NEW YORK | Bank Of America Tower | 1,200' Pinnacle / 945' Roof | 53 FLOORS

[J.M.]

Move it to Completed?

[JSsocal]

^^^Not yet, there are still a bunch of boarded windows

[NYguy]

Nice shots.

Isn't this building done yet? It's been around forever.

It has been around for a long time, but it isn't comleted.

It was already topped out a year and a half ago.

Topped out and completed are not one and the same. This building has had numerous delays. Though they are now working to complete the building, it isn't scheduled for completion until 2010.

[NYguy]

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[meh_cd]

The building is pretty dynamic. Sure, it could have been better but I'm not going to complain.

[pablosan]

Awesome!

[Zapatan]

So the actual roof is 881'?

The crown should count for a 950 or so foot roof height, that's the visual bulk of the building, like the comcast center in philadelphia.

[NYguy]

^ The crown tops out at around 945'.


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[NYguy]

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aeabXop5GEk4

Bank of America Rebrands Offices in New York, London Towers

By Linda Shen
Sept. 3 (Bloomberg)

Bank of America Corp., the largest U.S. bank by assets, is changing signs at its New York and London offices to reflect the acquisition of Merrill Lynch & Co.

The Manhattan tower at One Bryant Park on 42nd Street will have a “Bank of America Merrill Lynch” sign added to the sky lobby, reception floor and video wall, the Charlotte, North Carolina-based bank said in a memo to the staff. The Merrill Lynch Financial Centre in London will be rebranded as the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Financial Centre, another memo said.

[uaarkson]

So have they started putting up the rest of the windows yet?

[Dac150]

I’m relieved to hear that the Merrill name is being incorporated and not just being faded out.

[Stu]

This is my favorite skyscraper built in the last 30 or so years in New York, though I like some angles better than others (west looking east is my favorite view).

[NYguy]

This is my favorite skyscraper built in the last 30 or so years in New York, though I like some angles better than others (west looking east is my favorite view).

I like that view also, but I think east looking west (the 6th Ave side) is my favorite.

[NYguy]

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[CHAPINM1]

Just lovin it!!! Love those southeast shots especially! They really show this tower's true impact as it comes in right behind the Empire State Building.

Also, is it just me or are they cleaning windows that have not yet been cleaned? In the last two pictures it appears as if some of the windows are being cleaned for the first time.

[meh_cd]

My picture (the last one) is already several months old. Feels like yesterday, though. :) Not sure if they've cleaned the rest since then.

[NYguy]

My picture (the last one) is already several months old. Feels like yesterday, though. :) Not sure if they've cleaned the rest since then.

Says a lot that not much has really changed...;)

[WEMO]

nice building

[NYguy]

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[kingsdl76]

:previous: :previous:

Great Pictures!!

[NYC4Life]

Loving that mini skyline of Fort Lee, NJ.

[NYguy]

Content to be # 2 .....

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[kznyc2k]

9/12, random vistas...

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[NYguy]

9/12, random vistas...

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I love the way the spire shows up in random views around town.

[NYguy]

Can you say "canyon wall"?

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[NYC4Life]

Sixth Avenue never fails to impress with its wall of skyscrapers.

[Dac150]

And that's just about a 1/3 of that canyon from one side. 6th is the best.

[NYguy]

6th is the best.

Park Avenue just may beat it though...


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[NYguy]

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

Kings of Gotham...

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[NYguy]

http://www.crainsnewyork.com/apps/pbcs.dll/dcce?Site=CN&Date=20090922&Module=12&Kategori=toc&Class=121&Type=red_featured&ID=2306010&Selected=5

Texas law firm on a tear in NYC
Two years after hitting town, McKool triples its space, taking 30,000 SF at Bank of America tower.

By Amanda Fung
September 22, 2009

Law firm McKool Smith is tripling its Manhattan office space as it takes over the entire 47th floor of the Bank of America Tower.

The Dallas-based firm has sublet 30,000 square feet from law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld at 1 Bryant Park, the newly opened Bank of America Tower on West 42nd Street. Terms of the sublease were not disclosed. Sources say McKool’s sublease is for 15 years and the asking rent was lower than the $100 per square foot asked of Akin. McKool previously occupied 10,000 square feet at 399 Park Ave.

[drewmandan]

I'm trying to decide if this is modernist or steam punk in metal. And what's with the building beside it with the roof that looks like a ray gun?

