NYC Architecture and Development

Updated Design Revealed For 350 Park Avenue Supertall In Midtown East, Manhattan​

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https://newyorkyimby.com/2024/04/up...enue-supertall-in-midtown-east-manhattan.html
 
I recently bought a book about the Twin Towers with a lot of great photos of the towers before their tragic demise. The book is "WTC" by Brian Rose, and it includes a ton of pictures from 1977 to 2001. I thought I'd share some of these photos here since the towers were marvelous buildings and it will always really suck that they're gone.
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I also recently got my hands on this Amtrak timetable from 1994/1995 with a nighttime shot of the twins on the cover.
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beck4537 said:
Loving all of these projects in Midtown. If only we could have nice things in Boston...
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Curious if you could qualify what constitutes a nice thing here...

There are some good projects going up in NY and elsewhere that force some jealousy out of me, but NYC can have this one...
 
50 West Street is quite striking in person.
What comes through somewhat in your images is how the individual units give the building a lot of movement. I don’t know if that was intentional.
 
bdurden said:
50 West Street is quite striking in person.
What comes through somewhat in your images is how the individual units give the building a lot of movement. I don’t know if that was intentional.
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I watched 50 West go up from my office nearby and on a sunny day it really glistens. It was one of the early curved-glass cornered buildings. The band of metal cladding between the glass adds a touch of class to it. I would be happy to have a pied-a-terre in that guy.
 
Agreed that 50 West has a lot of little touches that add up to an above-average tower. Most glass towers are trying to be sleek but that one really pulls it off.
 
Some photos from this week's trip to NYC, featuring the newer construction in that lesser touristed borough of Queens. Most of these photos are from where my hotel was, in LIC. One of the things I appreciate the most about NYC development is that there are relatively few development that have a large footprint - the small footprints impart a more vibrant mix of new construction buildings than one might otherwise expect.

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LIC is such an odd place. It has all the hallmarks of a real urban neighborhood. Yet it's so new that much of the character isn't there yet. Most of the people who actually live there are well off enough to spend their time elsewhere. Not to mention, many of these buildings are straight up empty, built with overseas money.
 
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LIC is such an odd place. It has all the hallmarks of a real urban neighborhood. Yet it's so new that much of the character isn't there yet. Most of the people who actually live there are well off enough to spend their time elsewhere. Not to mention, many of these buildings are straight up empty, built with overseas money.
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You're not wrong - it didn't feel like it had the things I'd expect of an area with that much residential. That character is in the older sections of the area, in between the new development (meaning Vernon Blvd.), but I had to go into Manhattan to find a pair of socks. Granted, the bit of LIC fronting the east river seemed fully lived in.

Also, I forgot to mention - what is with NYC's apparent aversion to bike racks?
 
LIC is starting to come into its own imo. I haven't seen anything written on this yet, but the area around Court Sq is really turning into another NYC Chinatown, except this one is for moneyed Millennials/Gen Z. There are a number of interesting spots for teas/dumplings/jianbing, that you wouldn't find in many other parts of the city. It's kind of like if you combined this last decade's transformations of the Seaport and Allston.
 
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