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August 26, 2015

Handel Architects’ Luxurious ‘Amalfi’ Condo Tower Will Now Be Swanky Senior Living Pads

By Ondel Hylton

Here's a closer look at Handel Architects' design of a would-have-been condominium tower at 305 East 93rd Street, named The Amalfi.
Find out more here

August 26, 2015

Construction Update: Perch Harlem, Manhattan’s First Passive House Rental Building, Rises

By Ondel Hylton

A tipster has alerted us that Manhattan's first market-rate rental building built to passive house standards has reached street level.
Find out more about Perch Harlem

August 25, 2015

Construction Ramps Up on Far West Side Mega-Rental at the Foot of Bjarke’s Ski Slope

By Ondel Hylton

Site excavation continues on TF Cornerstone's (TFC) mammoth 42-story rental development at 606 West 57th Street between Eleventh Avenue and the West Side Highway.
More details ahead

August 24, 2015

New Renderings Revealed for Garden-Topped High Line Jardim Condos

By Michelle Cohen

A new full set of renderings has surfaced from New York YIMBY revealing designs for the West Chelsea condominium project at 527 West 27th Street known as Jardim.
See the latest renderings

August 20, 2015

City Defends Supertalls, Won’t Limit Size of Midtown Towers

By Michelle Cohen

The Department of City Planning announced that although it shares residents' concerns about the effects of the new crop of supertall towers rising near Central Park, it does not intend to lower the size limits on buildings in the dense Midtown district.
Read more on the city's response

August 19, 2015

REVEALED: Bland Apartment Tower Replaces Karl Fischer’s Indigo Hotel Design in Downtown Brooklyn

By Ondel Hylton

Yesterday, we reported a staggering 22,000 residential units are on their way to the northern end of Brooklyn by 2019, 6,412 (29 percent) of which are slated for the half-square mile neighborhood of Downtown Brooklyn.
Find out more here

August 19, 2015

Park Slope Pavilion Condo Plans Met With Resistance From Neighbors, Landmarks Commission

By Michelle Cohen

Hidrock Realty, developer of a five-story condo building next to the historic Pavilion Theater on Prospect Park West, was told by the Landmarks Preservation Commision to make changes to the proposed design after neighbors expressed concerns, DNAinfo reports.
Find out what the neighbors are afraid of

August 18, 2015

The Final Design of Extell’s Nordstrom Tower Still Undecided

By Diane Pham

Back in May it was reported that the official rendering for Extell's Nordstrom Tower—a.k.a. Central Park Tower, a.k.a.
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August 18, 2015

New 15-Story Passive House Condo May Be Coming to 128 West 23rd Street

By Ondel Hylton

A new residential building may be coming to West 23rd Street next to Citizen condos.
More details ahead

August 17, 2015

REVEALED: New Renderings of PMG’s Queens Plaza Park, the Future Tallest Tower Outside Manhattan

By Ondel Hylton

Here's a closer look at Property Markets Group and the Hakim Organization's upcoming Long Island City skyscraper dubbed Queens Plaza Park.
more info on the project here

August 16, 2015

Construction Begins on Bushwick’s AnX Artist Lofts by Gene Kaufman

By Heather Cooper Vivares

Construction has begun on a cross-braced, utilitarian artists' space in the heart of Bushwick at 13 Grattan Street.
More details here

August 15, 2015

Washington Heights’ First Two Hotels Set to Open This Summer

By Emrys Fitzgerald

Overnight visitors to Washington Heights–you know, that hotel-free neighborhood "upstate somewhere"—will soon have two brand new lodging options. Both hotels feature geographic monikers, will yield more than 100 rooms combined, and will reportedly open this summer.
more on the two new developments here

August 14, 2015

Construction Kicks Off at Morris Adjmi’s 540 West 26th Street, New Renderings Revealed

By Ondel Hylton

Construction has kicked off on a sleek, nine-story commercial and gallery building in the heart of West Chelsea's gallery district. It's being developed by Savanna Fund, the Manhattes Group, and the Silvermintz family.
More on the project right this way

August 13, 2015

Could This Honeycomb Tower Be Moshe Safdie’s Bancroft Building Replacement?

By Ondel Hylton

Images of a mysterious high-rise project have been posted on the website of Architecture Work Office, depicting a balcony-laden 50-story residential tower that balloons in area as it rises.
is this new tower in the works?

