard: On hold


Five Franklin Place: On hold


Trump SoHo: Open
STATUS: COMPLETED


Pearline Soap Factory: 7 units, sold out and fully occupied
STATUS: COMPLETED


Fairchild: 13 of 21 units sold, ready in March
STATUS: COMPLETED


V33: 7 units, 5 sold and a contract out for a deal to combine 2
STATUS: COMPLETED

TriBeCa Lofts: 29 units, all but 1 in contract or closed, occupied
TriBeCa Summit: 62 units, about 80 percent sold, occupied
The Smyth Upstairs: 15 units, 11 units sold or in contract, ready next week
STATUS: COMPLETED


SoHo Mews: 68 units, 31 units sold and another in contract, already occupied
One York: 33 units, 25 sold or in contract, already occupied
STATUS: Completed


350 West Broadway: 7 units, all available, ready for occupancy in 60 days
STATUS: COMPLETED


211 Elizabeth: 15 units, 10 closed and another in contract, already occupied

Some recent projects revived from purgatory:

471 Washington
STATUS: U/C
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Foundation work was permitted 3/17/2010.

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240 W. Broadway
STATUS: U/C
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Work stalled but the project has a new owner. Completion set for late 2011.

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500 W 23rd St
STATUS: U/C
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Work is underway on this High Line development

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[desertpunk]

From Curbed:


STATUS: APP

Domino Doesn't Fall

The City Planning Commission voted 13-0 in favor of plans for the New Domino development today, sending the controversial conversion of the old Williamsburg waterfront sugar refinery into a [$1.2 billion] 2,200-unit mini village to the City Council. The area's councilman is no big fan of Domino, and has urged the developers to cut back on the project's density so as not to overwhelm the neighborhood (the City Council often votes in line with the local rep). The developers sound ready for the battle, saying in a statement that cutting back on the market-rate apartments "reduces the needed cross-subsidies and impairs the development’s overall economic viability." You buying that, Gretsch Building residents? [CurbedWire Inbox]

[Cosperus]

annual openhousenewyork weekend

openhousenewyork Weekend, America's largest architect and design event, opens doors throughout New York City each October. The 8th Annual openhousenewyork Weekend will be held October 9 & 10, 2010.

Mark your calendars to discover new neighborhoods, explore with friends and family, and experience NYC's architecture and design in all five boroughs through special talks, tours, performances and family-friendly workshops – all free of charge!

http://ohny.org/

[desertpunk]

From Curbed: http://ny.curbed.com/
STATUS; PROPOSED

UWS Community Board Wary of Accepting Extell's High Five
Friday, June 11, 2010, by Joey



Community Board 7 only has an advisory vote when it comes to the land-use review phase of Riverside Center, but that hasn't stopped the group from laying down the law and telling developer Extell how the Upper West Side megaproject should look. If you recall, Extell wants to take the parking lot on the 59th to 61st Street side of its Riverside South neighborhood and build five towers (with 2,500 apartments and a 250-room hotel), oodles of retail (including a movie theater), a school, a car dealership, an 1,800-space underground parking garage and more. We knew this fight would be a testy one, and the list of complaints regarding the plan is long. But for every problem, there's a suggested fix, like eliminating a whole building! Extell will be cool with that, er, right?

Wait, why are you laughing? >>

In an e-mail alerting constituents to two upcoming public meetings on the plan, CB7 lists a number of "community concerns" about Riverside Center, including its design "as an exclusive enclave built on a 'podium' not integrated with the urban grid," its excess of parking and lack of affordable housing, its not-very-green auto dealership and its public space that is "not welcome, accessible or useful to the public." For that latter issue, and a few others, CB7 recommends removing the 31-story Building 4 from the design (the shortest of the proposed towers). The board would also like to see Riverside Center built at grade, so that West 60th Street can be extended to Riverside Boulevard, instead of becoming the big slip-n-slide Extell has planned.

There are other requests as well, such as that 20% of the apartments remain permanently affordable, but we have a feeling Extell boss Gary Barnett has already stopped reading, so we'll wrap it up. Here CB7's before-and-after comparison:

[HK999]

i thought we already had a thread for this:

NEW YORK | Projects & Construction

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showth...341146&page=80

[desertpunk]

I thought it might be a good idea to have a discussion "closer to home" and maybe get more involvement. The City and Metro Compilation thread seems to have withered since the economy went sour. If a mod would rather the only NYC development discussion occur away from the NY forum, then that's fine. I don't get why, but that's fine.

