New York City Development News

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FDR Four Freedoms Memorial Park

A lot of photos about the park:

http://www.fdrfourfreedomspark.org/

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List of towers U/C in New York:

Supertalls:

-1WTC 1783ft/541m
-2WTC 1350ft/411m
-3WTC 1255ft/383m
-One57 1005ft/306m


Skyscrapers:

-4WTC 977ft/298m


Highrises:

-135 West 45th Street 600ft/183m
-International Gem Tower 590ft/180m
-Mt. Sinai Center 518fr/158m
-29 Flatbush Avenue 457ft/139m
-Clinton Park 348ft/106m

not complete highrises list now

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There's a regularly updated list of NYC talls on the first page of this thread.

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CUNY Science Center in Harlem moving along...



And a reminder of the design:

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Barclays update:

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Barclays Arena by curbed, on Flickr

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Barclays Arena by curbed, on Flickr

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Barclays Arena by curbed, on Flickr

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Barclays Arena by curbed, on Flickr

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Barclays Arena by curbed, on Flickr

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Barclays Arena by curbed, on Flickr

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Curbed

FXFOWLE Hudson Yards Tower Put on Burner for 7 Train Extension

Friday, August 26, 2011, by Kelsey Keith

We like to check in with our skyscraper thread friends every so often and this week, rendered rumors have been flying in regards to The GiraSole, the FWFOWLE-designed tower slated for the Hudson Yards and first projected for completion in 2011. Not so fast! The firm's website puts the date at 2013 and debuts the shiny tower's new, stately, and as-yet nonexistent moniker: 3 Hudson Boulevard. A spokesperson for developer Moinian Group clears a few things up for us about that timing:

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The Girasole 3 Hudson Boulevard

Moinan is preparing marketing for this 1,060 ft. tower ahead of a possible 2012 2013-2014 groundbreaking.

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girasole exterior by curbed, on Flickr

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girasole plan sections by curbed, on Flickr

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1243876697 by curbed, on Flickr

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girasole 2 by curbed, on Flickr

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girasole 1 by curbed, on Flickr

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1243876656 by curbed, on Flickr

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Columbia U. Manhattanville campus update:

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Curbed

Could This Be The New 1420-Foot 57th Street Tower?

Tuesday, August 23, 2011, by Kelsey Keith




The proposed NYC skyline looking south from Central Park, with (left to right) Vinoly/ CIM's 50 E. 57th, Nouvel/Hines' Torre Verre, and de Portzamparc/Extell's 157 W 57th.

A tipster points us to a Wired New York thread that's batting around some curious information on the proposed Rafael Vinoly tower at 50 East 57th Street. The CIM Group-developed tower, which replaces the former Drake Hotel, meets zoning requirements for more than 1,000 feet and now we've got an actual number to salivate over: 433 m (1,420').







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And from the brilliant STR:

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rough massing model.

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Forest City Ratner Files for First Atlantic Yards Residential Permit

There are 16 apartment buildings planned for Atlantic Yards, but developer Forest City Ratner is starting relatively small, hoping to break ground this year on just the first of those towers. That hope just got a little more solid, as Brownstoner notes, because Forest City has filed its first permit application for residential construction. The application calls for a 33-story, 368-unit building, and the company previously promised that it would be a 50-30-20 project—20 percent of the units reserved for low-income tenants, 30 percent for middle-income tenants, and the remaining 50 percent for market-rate tenants.
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Queens Plaza construction

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Queens Plaza New Construction by Harris Graber, on Flickr

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Bloomberg

New York Buildings Face Storm Damage as Property Managers Plan for Irene
By David M. Levitt - Aug 26, 2011

Hurricane Irene may cause serious damage to some New York City buildings as it threatens to bring surging floodwaters and strong winds that may spur flying debris, property managers said as they prepared for the storm.

Irene could be “a once-in-a-lifetime event if it goes according to the forecast,” said Jim Rosenbluth, managing director for crisis management at real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield Inc. Basements and lower levels of buildings close to the shore “would absolutely be at risk,” he said.

The storm, hurtling toward landfall in North Carolina tomorrow and the Northeast the following day, may pose the biggest threat to waterfront areas in lower Manhattan, said Frank Edwards, executive managing director for project management in the New York office of Colliers International. While the city’s tall buildings are designed to withstand high winds, the gusts may create a funneling effect that poses a danger to bystanders throughout the city, Rosenbluth said.

New York City today ordered the evacuation of low-lying areas, including Brooklyn’s Coney Island, lower Manhattan’s Battery Park City and parts of Staten Island. Landlords were urged to begin emergency preparations and the New York buildings commissioner ordered that work on all city construction sites be suspended at 2 p.m. tomorrow.

Stable Skyscrapers

Manhattan’s tallest buildings are constructed to hold up against the horizontal force of winds, and glass in the newest towers is much stronger than the typical household windows, said David Childs, the architect who designed Manhattan towers including 1 World Trade Center, Time Warner Center, Worldwide Plaza and several other Manhattan towers.