August 12, 2015

A Toast to Tribeca: More Images Revealed of KPF’s 111 Murray Street

By Ondel Hylton

Grounded in the foothills of the downtown skyline, where the quaint streets of Tribeca scale upwards into the shimmering temples of capitalism, lies the 35,000-square-foot construction site of an upcoming 62-story condominium known as 111 Murray (previously called 101 Murray).
Take a look right here

August 11, 2015

The Bronx Is Getting a New Mixed-Use High-Rise Near Yankee Stadium

By Ondel Hylton

Brooklyn and Queens have been flush with new condos and rental developments lately, now it's time for the Bronx to get in on the action. Local developer M. Melnick & Co.
Find out more right here

August 11, 2015

First Look at 23-Story Condominium Replacing Greenwich Village’s Bowlmor Lanes

By Ondel Hylton

Here's our first peek at the 23-story condominium tower replacing the former home of Greenwich Village's iconic Bowlmor Lanes at 110 University Place. Documents filed with the Department of Buildings depict a modest 280-foot-high tower rising from a block-long, one-story retail podium.
More details right this way

August 11, 2015

Developer Avoids Rent-Stabilized Tenants by Building Luxury Condos on Top of Them

By Diane Pham

Here's a clever new move for the developer playbook: If you want to keep rent-stabilized tenants from interfering with your plans for ultra-posh condos, just build your pricey pads on top of them.
More on their plan here

August 10, 2015

Permits Filed for New Faux-Loft Building at the Intersection of Boerum Hill and Gowanus

By Ondel Hylton

Avery Hall Investments filed permits last week for an eight-story, 20-unit residential building at the corner of Third Avenue and St. Marks Place. The site is situated in the area where bucolic Boerum Hill meets the utilitarian factory lofts of Gowanus.
More details on the project

August 10, 2015

Another Pivoting Skyscraper Coming to Crowded Midtown East Block

By Ondel Hylton

It's hard for a new building to stand out in the Big Apple these days, with striking towers designed by the world's foremost architects, soaring pinnacles jutting 1,500 feet into the clouds, and massive 1,000-unit apartment buildings possessing all the amenities of a Caribbean resort.
Find out more here

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August 9, 2015

Construction Update: Williamsburg’s 95 South Fifth Tops Out

By Heather Cooper Vivares

After breaking ground earlier this year, Horrigan Development and Pilot Real Estate Group’s 95 South Fifth Street has already topped out.
More here

August 7, 2015

Another 1,000-Foot-Plus Tower Moves Forward Near South Street Seaport

By Diane Pham

There's no slowing down the city's supertall boom. Crain's reports yet another 1,000-foot plus tall tower could soon be joining the New York City skyline, rising at the combined sites of 80 South Street and 163 Front Street.
FInd out more here

August 6, 2015

First Look at 22-Story Expansion of Downtown Brooklyn’s Hampton Inn Hotel

By Ondel Hylton

We all know Brooklyn's residential market is scorching hot, but its hotel market is booming as well. Two hotels recently opened at the borough's Manhattan Bridge entryway, the 174-room Dazzler Brooklyn Hotel and the 116-room Hampton Inn.
More details ahead

August 5, 2015

Could This Deconstructivist Office Tower Be Coming to the Garment District?

By Ondel Hylton

The visualization wizzes at Hayes Davidson posted this image of a hyper-modern tower addition atop an imposing Verizon-owned building at 230 West 36th Street.
More details ahead

August 5, 2015

First 1,000+ Foot Tower Outside Manhattan May Rise in Downtown Brooklyn

By Michelle Cohen

As the result of the $90 million acquisition of Brooklyn's landmarked Dime Savings Bank building by developers Michael Stern (111 West 57th) and Joe Chetrit, a new residential skyscraper in Brooklyn could nearly reach the height of the Empire State Building.
find out more about the planned Brooklyn skyscraper

August 5, 2015

Health- and Fitness-Themed EVEN Hotel Tops Out in Midtown East

By Ondel Hylton

The future Midtown East home of the fitness- and wellness-themed EVEN Hotel line has reached its 414-foot apex.
More details ahead

August 3, 2015

First Look at Toll Brothers’ Chelsea Condo Designed by Morris Adjmi

By Ondel Hylton

Here's our first glimpse at Toll Brothers' under-construction condominium rising at 55 West 17th Street in Chelsea. Morris Adjmi is the building's architect, which is not surprising given his track record crafting sensitive designs for the city's historical areas.
More details here

