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Old Posted Jan 8, 2012, 11:12 PM
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http://archpaper.com/news/articles.asp?id=5833

Lucky Seven: New York's 7 line extension steams ahead.


Detail of the lower mezzanine's arc.


Jan 7, 2012

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In the waning days of 2011, Shawn Kildare gave a tour 130 feet below Eleventh Avenue. Kildare, a senior vice president at the MTA, delivered some good news to the small group gawking at the huge caverns carved for the Number 7 Subway Extension. The project, he said, is ten months ahead of schedule and under budget. With the Second Avenue subway progressing in fits and starts, hobbled by community complaints, the new Number 7, which boasts few residential neighbors, looks poised to take the prize as New York’s newest subway exension.

The new station, engineered by Parsons Brinkerhoff, will take one of the system’s busiest train lines from its westernmost terminus at Times Square, to Eleventh Avenue and 34th Street—and perhaps, one day, to New Jersey. The extension may prove a viable alternative to the regional tunnel that New Jersey governor Chris Christie squashed in 2010. As currently planned, the new station will serve the mass-transit-challenged Javits Center and Related Hudson Yards project, to say nothing of Brookfield Properties’ Manhattan West proposal. It will accommodate 25,000 commuters per hour, and an additional six trains added to the line will find room to park and/or maneuver on extra tracks positioned just north and south of the new subway platform.

Along Eleventh Avenue the tunnel dodged Amtrak and Lincoln Tunnel tubes before curving east to meet the existing Number 7 tracks. This meant digging beside the Port Authority Bus Terminal while passengers disembarked 20 feet away. A few blocks west, the sandhogs borrowed beneath the Times Square/Eighth Avenue pedestrian passageway while commuters crisscrossed overhead.






Workers prepare a new communication center beneath Eleventh Ave. as ventilation rises at right.



Subgrade work continues for parkland entrance to subway.



Two tunnels run east to meet the park entranc



Cross section from left to right (west to east) shows tracks and lower mezz, escalators, upper mezz, and park entrance.



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While good news is good news, I find it suspicious that they are 10 months ahead of schedule. To me that means that a lot of extra time was padded into the schedule to begin with. Where does one gain ten whole months from?
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I drove by here quickly on Saturday, 7 Jan 2012 2012 and wondered what that structure was.


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It's fascinating to me that the driving reason for the 7 extension west was the Javits. Now the governor wants to demolish the Javits.
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^^No the driving reason was to spur development of the west side.
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[QUOTE=RobertWalpole;5543629]I drove by here quickly on Saturday, 7 June 2012 and wondered what that structure was.

So you have a time machine, how is the project looking have they started another supertall over there?...
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It's fascinating to me that the driving reason for the 7 extension west was the Javits. Now the governor wants to demolish the Javits.
The driving reason wasn't for the Javits - the Javits was built back in the 80's. The driving reason was to spur development of the entire Hudson Yards redevelopment area.


It's interesting to me how deep this station will be below the street level, especially considering it's one of the IRT lines. But it had to be built that way to avoid other things. Shown in the image below is the Extell tower site (former WPC) and the Girasole site (3 Hudson) is just behind. Both will sit above the station.




The main subway entrance for this one will be on the northern side.

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Since we are waiting for this thing to finish, another update...


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If NY were Europe, would it really take that long to build such a short segment of subway? I doubt it. It seems London always builds their subways super fast in comparison.
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If NY were Europe, would it really take that long to build such a short segment of subway? I doubt it. It seems London always builds their subways super fast in comparison.
New York has a lot of water pipes and gas pipes underneath the soil. Any construction you do would bring them to the surface.
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Wow, those columns aren't messing around.

No box or I-beams here, just solid plates laminated together.
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I really love the Girasole because of its facade. If anything changes about that facade this tower will SUCK. The facade it literally WHITE, and I love it. It's different than anything we've seen (except 1 Columbus Circle RIP). If built like the renders show it will be one of the "main attractions" of the Hudson Yards, and will be totally easy to differentiate from the rest.
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New York has a lot of water pipes and gas pipes underneath the soil. Any construction you do would bring them to the surface.
I should also mention that this subway line is deeper than other underground constructions (subways), which makes the work more dangerous. Not to mention the hard rock of the island of Manhattan.
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They had to go deeper to avoid a lot of things, if you look at the diagram, you can see just how deep under the towers the station will be. They just better keep those escalators working, or there will be a lot of pissed off people.

Meanwhile, the closer we get to this station being complete, the closer we get to this tower starting. However, given the current state of things, this tower would probaby be on hold anyway.