[HK999]

i'm with you on this one! i'm pretty sure people visit this section of the forum more often than the other one. also i think it's ok to have two threads, we'll see what's more active.

[desertpunk]

From Curbed: http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2010/0...ke_exhaust.php

Neighborhood Names
NYC's Hottest New Neigborhood Smells Like Exhaust
Friday, June 18, 2010, by Joey

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Spurred on by a rezoning and the promise of the Hudson Yards development and 7 train extension, the Far West Side has seen a number of luxurious new buildings, mostly rentals, spring up lately. Only don't call it the Far West Side—call it The Linc, one resident's nickname for the 'hood that the Daily News enthusiastically adopts in a gushing profile on the Midtown micronabe. The Linc, of course, refers to the area's biggest draw, the Lincoln Tunnel, but the "newest emerging nabe" in NYC won't just be known for gridlock and the Javits Center for long. While new restaurants and American Apparels are predicted, the 'hood is "not a place for families, yet," Jason Sheftell writes. Here's the current sitch:

Old meets new meets panhandler. >>
For now, it still has an old New York feel as eccentric locals and a spillover of tourists and colorful panhandlers from the Port Authority Bus Terminal crowd the gritty streets — recently joined by young preprofessionals paying more than $2,500 a month to live in studio apartments in the new crop of luxury rentals. Bars, some new and expensive, others decades old and mangy, are everywhere. A flea market is open at 39th St. and Ninth Ave. every weekend.
Sheftell writes about one local, Daddy Wheelchair, who rolls around "begging for money to support a drug habit he doesn't hide." Funny, we don't remember Daddy Wheelchair being listed among Ohm's amenities

[Litaufen]

meny nice projects wheir could I find that they are U/C or some photos from construction site

[HK999]

NYC construction status (updated list, includes U/C, App, Prep, Pro)

SUPERTALLS

U/C:

- 1WTC (417m roof, 541m spire)
- 157W. 57th St. (306m roof)

Approved:

- Tower Verre (320m roof - needs a redesign, will be built)
- 3WTC (349m roof, 378m spire - construction starting soon, Prep)
- 2WTC (390m roof, 414m spire, construction starting this summer)
- The Gira Sole (305m roof- when they finish the subway tunnel (soon) this will be U/C, Prep)
- Tishman Speyer Towers (336m x 2, on hold, Prep)

Proposed:

- 15 Penn Plaza (365m roof, currently in the approval phase)
- Midtown Towers (371m roof - aka One Manhattan West)
- Brookfield Properties Towers (370m roof, they need to build the platform first)
- New York Tower (305m roof)

SKYSCRAPERS

U/C:

- 4WTC (297m roof)
- 440 West 42nd street (204m roof, still need conformation about the final height)
- 99 Church Street (278m roof, construction started, currently on hold)
- 56 Leonard Street (253m roof, construction started, currently on hold)
- Beekman Tower (267m roof, already T/O)
- The Setai (200m+, already T/O)

Approved:

- 250 East 57th Street (218m roof, Phase I already U/C, Phase II following)
- 366 10th Avenue (236m roof)
- 50 West Street (213m roof, on hold)
- 610 Lexington Avenue (215m roof, on hold)
- 5WTC (228m roof)

Proposed:

- 1 Madison Avenue Addition (285m roof)
- PANYNJ Tower (261m roof)
- 260 12th Avenue Hotel (252m)
- Two Manhattan West (285m roof)

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From Curbed: http://ny.curbed.com/

STATUS: PRO
Lower Manhattan-NYU-Village Love Triangle Heats Up
Tuesday, June 15, 2010, by Sara

Despite some initial skepticism that Community Board 1 really wanted NYU to expand into Lower Manhattan, NYU officials now seem to be seriously considering the World Trade Center and other downtown sites. The Post got hold of a letter from NYU Vice President Lynne Brown that suggests the university is looking at WTC's Tower 5, on the site of the Deutsche Bank building. The Port Authority wants an office tower or a hotel and housing on the site, a match for NYU's plans that sounds almost too good to be true.



