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Category Archives: MIDTOWN
15 Penn Plaza: The Great Giveaway
Henry J. Stern, President of New York Civic and Former New York City Parks Commissioner The Sunday Times carried dueling quotes on the City Council’s decision to upzone an entire block of mid-Manhattan so that a new office tower, over … Continue reading
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Buying, By the Numbers
Down the street from your place, another new condominium tower just sold out. Where on earth are all these people coming from? We found out. Continue reading
Dramatic 57th Street Tower Springs to Life (On the Internet)
Big things are happening at the corner of Second Avenue and 57th Street, but how big remains to be seen. We’re talking about 250 East 57th Street, the World-Wide Group’s plan to replace a school building with a new school, a Whole Foods, more retail and, oh yeah, a 59-story residential tower designed by SOM that tapers and widens as it pierces the East Side sky. Continue reading
New Schools, 59-Story Tower To Rise at 57th St. and Second Ave.
A developer’s vision for a stunning, hourglass-shaped skyscraper at the corner of 57th Street and Second Avenue is moving forward, albeit in an ill-defined form. Continue reading
Burdened! Novel Tower Expected to Feel Planning Commish’s 200-Foot Chomp
Burned by a post-approval architect swap at Bruce Ratner’s Atlantic Yards project—the Brooklyn developer dropped Frank Gehry and his iconic basketball arena earlier this year—the chairwoman of the City Planning Commission is going to new lengths to see that she’s not the victim of a future bait-and-switch. Continue reading