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This development site is currently being net-leased by the Hudson Yards Development Corporation as a construction staging area for the MTA’s extension of the #7 subway line, which is now expected to be completed sometime in late 2013 or early 2014. The developer entered into a seven-year lease with them for this use back in 2007. They have been working very closely with the MTA and when the extension is completed the site will be well-positioned to begin development of 3 Hudson Blvd., which will have direct access to the subway. Current projections are for construction to begin soon after the subway extension is complete, most likely in 2014, with completion expected in 2016."
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Small delay here...tragic accident.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/05/ny...-collapse.html

Work Is Halted at Subway Site After Fatal Crane Collapse





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A day after a fatal crane collapse, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority shut down all work at the construction site for the No. 7 subway extension to Manhattan’s Far West Side, leaving a 60-foot-deep pit that looked like an underground ghost city for various investigators to mine for evidence of the accident’s cause.

On Wednesday, officials at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, prompted by the accident, ordered the inspection of cranes operated by Yonkers and other contractors at the World Trade Center site, a person with knowledge of the actions said.

As investigators on Wednesday roamed the normally bustling construction site for the No. 7 extension, the cranes and other machines there were silent. Work by three other contractors operating jointly beside Yonkers on the site — Skanska, Schiavone Construction Company and J. F. Shea Construction — was also halted.


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The crane boom looks like it either melted, or was made out of some material with mediocre lifting capacity.
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They are back at work already...

http://manhattan.ny1.com/content/top...crane-collapse

Subway Extension Work Resumes At Site Of Deadly Crane Collapse


4/9/12

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Work resumed at the site of last week's deadly Midtown crane accident on Monday.

Crews were back on the job to extend the number 7 subway line on Manhattan's West Side.

Construction worker Michael Simmermeyer was killed when a cable snapped, causing part of the crane to come crashing down last Tuesday.

The cause is still being investigated, but officials are looking into maintenance and operation issues with the crane.

Defects were in the hoisting system.


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Gira Sole could top 1400, be NYC's next tallest

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The 84-story tower at 440 Park Avenue will be NYC’s loftiest

The New York City Department of Buildings has issued a permit for the construction of a new, 84-story residential building, slated to be the city’s tallest, at the 440 Park Avenue site where CIM Group and Macklowe Properties plan to build condominiums, the DOB confirmed today. The permit, for a 1,300-foot-tall residential tower at the site of the former Drake Hotel, was issued earlier this month.

The application for the site, at 56th Street, was filed last May, the DOB said. If construction proceeds as planned, the tower, which will offer retail as well as the ultra-luxury apartments and will be designed by SLCE Architects, will reach 1,398 feet in 2016. That heights tops One57, which will become the city’s tallest residential tower when it is completed later this year.

CIM and Harry Macklowe — who has no equity in the project but is involved — plan to erect a mixed-use complex designed by Rafael Vinoly. With 128 residential units and 12-foot high ceilings, the project is expected to cost $1 billion, according to previous reports. The permit means that the ambitious project — which is slated to include golf training facilities and private dining and screening rooms — can move forward.

But the 440 Park Avenue site may not be the city’s tallest for long. The GiraSole tower proposed for 11th Avenue could rise to a similar height when it is completed. The project has been stalled for years, after initial reports said the tower, which architects hope to design as essentially a huge solar panel, would be completed by 2011.

CIM, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm which acquired the Drake Hotel site for $305 million in 2010, has said it is confident that it will get the $700 million construction loan it needs to complete the project, according to previous reports. Calls to CIM’s representatives were not returned.

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New York City has entered the age of a residential arms race, where developers continue to try top each other, literally, in the height of their developments, according to the New York Times. By 2016 the city could have six of the country’s 10 tallest towers and three of its highest residential buildings.

Last year, 8 Spruce Street became the country’s tallest rental tower. (The Times noted that architect Frank Gehry urged developer Forest City Ratner to build a few feet short of Trump World Tower so as not to draw The Donald’s ire.)

Meanwhile, Extell Development’s One57 just broke a Manhattan sales record on its way to 1,004 feet in height, which will make it the tallest residential tower in Manhattan. But it won’t hold that title for long. The residential structure CIM Group and Harry Macklowe plan for 432 Park Avenue is slated to reach 1,398 feet in 2016, and even later, the GiraSole tower proposed for 11th Avenue could rise to a similar height.

In the short-term, a Related Companies rental tower scheduled to open June 15 is staking claim to the “tallest residential building on the Upper East Side” title, as it rises 53 stories on 1214 Fifth Avenue, which is actually in Harlem. At 513 feet, it will be the 183rd tallest building in the city.

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So uh yea this is awesome
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I should also mention that this subway line is deeper than other underground constructions (subways), which makes the work more dangerous. Not to mention the hard rock of the island of Manhattan.
London's central subway stations seemed further down than New York's when I was there.
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