August 3, 2015

Surge in City Construction Permits Hits Levels Not Seen Since 1963

By Michelle Cohen

If the city seems even more like one big construction site than usual, it's not your imagination. Building permits have risen to an historic peak, up by 156 percent over the last year, the Daily News reports, and an astounding 749 percent over the 2010 post-slump low.
Find out what's behind the boom

July 31, 2015

REVEALED: What the Development Replacing the Essex Street Market Could Look Like

By Ondel Hylton

Here's our first look at what the site of the storied Essex Street Market could hold. Known simply as "Site 9" in the Essex Crossing mega-development, the 12-story mixed-use development would contain market-rate condominiums and two levels of commercial space at its base.
More details ahead

July 30, 2015

First Look Inside 64 East 1st Street’s Lofty Condominiums in the ‘Bowery District’

By Ondel Hylton

Here's our first look at the lofty interiors of an upcoming GF55 Partners-designed condominium at 64 East 1st Street. The seven-story property is being developed by MGM Property Group, and the site was previously occupied by the much-maligned restaurant/hookah bar La Vie.
More details ahead

July 29, 2015

Rare UES Townhouse Addition Coming to Fifth Avenue’s Museum Mile

By Ondel Hylton

New buildings along Fifth Avenue on the Upper East Side are hard to come by, but a rare development prospect may be in the works for a small site on a dormant stretch of the avenue in Carnegie Hill.
More on the potential development ahead

July 28, 2015

Renderings Revealed for Bjarke Ingels’ Curved Harlem Apartment Building

By Dana Schulz

Now that the hoopla surrounding his design for Two World Trade Center has simmered down, we've got a fresh set of renderings from Danish starchitect Bjarke Ingels.
More details and renderings here

July 24, 2015

Construction Update: Tribeca’s ‘Jenga Tower’ 56 Leonard Tops Out

By Heather Cooper Vivares

Last January, 6sqft reported on the the progress of Alexico Group /Hines' project 56 Leonard: The concrete structure was around 700 feet tall with little more than 100 feet to rise.
More details this way

July 24, 2015

Tribeca’s 45 Park Place Site Cleared to Make Way for Slender 660-Foot Skyscraper

By Ondel Hylton

The site of a SOMA Architects-designed Tribeca skyscraper has finally been cleared, signaling that groundwork and construction of the slender 38-story tower may soon be before us.
Get the scoop here

July 23, 2015

Construction Begins on John Catsimatidis’ Curvy Rental Tower at 86 Fleet Place in Fort Greene

By Ondel Hylton

Construction has begun on the final building of the four-tower development on the western edge of Fort Greene. The 32-story tower at 86 Fleet Place will house 440 rental units and will be the culmination of a 15-year redevelopment of a low-slung, Robert Moses-era retail strip along Myrtle Avenue.
More details on the development

July 22, 2015

How You Can Live in a Billionaire’s Row Condo for Free AND Make Six Figures

By Diane Pham

Get a job as one of their building managers. As DNA Info reports, if you're just a regular Joe or Jane looking to take up residence in one of the city's priciest towers, you don't need to be a billionaire—or even a millionaire for that matter.
Find out more here

July 22, 2015

POLL: Are Private Pools the Next Must-Have Amenity?

By Dana Schulz

This morning we revealed renderings of Six Sigma’s upcoming condo at 435 West 19th Street, which offers private pools as one of its amenities (along with a sky garage).

July 22, 2015

New Renderings of 435 West 19th Street, Condo with Private Pools and a Sky Garage

By Ondel Hylton

Work has begun on on Six Sigma's upcoming condo at 435 West 19th Street, and the head-to-toe renovation/addition of the 1924 building seems intent on housing all the most outrageous frills of recent West Chelsea builds under a single roof.
Find out more about this project

July 17, 2015

Renderings Revealed of Helpern Architects’ Times Square Hotel for ‘Fashion-Alert Urban Millennials’

By Ondel Hylton

Here's our first look at a four-star, 290-room hotel set to rise just south of Times Square at 252 West 40th Street. Developed by OTO Development, the 20-story, 147,000-square-foot hotel will be the South Carolina-based company's third venture in the city.
More details this way

July 17, 2015

First Look at the Interiors of Nomad’s 212 Fifth Avenue

By Ondel Hylton

Here's our first look at what the residences of a highly anticipated condo conversion at 212 Fifth Avenue could look like. In March we revealed a set of whimsical renderings for a conceptual design whipped up by the visualization artists ASJNY.
More details ahead

July 16, 2015

SCDA’s Switchback Skyscraper Launches Teaser Site and Clears Its Midtown East Lot

By Ondel Hylton

Last November, 6sqft brought you news that a 29-unit boutique condominium would rise at the edge of Billionaires' Row, in that somewhat ambiguous zone occupied by Bloomingdale's and Bloomberg LLP.
More details and renderings ahead

July 15, 2015

POLL: Are You For or Against Extell’s 800-Foot Tower at 250 South Street?