What the Tower 5 space wouldn't do, though, is eliminate NYU's desire to build a neighbor-enraging 40-story tower on Bleecker Street. Did we say neighbor-enraging? Yeah—the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation has put some rage on its calendar for Monday night, when the building will face its first public meeting.

GVSHP talking points against the tower include the fact that it would need zoning changes for its proposed use as part faculty housing, part hotel. It would also require "unprecedented approvals" from the Landmarks Preservation Commission (because it's part of the landmarked Silver Towers complex) and would be built on land that is partly public space. Oh, and it would be tall. Just how tall? GVSHP has animated the plans to demonstrate!

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From Curbed: http://ny.curbed.com/

Rumors of Additional NYU Towers Spread as 'Pinwheel' Revealed
Thursday, June 17, 2010, by Joey

The controversial centerpiece of NYU's Greenwich Village expansion plan (which is pretty much all controversial in its own right), the 40-story "Pinwheel Tower", is stepping out of the shadows ahead of an epic fight for survival. NYU wants to drop the hotel/faculty housing building on the Bleecker Street side of I.M. Pei's landmark Silver Towers complex, completing the set of four. Early renderings were released, but today the Wall Street Journal shows off something a bit more advanced from Grimshaw Architects. (UPDATE: Additional renderings in the gallery above).



The Pinwheel is concrete, like Pei's creations, but with floor-to-ceiling windows. The "moderate-priced" hotel rooms on the first 15 floors (there are 38 occupied floors total) are meant for visiting NYU dignitary, but will also be available to the public. You know what Greenwich Village preservationists hate more than big new towers? Big new hotel towers! An hey, speaking of new NYU towers, we haven't heard a good rumor about one in nearly 24 hours. Oh wait, here we go.


Is Big Purple looking to take out Nevada Smiths? >>
East Village soccer football mecca Nevada Smiths is looking to expand to bigger digs, and the bar's manager tells The Villager that he thinks NYU will flatten the bar's current location at 74 Third Avenue and its neighbors (we assume the movie theater on the corner of 11th Street would be spared) to build something big. That's not in NYU's 2031 plan, and the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation's Andrew Berman isn't quite buying that it's NYU behind the plot, but he notes that there's currently a rezoning measure for this very strip of land making its way through official channels, just in case

Watch the video! http://www.marketwatch.com/video/ass...C-652F544EC248

[Middle-Island]

Originally Posted by HK999

i'm with you on this one! i'm pretty sure people visit this section of the forum more often than the other one. also i think it's ok to have two threads, we'll see what's more active.

This is the only real thread thanks to desertpunk. The other thread in City/Metro Compilations hasn't been updated on the lead page since late 2007. That's kind of ridiculous for New York City.

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From Curbed: http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2010/0..._challenge.php

MoMa Mia!
Opponents of MoMA Tower Accuse it of Brooding, Being Tall
Friday, June 18, 2010, by Sara



The war of petitions over Jean Nouvel's shrinking Tower Verre continues, and a tipster passed along the challengers' attorney's latest memo in the case. One of the biggest problems for the MoMA tower's opponents all along has been the developers' environmental impact statement, which they say ignores the real effect of the tower's height on residential buildings in the neighborhood. The most recent memo is a response to the city and developers' legal paperwork, so here, a few of the locals' key arguments against Nouvel's building:

1) The building is tall! Almost four times as tall as the structure previously approved for the same spot: "The differences in terms of (1) blocked views, (2) shadows, (3) consistency with the existing scene and, to be poetic, (4) the brooding omnipresence of the Tower are self-evident."


Brooding omnipresence, huh? What else ya got?! >>
2) The building is really, really tall! "We emphasize that the Hines Tower is not just 'another tall building' among many. As approved at 1,050 feet, it would be the third tallest building in New York City...It would be almost double the height of the next tallest building in the study area."

3) "The Hines Tower would not only be very tall—it would also be very large."

4) The city did not, its opponents say, pick the world's best example to support the MoMA tower when it cited One Madison Park as a successful recent example of a tall and slender building: "What 1 Madison Park does illustrate is how incompatible and damaging a tall, slender modern tower can be to the surrounding neighborhood." (Though fitting in has really been the least of One Mad Park's problems.)