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[NYguy]

what's with the building beside it with the roof that looks like a ray gun?

Not sure what you mean.

[THE BIG APPLE]

Not sure what you mean.

He's talking about the spire of 4 Times Square. Now it has a longer spire. Before 9/11 it had a shorter one.

[THE BIG APPLE]

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[NYguy]

He's talking about the spire of 4 Times Square. Now it has a longer spire. Before 9/11 it had a shorter one.

That's an antenna. It was added after the antenna from 1 WTC was destroyed.


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[uaarkson]

I want lightinnnnnnngggggggg!

[antinimby]

Look at that ugly McSam at the foot of the NY Times.

[THE BIG APPLE]

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[NYguy]

Went by the tower a few days ago, looks like they have been making progress on the windows. Could have just been my view though. Here's an older shot.

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[WSH]

Will the roof/ antenna of this ever be lit up???

[JSsocal]

The only lighting we have seen are the horizontal strips that ran vertically up the "atrium," for lack of a better term, and those lights have been disabled for a long time.

Here's the picture, taken by Coolczech last year (boy it's been long).
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[plinko]

I was at the top of the ESB on Monday night and it was really strange to look at a structure in Midtown and not have to look down. That spire is huge!

[NYguy]

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601093&sid=at7G.3YyKhRQ

Bank of America Tower’s Aureole Serves Pastrami, $180 Pairing

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/data?pid=avimage&iid=iw5iNk78YFUY

Review by Ryan Sutton
Sept. 30 (Bloomberg)

Bank of America Corp. Chief Executive Officer Kenneth Lewis, who paid $2.5 billion for Countrywide Financial Corp. and $29 billion for Merrill Lynch & Co., can now enjoy a $180 Krug champagne-paired tasting menu in the company “cafeteria” at the base of its new $1 billion Manhattan skyscraper.

Or he could save money and order some pastrami in the same joint. My advice: Get the pastrami.

Welcome to Aureole -- not really a mess hall. Charlie Palmer has relocated the fine-dining gem of his restaurant empire from a townhouse on the quiet Upper East Side to a heavily trafficked stretch on the edge of Times Square. That means tourists, Conde Nast editors and bankers who drop in from upstairs.

And since bankers aren’t eating as lavishly as they used to, there’s a new casual component to the restaurant: a bar room up front with pork-belly pastrami sliders. They’re slathered with Russian dressing that cuts through the fatty spiced meat.

I’d recommend these little $15 sandwiches to Lewis, even though a chief executive may prefer to indulge in a square $180 meal every now and then (It’s $115 without wine). But that supper, just like billion-dollar acquisitions, needs to offer value. This one doesn’t.

It’s a parallel tasting menu. Fish eggs are prepared two ways: Sun trout roe, atop a bland mound of crab, explodes into a briny bliss; the second dish, American caviar, nearly disappears amid a horseradish creme fraiche sauce.

Culinary Redundancy

Flatfish comes two ways too: Dover sole is speckled with brilliant hints of slightly sweet, slightly musty champagne grapes; Atlantic gray sole is fried to a flavorless crisp, Gorton’s fish-stick style.

Course three is red meat, yet again, two ways: A slice of duck breast and a slice of underseared dry-aged strip steak. You eat the duck first, which is a mistake, since your beef is now cold. You’re still hungry after the minuscule portions. So you fill up on course four: cheesecake two ways, one with ricotta, the other with blue cheese. No wonder America keeps getting fatter.

Chef Christopher Lee, who led Midtown’s Gilt to two- Michelin stars, is to blame for this expensive experiment; Adam Tihany, the designer, is to blame for the interiors. The low dining-room ceiling does little to remind you you’re in Manhattan’s second-tallest building.

Cacophony

Tables are cramped -- the rear ends of waiters can hover dangerously close to your face. Raucous businessmen can raise the sound to unbearable levels. Refuse to sit at a table near the bar room: A lack of doors separating the spaces results in cacophony.

The fare is billed as progressive American. Here’s what that means: Christopher Lee takes excellent ingredients and manipulates the flavor out of them.

Take the diver scallops, on the three-course, $84 prix- fixe. The bivalves are typically seared on the outside and left rare inside. But Lee sees a need to deconstruct where no one else does. His textureless scallop is topped with a crunchy disk, with overseared foie gras thrown on top to make things fancy. A good scallop is complex. Lee’s is complicated.