By Dana Schulz

Extell’s 800-foot tower at 250 South Street has been controversial since day one.

July 15, 2015

From Clipper Ships to Condos: Construction Begins on 161 Maiden Lane at the Seaport

By Ondel Hylton

Site excavation has begun on a sleek condominium tower set to erupt into the forefront of one of Manhattan's most iconic and historical vistas.
Click here for the past, present, and future of 161 Maiden Lane

July 13, 2015

New Video Reveals How SHoP’s 626 First Avenue Will Dance into Midtown’s East River Skyline

By Ondel Hylton

SHoP Architects' copper-clad fraternal pair of towers is finally rising along the East River, and a handful of newly uncovered images and a fly-through video reassure us that this dancing couple will be the boldest addition to the East River skyline in decades.
Watch the video and find out everything 626 First Avenue will offer

July 13, 2015

West Chelsea’s Tallest Tower Rises and Finally Reveals Itself

By Ondel Hylton

Residential construction along the High Line continues at full steam as a rash of activity along the park's northern extents rises higher and larger than earlier developments farther south.
Take a look at this new tower and learn more about it

July 10, 2015

Construction Update: Extell’s Controversial 800-Foot Tower Ready to Rise at 250 South Street

By Diane Pham

After being slapped with a partial stop-work order about three weeks ago for causing a local street to sink, Extell's Lower East Side mega-development at 250 South Street appears to be back on track.
FInd out more here

July 9, 2015

Construction Update: NYC’s First Micro Apartment Complex Is Now Fully Stacked

By Diane Pham

Moving day inches closer for those looking to claim a module in the city's first micro apartment complex. As of this week, My Micro NY is fully stacked, rising 120 feet from its site at 335 East 27th Street at the border of Gramercy in Kips Bay.
More images of the construction

July 9, 2015

EVENT: Is Historic Preservation Elitist?

By Diane Pham

Many folks argue that historic preservation is elitist, time-consuming, expensive and a drain on resources, further claiming that it’s a whole lot easier, cheaper and more practical to replace an old building with something new—especially when that means more housing.

July 8, 2015

Construction Update: Robert A.M. Stern’s 220 Central Park South Begins Race into the Sky

By Ondel Hylton

Billionaire's Row's race into the sky continues. Two of its biggest projected selling towers are beginning to rise out of their gargantuan foundations and are rushing to claim their piece of coveted Central Park-fronting airspace.
See new images of the tower here

June 24, 2015

POLL: How Do You Like the Nordstrom Tower’s New Name, Central Park Tower?

By Dana Schulz

We knew the name Nordstrom Tower wasn’t going to stick; the unofficial moniker came only from the fact that the building will have a Nordstrom department store at its base.

June 24, 2015

Renderings Revealed for Pacific Park Mega-Development’s Eight-Acre Green Space

By Dana Schulz

Formerly known as Atlantic Yards, Pacific Park Brooklyn will be a 22-acre site anchored by the Barclays Center in Prospect Heights and containing eight million square feet of mixed-use development that includes 16 condo towers and 2,250 units of affordable housing, as well as an eight-acre park.
More details ahead

June 17, 2015

POLL: Is Eliot Spitzer’s Williamsburg Development ‘Offensive?’

By Dana Schulz

Yesterday, former New York governor Eliot Spitzer revealed the first official rendering for Spitzer Enterprises’ mega development on the South Williamsburg waterfront.