Your move, Jean Nouvel! Is all this just support for the starchitect's theory that New Yorkers are afraid of verticality?

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385 W 12th St. Gets Its Copper!



Superior Ink may lead the condo boom on this block in cash, but its neighbor at 385 West 12th Street leads it in flash. The boutique building from architects/developers FLAnk now has its copper skin in place, and the facade would look pretty bunker-like if not for some big windows thrown in for the folks shelling out the bucks for large apartments and access to the rooftop pool. Recently the building made noise on the sales front, as a number of units went to contract, including a $12.5 million penthouse (marked down from $13.5 million). Now eight units have closed, including that penthouse -curbed

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From Curbed:http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2010/0...ade_center.php


Comedy, Tragedy & Gehry to Live on at World Trade Center
Tuesday, June 22, 2010, by Joey


[Model photo via Gehry Partners.]

The Port Authority was supposed to decide on a developer to buy a stake in the 1 World Trade Center tower today, but while that decision has been put off until July, the PA's board will still handle some serious ground zero redevelopment business at its meeting. We're talking about the fate of the WTC's performing arts center, an overlooked and nearly forgotten component of the original master plan for the site. Now intended to house the Joyce Theater company, the performing arts center is on its ninth life because rapidly progressing WTC infrastructure work threatens to blanket the arts center site before a foundation and other underground elements can be built. But fear not, Frank Gehry fans, the show will go on!

So who's paying the millions? >>
Though the Port Authority and other officials won't comment, both the Times and Journal report a deal has been reached for the city to reimburse the Port Authority for the costs of building the performing arts center's central foundation while there's still time. The tab will run just over $44 million, and the money will come from a $50 million fund controlled by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation.

The LMDC was actually campaigning to move the arts center to the site of the Deutsche Bank Building at 130 Liberty Street, where it would be cheaper and easier to build. However, this deal, expected to be approved by the PA's board today, indicates the original plan—with the center occupying space on the north end of the WTC site next to 1 World Trade Center—is moving forward, complete with Frank Gehry's still-not-quite-revealed design. Those building blocks should get some trademark Franktastic curves soon enough.

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From Curbed: http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2010/0..._villagers.php


NYU Tower Proposal Not So Warmly Welcomed by Villagers
Tuesday, June 22, 2010, by Pete


The NYU plan for a new tower from Grimshaw Architects.


A brave design crew from NYU gave a presentation before Community Board 2 Monday evening to unveil the new 385' Pinwheel Tower NYU hopes will rise over Bleecker Street on the landmarked Silver Towers superblock south of Washington Square Park. This is part of the University's all-consuming NYU 2031 scheme, and locals came out in force, some to question the plan and others to trash the tower. "Remember 1958!" was the rallying cry, in recognition of the victory won by Jane Jacobs and friends when they defeated Robert Moses' plan to ram Fifth Avenue through the middle of Washington Square. This latest neighborhood battle is filled with bureaucratic twists and turns: ULURP looms, and up-zoning from residential to commercial is part of the plan.

What's here that's not to like? >>
NYU's "preferred option" is 270,000-square-foot tower from Grimshaw Architects, "proposed at 38-stories, plus mechanicals" containing both faculty apartments and a university-affiliated hotel. Locals were told that this new design incorporates visual cues from I. M. Pei's landmarked trio of 30-story towers in exposed concrete, and that the addition of a fourth tower strengthens Pei's "Towers in the Park" concept. But, situated as it is above a demapped stretch of Wooster Street, a wiseguy might dub this new one the "Tower in the Driveway."

Big Purple can, as of right, build something shorter and squatter on the plot just to the west, replacing a one-story Morton Williams supermarket at the corner of Bleecker and LaGuardia. To prove how horrible that option would be, NYU has distributed an image of a hulking black mass, looking like it could suck up every bit of light and air north of Houston Street. Instead, by moving the tower a tad to the east, NYU and park experts Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates propose to open up that corner, creating a mega-playground complete with water feature and—OMG—a Slide Mountain! Let's just hope that's not one of those stainless steel kid killers that are suddenly all the rage.