Remoulade, tasty on its own, is disassembled into sour little purees of shallots, cornichons and lemon. Don’t let the misplaced molecular gastronomy touch your soft-shell crab. Lee also takes mirin, a Japanese cooking wine, and whips it into foam that mimics the taste of shaving cream.

Haute Office Fare

Like Nissin’s “Cup Noodles’’? Lee goes through all the effort to recreate the signature mushy pasta and thin broth of the $1 office snack. Cost: $25 for the pork-belly noodle bowl at lunch. The $19 bar burger is a mix of expertly aged beef overwhelmed by a ramp dressing; the sweet sauce is a ringer for the “special sauce” at McDonald’s.

The food’s not all bad. Short ribs inject a welcome hint of beefiness into a sweet carrot soup. Tuna Wellington is a clever, hearty interplay of soft dough and softer, rare fish. And perhaps a man like Lewis can afford a bad meal or two to find the winning dishes here. But the rest of us cannot.

Rating: *
The Bloomberg Questions

Cost? Prix-fixe at $84, $115. A la carte at bar room.

Sound level? Unusually loud for fine dining.

Date place? No. It says you’re trying too hard.

Inside tip? Eat at the bar; skip the stuffy dining room.

Special feature? Excellent value $65 wine pairing.

Private room? Yes.

Will I be back? For the pastrami sliders and wine.

Aureole is at 135 West 42nd St. in the Bank of America Tower. Information: +1-212-319-1660; http://www.charliepalmer.com

[YSL]

Why is this building listed as 881' ft to the roof? Isn't it 945 feet to the roof?

[CHAPINM1]

Why is this building listed as 881' ft to the roof? Isn't it 945 feet to the roof?

Yeah no kidding, it's been bothering the hell out of me as well! I have no idea what whoever put the 881' figure was thinking... Even specific moderators will agree that it's the wrong figure.

[JSsocal]

^^^It's listed as 881' to the roof because it is 881' to the roof. It is 945 feet to the very top of the glass on the tower.

[CHAPINM1]

^^^It's listed as 881' to the roof because it is 881' to the roof. It is 945 feet to the very top of the glass on the tower.

Still, 945 feet should be listed.

[YSL]

Still, 945 feet should be listed.

The official roof height is 945 ft, and the official total height is 1,200ft.

That 881 title really bothers me as well! Someone please correct that!!

[plinko]

a few random close-ups I took while walking down 5th Avenue on Monday morning...nothing special...

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[NYguy]

^ Great shots.


Why is this building listed as 881' ft to the roof? Isn't it 945 feet to the roof?

Yes it is. Roof height is listed as to the top of the parapet, like on any other tower.

[americanskyscraper22]

can this be clearly seen from the top of the rock, and i dont just mean the antenna

[NEWyorkSKYSCRAPER]

Does anyone know when this tower is going to be officially completed?

[NYCLuver]

Does anyone know when this tower is going to be officially completed?

Scheduled to be completed early next year I believe.

[NYguy]

can this be clearly seen from the top of the rock, and i dont just mean the antenna

There's only about a million photos of that in this thread. (And it doesn't have an antenna).

[NYguy]

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[NYguy]

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[Zapatan]

The official roof height is 945 ft, and the official total height is 1,200ft.

That 881 title really bothers me as well! Someone please correct that!!


The total floor count is also 57, not 53 someone please correct that ;)

Great building btw, just huge

[americanskyscraper22]

There's only about a million photos of that in this thread. (And it doesn't have an antenna).

thanks for the info, and i dont know waht iwas thinking. its clearly a spire:haha:

[pj3000]

^ Yeah, you must be crazy to have confused its "spire" with a lowly antenna!

I mean, what's wrong with you? A spire is an elegant architectural element, whereas an antenna is just some utilitarian-looking mast of of metalwork... oh wait...:)

[NYguy]

^ Yeah, you must be crazy to have confused its "spire" with a lowly antenna!

I mean, what's wrong with you? A spire is an elegant architectural element, whereas an antenna is just some utilitarian-looking mast of of metalwork... oh wait...:)

What you call "elegant" can easily differ from the opinion of someone else. But failing that, anyone with a little reading comprehension would know that it was a spire.