June 16, 2015

Renderings Revealed for Eliot Spitzer’s ODA-Designed Williamsburg Mega-Development

By Dana Schulz

Leaving his political career in the past, former New York governor Eliot Spitzer is taking on the development world. After his father's death in November, the controversial politician took over the family's real estate business, Spitzer Enterprises.
More details here

June 16, 2015

New Rendering of Renzo Piano’s Soho Condos Shows a Curvy Glass Construction

By Diane Pham

Last month it was revealed that Renzo Piano would be following up his new Whitney Museum with a 290-foot residential tower at 555 Broome Steet (previously pinned as 100 Varick Street) in Hudson Square right on the border of Soho.
more details here

June 16, 2015

Extell’s Nordstrom Tower Will Be the Country’s Tallest by Roof Height

By Diane Pham

The Nordstrom Tower may not become the overall tallest building to ever rise NYC, besting One World Trade Center as previously reported and then rebuffed, but new filings unearthed by NY Yimby show that the supertall will still carry a very worthy, head-craning title.
get the scoop here

June 16, 2015

Flatiron Building-Looking Condo Tower to Rise at Brooklyn Heights Library Site

By Dana Schulz

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, the Flatiron Building should be highly honored by this fresh batch of renderings from Marvel Architects for the site at 280 Cadman Plaza West in Brooklyn Heights.
More on the development and additional renderings

June 15, 2015

New Rendering Reveals What Rafael Viñoly’s 125 Greenwich FiDi Tower Will Look Like

By Diane Pham

It's been a while since we've heard anything on Rafael Viñoly's tower slated to rise in the Financial District, but it looks like the starchitect's next supertall is inching closer to a full reveal.
Find out more here

June 9, 2015

Karim Rashid Asks Facebook Followers to Choose the Facade of His Next Building

By Diane Pham

With all the controversy currently swirling around Karim Rashid's colorful design of a residential building in a historic Harlem neighborhood, it looks like the designer is looking to avoid any additional headache with the public as he moves forward with a brand new project in Soho.
Find out more here

June 9, 2015

Luxury Parisian Hotel May Be Coming to Chetrit’s Sony Building Conversion

By Dana Schulz

It's definitely been a big number game at Chetrit's Sony Building conversion–from the 96 luxury condos they'll add to floors 14 to 33 of the 37-story tower, to the planned $1.
Get the scoop

June 3, 2015

Extell May Build Brooklyn’s Tallest Tower at City Point

By Dana Schulz

Extell, the development company best known for gobbling up billionaires' row sites and building supertall towers like One57, is venturing into Brooklyn, a place they've long avoided.
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June 1, 2015

REVEALED: Rafael Viñoly’s Slender 52-Story Condo Tower Design for Nomad

By Diane Pham

Is there any architect more in demand than Rafael Viñoly these days? NY YIMBY has uncovered the first renderings of the starchitect's latest residential project, a tower slated to pierce the sky from a Nomad site at 281 Fifth Avenue.
Find out more here

May 27, 2015

REVEALED: 1 Park Lane Will Be the Next Supertall Central Park South Tower

By Dana Schulz

Just a week after Manhattan's Community Board 5 called for a moratorium on shadow-casting Central Park skyscrapers taller than 600 feet, renderings have been revealed for the next supertall tower coming to the periphery of the park.
More details ahead

May 26, 2015

Starchitect Rafael Vinoly to Design a 10-Story Meatpacking District Building

By Diane Pham

Look out—not up—because there’s a new low-rise Rafael Vinoly-designed building coming our way.

May 20, 2015

POLL: Do You Agree with the Central Park Skyscraper Moratorium?

By Dana Schulz

May 19, 2015

Community Board Wants Moratorium Placed on Central Park Skyscrapers Taller than 600 Feet

By Diane Pham

Those looking to build a behemoth along Central Park may have to look elsewhere.
FInd out more here

May 18, 2015

Developer Scott Resnick Takes Us Inside Norman Foster’s 551W21

By Carter B. Horsley

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Inside Foster's new building in progress this way

May 18, 2015

VIDEO: Preview the Interiors of Jean Nouvel’s MoMA Tower Ahead of This Week’s Sales Launch

By Michelle Cohen

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Check out the interiors and the video this way

May 15, 2015

New Rendering Shows Isay Weinfeld’s Jardim High Line Condos

By Michelle Cohen

As the construction boom along the High Line continues, new renderings have surfaced (via Curbed) for the condo development designed by highly acclaimed Brazilian architect Isay Weinfeld.
Find out more about the project here

May 14, 2015

Extell Shoots for a $4.4B Sellout with the Nordstrom Tower, the Most Expensive Ever

By Diane Pham

Extell has plenty to brag about, from claiming fame to the city's top two most expensive sales to being credited with starting the whole superluxury supertall tower boom.
more details here

May 14, 2015

Official Rendering Revealed for Nordstrom Tower: No Surprises but Potential for More Height

By Michelle Cohen

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Find out the latest on the tower's height

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