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From curbed: http://archpaper.com/e-board_rev.asp?News_ID=4650

06.23.2010
Extell Has French Kiss for de Portzamparc

Pritzker winner returns to New York with two triumphal projects on behalf of one of its busiest builders

Extell's Riverside Center is one of two major projects by Christian de Portzamparc, with 3 million square feet of the architect's distincively shaped buildings. (Click here to zoom)
Courtesy ExtellChristian de Portzamparc’s name has barely been heard in New York since his LVMH Tower on 57th Street went up in 1999, a harbinger of wave of brand-name architecture that followed, a wave from which the Pritzker Prize winner was conspicuously absent. But while few firms are currently working in New York, Atelier Christian de Potzamparc is poised for a comeback as it gets underway with two of its largest projects to date—and two of the largest anywhere in the city—the Riverside Center and Carnegie 57, both for flourishing diamond-dealer-turned-developer Gary Barnett and his Extell Development Company.



“They’re very reasonable, they’re not prima donnas,” Barnett said in an interview. “We give them all kinds of challenges to hit and they do. They’re creative and also able to handle the challenges of building in New York and designing in New York and keeping the budget in mind while still coming up with something spectacular.”

Both the Riverside Center and Carnegie 57 present considerable challenges. The former occupies the final site at Riverside South, an 8 acre space that was originally designated for a 2 million-square-foot TV studio. Instead, Barnett has proposed a 3-million-square-foot residential complex with six signature crystalline towers by de Portzamparc. The City Planning Commission certified the project on May 24, kicking off the seven-month public review process.

The following day, the announcement of Carnegie 57 made the front page of The New York Times touting that it would become the tallest residential tower in the city at 1,005 feet, surpassing both Frank Gehry’s Beekman Tower (867 feet) and the Trump World Plaza (861 feet). More noteworthy, perhaps, is the fact that the tower, which Barnett hopes will command the highest prices in the city, is coming along at a time when the economy is improving but far from the heights of architectural bombast just a few years ago.

And this was no spec rendering. Foundation work began on Carnegie 57 in April and steel girders should be rising above the sidewalk by the end of the month. Barnett had been trying to make the site—near 7th Avenue, across from Carnegie Hall—larger but he wound up with an offset-L where the 57th Street frontage is 159 feet compared to 78 feet on 58th Street.

André Terzibachian, a de Portzamparc principal, said the greatest challenge for the designers was determining how to take this unusual lot, along with the strict setbacks mandated by the zoning code, and craft it into an elegant, cohesive tower. The expense of such a tall building, to say nothing of the exacting expectations of Barnett, meant no wasted space or room for architectural flourish. Still, De Portzamparc managed to work some in, curving the setbacks to create a cascading effect, which is further heightened by alternating columns of light and dark glass. “It expresses New York’s vertical energy,” Terzibachian said.

The east and west facades are more like cuts than cascades—in part because the vertical reflections had to be masked in the crook of the L. The designers created what they call a semi-abstracted “Klimt” pattern, which employs a third type of glass to create a surface reminiscent of an Adele Bloch-Bauer dress. The most difficult part of the design was making it all invisible from the inside. “Our client’s concern is that it had to be as nice as possible, not too aggressive,” Terzibachian said, though this was achieved through a proprietary glass treatment.


Still, even the fanciest foreign architecture cannot please everyone, though there are some who it must. At the Riverside Center certification hearing, City Planning Commission Chair Amanda Burden expressed great concern that Barnett is hueing to Riverside South's previously established 12 percent affordability requirement, as opposed to the 20 percent the Bloomberg administration has essentially mandated for large-scale development projects. "We expect to come to an agreement on that," Burden said.

The local community board, which will vote on the project by the end of July, also maintains the project is too large and cloistered, with 3.2 acres of open space meant more for residents of the complex than their neighbors. Extell did a fair amount of outreach going in, repeatedly meeting with the community about the project and even reducing the height of the two western towers by at least a dozen stories each, though their western counterparts each creeped up a few floors and all the towers were bulked up to compensate.


a cafe and water feature at the center of Riverside Center. Some community members worry about how public these spaces will be.
Courtesy Extell
It is these sorts of negotiations, tradeoffs, and challenges that de Portzamparc finds thrilling. "New York has always been a source of inspiration," Terzibachian said. "His theories about the open block were very much informed by New York and his trips here when he was a student."