[kznyc2k]

2009-10-10...Still lots of window cleaning to be done:

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What are those things? They look like cellular antennae:

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Can you guess where the construction elevator was? ;)

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The winter garden.. you'll have to squint

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[Rizzo]

Very cool. Thanks for the close updates

[NYguy]

2009-10-10...Still lots of window cleaning to be done:

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Very nice. This building is a visual treat down a canyon of massive boxes.

[NYguy]

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[colemonkee]

If this were an art exhibit, the title of this piece would be: "Fat Towers, Skinny Jeans"

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[Zapatan]

what's the top occupied office floor in this building? I think it's the 51st or the 53rd but i'm not sure. just curious thanks

[korzym]

These updates are awesome, the only thing that gets to me is this building's location. So sad that such architecture is hidden.

[NYguy]

These updates are awesome, the only thing that gets to me is this building's location. So sad that such architecture is hidden.

For Midtown Manhattan, it's actually one of the more visible (thanks to Bryant Park). From most other angles though, the tower itself can be harder to see. The spire is more visible from varied locations in Manhattan.


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Viewed from Sandy Hook (NJ)

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[NYguy]

Sharp detail...

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[CHAPINM1]

They've been working on the upper floors quickly as of late I see! I was up on the top of the Rock on October 7th and I could still see some exposed mechanical equipment. Even though it's obvious they are not done, I can tell progress has been made! Sorry I can't provide photos, I was up there at night and the quality was $h!t...

[meh_cd]

Looks much better than it did this summer.

[chex]

sorry if i question maybe the same than others, but i have followed this one since start, but when TO left the thread, why it isnt finished totally yet??

[NYguy]

sorry if i question maybe the same than others, but i have followed this one since start, but when TO left the thread, why it isnt finished totally yet??

A number of reasons. Suffice to say, it isn't scheduled to be completed until sometime next year. But on the outside at least, its starting to look complete.


They've been working on the upper floors quickly as of late I see! I was up on the top of the Rock on October 7th and I could still see some exposed mechanical equipment. Even though it's obvious they are not done, I can tell progress has been made! Sorry I can't provide photos, I was up there at night and the quality was $h!t...

Things really did pick up when they got that last financing. It's no more a question of "when are they going to fix the windows..."

[NYguy]

Interesting BID battle over the tower...
http://www.observer.com/2009/real-estate/diamond-rough

Diamond From the Rough

By Lysandra Ohrstrom
October 20, 2009

On Oct. 7, the City Council passed the first of two laws that would allow business improvement districts to take joint custody of properties that fall within the boundaries of more than one BID.

Together, the bills will end what has essentially been a three-year, amicable custody battle between the Times Square Alliance and the Bryant Park Management Corporation for management of the Durst Organization's midtown gem, the Bank of America tower at One Bryant Park.

It took Durst more than 40 years to cobble together the 32 different parcels on 42nd Street between Avenue of the Americas and Seventh Avenue. When the lots were combined in 2004, the new site included ground located in both BIDs, though certain lots did not fall into either.

"We knew it would be split between two bids, but we didn't know how that would work," Douglas Durst, co-president of the Durst Organization, told The Commercial Observer. "It was a very torturous process to get it all worked out. It should have been simple."


...Durst agreed to pay half of its annual $300,000 assessment to Bryant Park and half to the Times Square Alliance.

...Construction of the 52-story, $1.1 billion building, designed by Cook and Fox Architects, started in 2004. Bank of America occupies about half of the tower. At his wife's suggestion, Mr. Durst opted for the address One Bryant Park over 1111 Sixth Avenue.

The building has had a few hitches-most notably debris falling from the construction site-but they pale beside the process of assembling the site.

"We were very fortunate in getting an incredible market that lasted about a year," Mr. Durst explained of how the recession has impacted leasing at the tower. "When we were building, I said our rents would start with a ‘1' in front of them, and everyone thought that was not possible. We had that when we started leasing. We even had some leases in the $200 range at the end," he said. "That lasted about three weeks, though. Then, as you know, the market disappeared."

Nonetheless, One Bryant Park is 98 percent occupied, Mr. Durst said, and rents are still in the $100s a square foot-"the low $100s," he added. Some of One Bryant Park's tenants have subleased space in the past year, and Durst is building out the 40,000 square feet of vacant space.

[CHAPINM1]

Would those last 40,000 feet of vacant space be on the upper floors?

[NYguy]

Would those last 40,000 feet of vacant space be on the upper floors?