“Many tall buildings have a large base to stand on, and they’re anchored to the granite which forms the base of all of Manhattan,” he said in a telephone interview.

Skyscraper skin is thicker and tends to be installed in two or three layers, he said, and if it does break, it usually does so in pellets like an auto windshield. Though those pellets can be dangerous in hurricane-force winds, the latest building designs are typically tested in Florida, where people are experienced with strong storms, he said.

Winds from the storm may be especially dangerous in clusters of skyscrapers, Cushman’s Rosenbluth said.

Canyon Effect

“The narrow canyon effect in an area that’s basically vertically developed can create very unique wind patterns where the wind speeds can substantially exceed that which the storm has created -- essentially a channeling or funneling effect,” he said.

Cushman manages 1,127 commercial properties totaling 186.9 million square feet (17.4 million square meters) on the East Coast, according to Adam Leibowitz, an associate with Cushman’s corporate occupiers and investor services division.

Lower Manhattan is particularly prone to flooding if there is a storm surge that pushes through the Verrazano Narrows, said Colliers’s Edwards. That would cause flooding along the Brooklyn shores as well, he said.

At lower Manhattan’s World Trade Center site, where 1 World Trade Center is under construction and workers are racing to finish the Sept. 11 memorial plaza by the 10th anniversary of the attack, contractors were ordered to tie down loose debris, cover electrical equipment, store tools and secure netting. Crews also were preparing to use pumps and sandbags to control flooding, according to a statement by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the 16-acre (6.5-hectare) site.

Landlord Checklist

The New York Building Owners and Managers Association recommended in its checklist yesterday that landlords fasten or remove all loose material; secure roof-mounted equipment such as flashings, roof vents and cooling units; secure on-site cranes against high winds; and clean out all drains and catch basins. It also suggested they set up Twitter accounts and Facebook pages for emergency information.

New York’s emergency guidelines urge apartment residents to take shelter below the 10th floor of their buildings.

If the storm tracks closely to the west of the city, New York could suffer historic levels of damage at a Category 2 or higher, Rosenbluth said. That would bring winds of at least 96 miles (154 kilometers) per hour, according to the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale.

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TRD

Brookfield lays out plans for massive "Manhattan West" development
August 26, 2011 06:00PM



Brookfield CEO Ric Clark Brookfield Office Properties, owners of about 18 million square feet of office space in the New York area, could complete its massive development site between Ninth and Dyer avenues and 31st and 33rd streets, dubbed "Manhattan West," by 2017, CEO Ric Clark told the New York Times in a Q & A.

The plan calls for four buildings, two of which are 2 million square feet each and span the north and south sides of the project, with another 1 million-square-foot building occupying the southwest corner. The fourth, a smaller building whose square footage is still undetermined, will be used for retail or office space. Construction is slated to begin on the project in January, and the first of the two biggest buildings could be ready for occupancy by late 2015, Clark said.

Though the project is very close to Related's Hudson Yards project, Clark believes they will compliment rather than compete with each other. He also boasted of his project's closer proximity to Penn Station.

Finally, Clark said Brookfield continues to be on track for its best leasing year ever, though he backtracked a bit from the 11 million to 12 million square feet he said in June he expected to lease, and now believes it will end up closer to 10 million to 11 million.

read more in the new york times: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/28/re...ref=realestate

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5Pointz to be replaced by two 30 story affordable housing towers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/28/ny...owed-time.html

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5Pointz by rbreve, on Flickr

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F.I.T. Awaits Savior For New Building

Budget cuts this summer have left a sleek glass tower proposed for the Fashion Institute of Technology's Chelsea campus in limbo, and now the school is hoping the project will be saved by a private donor. According to the Architect's Newspaper, the state awarded the State University of New York school located between Seventh and Eighth avenues at 27th and 28th streets, half of the $148 million needed to complete the SHoP Architects-designed project in 2003. (SHoP is also the firm behind the Barclays Center in Atlantic Yards.) The rest, it said, would need to come from local funding within 10 years. In 2006, the city contributed $2 million to the project, prompting the state to match it, so the architects could finalize the design.

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August 29 construction updates:


45-40 Center Blvd in LIC:

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East Coast construction by tfcornerstone, on Flickr


The Durst/Fetner resi tower atop Mt Sinai Hosp at 102nd St. and 5th Ave:

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Durst/Fetner Mount Sinai by tectonic Photo, on Flickr

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Durst/Fetner Mount Sinai by tectonic Photo, on Flickr

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TRD

Redevelopment of Harlem's Victoria Theater moves forward
August 30, 2011 06:30PM


Early rendering of Victoria Theater plans

The redevelopment of the Victoria Theater on 125th Street in Harlem is finally moving forward after setbacks, the New York Times reported. The Empire State Development Corporation had been trying to redevelop the property as a mixed-use hotel and condominium complex since 2005, and chose Danforth Development Partners to lead the project in 2008. But the real estate crash that followed put the plans on hold. Now, Danforth says the $100 million project can move along with a new equity partner, Exact Capital, and will break ground in the second half of next year.

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