The firm has not exactly been idle in the city, with some 10 projects that nearly came to fruition, though none ever crossed the threshold into the public realm. Terzibachian said that de Portzamparc has also kept a tight rein on the firm, selectively choosing his work for maximum creative control and to avoid corporatism. And while this approach may not achieve the most buildings, it keeps the firm's roughly 80 employees busy, even during the downturn. "We have had no layoffs," Terzibachian said. Even the failed projects can lead to work, as one, a jagged condo tower on Park Avenue South, was the catalyst for the firm's introduction to Extell, as the developer of that project recommended the firm. Its first task was a series of feasibility studies for Carnegie 57 in 2006.

Barnett demurs at the suggestion that brand-name architecture is a new approach for his firm, which has worked in the past with the likes of Kostas Kondylis, Lucien Legrange, Cetra/Ruddy, and Cook + Fox. “We seek out the right architect and the right aesthetic for each project,” he said. Still, with more high-profile projects underway, such as SOM’s Gem Tower in the Diamond District and KPF’s World Commerce Centre on the Far West Side, Barnett said he will continue to work with good firms. Such as? “You’ll have to wait and see,” he said.

Matt Chaban

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From The NY Times: http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?...5793ffebee1760

Court Upholds Columbia Campus Expansion Plan


By CHARLES V. BAGLI
Published: June 23, 2010

Columbia University won a major court victory for its $6.3 billion plan to build a satellite campus in Harlem on Thursday, when New York’s highest court ruled that the state could seize private property for the project.


Nicholas Sprayregen owns four Tuck-it-Away Self Storage buildings in the area including this one at Broadway in between 131 St. and 132 St. The storage facility at left is on the land that is being taken over by Columbia University.
In a unanimous decision, the Court of Appeals overturned a lower court ruling that barred the state from using its power of eminent domain to take private property in the 17-acre expansion zone west of Broadway without the property owner’s consent. The ruling held that the courts must give deference to the state’s determination that the area was “blighted” and that condemnation on behalf of a university served a public purpose, two requirements under the law.

Lee Bollinger, the president of Columbia University, said he was grateful for the state’s hard work in the case. “This is an extremely important moment in the history of Columbia,” he said. “It’s only fair to say that the opportunity to build a new campus comes along very rarely.”

The university hopes to build a series of buildings for science, business and the arts over the course of several decades on the site near the Hudson River, where the streets are lined with warehouses, factories and auto repair shops. Columbia has already acquired the bulk of the land it needs, but the owners of four warehouses and two gas stations refused to sell and sued to stop the taking of their property. There are also seven tenements in the area, which are not subject to condemnation, but Columbia hopes to move the tenants to comparable apartments elsewhere.

Norman Siegel, who represented the losing property owners, said he was still reviewing the decision. “We’re extremely disappointed,” he said. Mr. Siegel had hoped that the lower court decision would serve as a roadmap for others hoping to oppose the state’s use of eminent-domain powers.

Nicholas Sprayregen, the owner of the four warehouses who had refused to sell to Columbia, could not be reached for comment.

The ruling cited a decision in a similar eminent-domain case last year involving the Atlantic Yards development in Brooklyn, where the state was condemning property on behalf of a developer who planned to build a basketball arena for the Nets and up to 6,000 apartments. “We ruled for Atlantic Yards, and if we could rule in favor of a basketball arena, surely we could rule for a nonprofit university,” the court said Thursday in its decision, which was written by Judge Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick.

In a statement, the Empire State Development Corporation, the agency that would take the land on behalf of Columbia, said the ruling “confirms that the project complies with New York State law in all respects and that the acquisition of the holdout properties is essential to realizing the vision for the Manhattanville campus as it was approved by the state.”

“The expansion of one of New York’s oldest educational institutions will enhance the vitality of both the university and its neighboring west Harlem community, while meeting the long-term needs of its residents,” the agency said.

In a concurring opinion, Judge Robert S. Smith agreed that the state had the power to decide what constituted blight, but he wrote that the court should not have brought up the issue of what constitutes a “civic purpose,” because it opens the door to any purported “school,” even a tennis school, to have land assembled for it through eminent

Manhattanville as it looks today:

http://mas.org/tag/harlem/page/2/