Most likely, though I do rememer someone signing a lease for that space.

[CHAPINM1]

Most likely, though I do rememer someone signing a lease for that space.

Finally, they can clean and clear the windows and space on those floors so they can blend in with that of the other windows and floors in the rest of the building!!!

[NYguy]

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[Cro Burnham]

This is still under construction?

They built the Great Wall in less time. :haha: :haha:

[uaarkson]

Wow, really? If that's the case then this tower predates America.

[NYguy]

PlushNY (http://www.flickr.com/photos/plushny/4018424240/sizes/o/in/set-72157621629053911/)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2516/4018424240_c4242a0326_o.jpg

[Govertical]

^^^droooooooooolllllllllllllll

[Crush_Buds]

I think this building would be showcased much better if that fugly antenna on the 4 Times Square building were gone. Though it actually looks good in that last shot. From bigger panos there are just too many spires/antennas in close proximity now imo. Thoughts?

I generally like the building though. Just imagine when WTC 1 is finished. Too add to the list, NY might as well be called the "City of Spires."

[canadate]

Here's some photos I took a few months ago..
http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/ae212/canadate/DSCF1152.jpg
http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/ae212/canadate/DSCF1156.jpg
http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/ae212/canadate/DSCF1159.jpg
http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/ae212/canadate/DSCF1166.jpg
^^You can see my building. lol (the brown one under the GWB at the far right)
http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/ae212/canadate/DSCF1165.jpg
http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/ae212/canadate/DSCF1167.jpg
^^I know I know..this one isn't so great. I used panorama mode on my camera..just figured out how to stitch though..so soon I'll be posting real panoramas

[steveve]

AMAZING photos ^^^

The colours/building look SO great that day :cheers:

[canadate]

AMAZING photos ^^^

The colours/building look SO great that day :cheers:

Thanks! I'll be posting some more within like the next 20 minutes.

[canadate]

alright so I don't think posting all the ones that I wanted to b/c they're ones when the tower was still missing windows..plus my connection is kinda slow right now..but here's some anyway..
http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/ae212/canadate/October%2024%20BOA/DSCF1172.jpg
http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/ae212/canadate/October%2024%20BOA/DSCF1183.jpg
http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/ae212/canadate/October%2024%20BOA/DSCF1249.jpg
http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/ae212/canadate/October%2024%20BOA/DSCF1251.jpg
http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/ae212/canadate/October%2024%20BOA/DSCF1265.jpg

[HarshLiving]

I have to agree this tower is taking a really long time. But I still like it.

[Aleks]

Hmm... the main part is completed. I'm pretty sure it's safe to say that this thread should be moved to the Completed Highrises section.

[Cro Burnham]

Hmm... the main part is completed. I'm pretty sure it's safe to say that this thread should be moved to the Completed Highrises section.

Um, WRONG! They are still replacing damaged window panels. Duh!

Seriously, this task should be done by 1st qtr 2015, and then, once all the windows have been squeejeed and the firestair interior paint job touched up, the thread can be moved to the completed section. Not a minute before, though.

Be patient - we should allow the many admirers of this impressive building to preen in its extended 99.999% complete stage.

[Aleks]

I can see perfectly fine, I know there are still panels that need to be put up. But many other threads before have been moved to the completed section even before this one.

Have any tenants moved in?

[Cro Burnham]

I can see perfectly fine, I know there are still panels that need to be put up. But many other threads before have been moved to the completed section even before this one.

Have any tenants moved in?

Aleks, I was just goofing around - I agree with you 100%. This building should have been in the completed section months ago. But I think people like posting pictures of it, and nobody looks at pictures in the completed section. Ergo, it stays in the construction section.

[NYguy]

Have any tenants moved in?

BofA itself has been in the building. However the building itself is not complete. I am monitoring the situation and have no problem with the thread remaining where it is until all outward appearances are complete.

[CHAPINM1]

In those close-up shots on the previous page, you can see the spire literally sitting on top of that massive concrete core.

[SkyscrapersOfNewYork]

yes it can i went last week and it was the best views ive ever seen of the Bank of America Tower

[THE BIG APPLE]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/haydensst/4100624513/

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2493/4100624513_36bf4aaf89_o.jpg

[NYCLuver]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2776/4113083121_eb881b93ca_b.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2600/4113852882_87a02e7b57_b.jpg