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I'm dying to see them remove some of the blue shrinkwrap or whatever it is and see if the glass color aligns with the renders.

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Originally Posted by JMKeynes (Post 8119271)

Stunning!!!

https://therealdeal.com/wp-content/u...Park-Tower.jpg

Garbage overgrown flattop. Eye of the beholder or lower standards, not much consensus with this one.

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Originally Posted by NYguy (Post 8125686)

https://www.instagram.com/p/BgeOdEQn...-by=echelon_ny

https://scontent-sea1-1.cdninstagram...NDEyMg%3D%3D.2

This view makes it look both goofy and ominous.

I really want to see the facade because I think it will be a shiny, crisp facade.

https://therealdeal.com/2018/03/21/w...al-park-tower/

Wanted: Sales director at Central Park Tower
Jason Karadus is re-joining Brown Harris Stevens

By E.B. Solomont
March 21, 2018

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Karadus is re-joining Brown Harris Stevens as an agent, the firm said.

“I love the project,” Karadus said. “But I’ve never punched a clock in my life.”

...Karadus said he was unhappy with the daily grind of working in-house for a developer, and missed his resale business too.

“This was a very corporate position and I gave it six months,” he said.

“I really do believe in the project, and I believe in luxury,” he said. “I look forward to selling this project — but from the outside.”

Extell Development’s Gary Barnett closed on $1.14 billion in financing for the project earlier this year, when it finalized a $900 million construction loan from a consortium led by JPMorgan Chase. The developer also secured $235 million in preferred equity from an unnamed hedge fund. Terms of the loan give Extell three years to sell $500 million worth of condos.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bgl8xtyD...ken-by=zuckiji

https://scontent-sea1-1.cdninstagram...NDk5Ng%3D%3D.2

looks like its hit 900'

So still another 600+ feet to grow? This will totally dominate everything around it.

^
I still can't believe all the change that's happened in the past 5 years from that view. It's absolutely incredible.

^ The view of the skyline is so much better with peaks and contrasting heights, a concept the NIMBYs do not get with their nonsense need to have everything be the same heights/fitting in/contextual.

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Originally Posted by antinimby (Post 8139064)

^ The view of the skyline is so much better with peaks and contrasting heights, a concept the NIMBYs do not get with their nonsense need to have everything be the same heights/fitting in/contextual.

Contexualism isn’t always “nonsense” when it comes to things like setbacks and quality of design/materials though. Just look at the huge number of Kaufman/Poon budget hotels with their huge plazas and garish materials and the damage they’ve done to the cityscape of the Garment District. Or the rampant value-engineering that ruined 5 Beekman. Or the travesty that is the watered-down design of Moinian’s 3 Hudson Blvd. Those are the cases where a little bit of neighborhood opposition honestly wouldn’t be inappropriate. Unfortunately, howver, the NIMBY crowd has decided to ignore those real issues and fight against attractive, high-quality buildings just because they’re tall. In that regard I agree with you—their opposition to these towers is completely unwarranted.

On a side note, a few posts up, check out 220 CPS. Blends in so well with the much older structures in the foreground (along CP South).

220 CPS and 111 W 57th will be ones for the architecture books. I could just picture a nice book at some college called "fundamentals of architecture" with a pic of Steinway on the front cover and being used in some architecture class for freshmen.

Sadly, the class on the exam had an average of a 20... and only 1 passed. He went on to design the 1st mega tall for NYC. After great success, and going on to designing Chicago's 1st mega tall, he was struck by a bus (that was taking NIMBYs to a community meeting) and died.

But he is not to be forgotten, as the "fundamentals of architecture", with the Steinway pic, inspired him to transform two skylines.

(credits screen)

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Originally Posted by streetscaper (Post 8139585)

pic by me

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/822/4...79bae277_h.jpg FW4A0922 by Kevin Leclerc, on Flickr

This is a nice pic.

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Originally Posted by streetscaper (Post 8139585)

pic by me

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/822/4...79bae277_h.jpg FW4A0922 by Kevin Leclerc, on Flickr

Nice shot... but where are the shadows?

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Originally Posted by ILNY (Post 8140894)

Nice shot... but where are the shadows?

I see tree shadows! TEAR THEM DOWN NAOOO!

I can almost feel it passing both 220 and One57...interesting how One57 is looking smaller and smaller.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BhFsbl0n...by=orangedoors

https://scontent-iad3-1.cdninstagram...86897664_n.jpg

I do wish they would be just a tad above a little bit more expeditious with the façade........

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Originally Posted by Prezrezc (Post 8141711)

I do wish they would be just a tad above a little bit more expeditious with the façade........

It does look like they added more glass on the West side, I see 14 floors now instead of the 11 floors which it had been at for a long time...

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Originally Posted by nyguy (Post 8141461)

i can almost feel it passing both 220 and one57...interesting how one57 is looking smaller and smaller.

https://www.instagram.com/p/bhfsbl0n...by=orangedoors

https://scontent-iad3-1.cdninstagram...86897664_n.jpg

the greatest city in the world!!!!

I'd imagine as investment properties, some of the owners of units in One57 will seek to buy some next door. One57 started it all folks! The godfather of the 57th Street revolution.

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Originally Posted by chris08876 (Post 8142035)

I'd imagine as investment properties, some of the owners of units in One57 will seek to buy some next door. One57 started it all folks! The godfather of the 57th Street revolution.

We can say we watched this era of skyscrapers, from birth, into full bloom. I remember watching One57 go up, and never imagining the rate of supertalls that we've been blessed with. Cheers to our Mommy One57!:cheers:

This has about another 600 feet to go, no?

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Originally Posted by tdawg (Post 8144104)

This has about another 600 feet to go, no?

About right.

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Originally Posted by NYCLuver (Post 8144264)

April 5th, 2018

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/fMfwQg.jpg

Almost heads above the others (minus 432).

https://www.instagram.com/p/BhMP3uth...by=nickybivona

https://scontent-iad3-1.cdninstagram...92721664_n.jpg

great photo¡¡¡ thank you¡¡¡
:)

It's strange how the facade (with the thick metal panels between floors) emphasizes the horizontal rather than the vertical. Most skyscraper facades want to express verticality. I guess when you have the actual height it's not as important.

Not a big fan of the blue windows.

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Originally Posted by 401PAS (Post 8145241)

Not a big fan of the blue windows.

You can't see the windows yet, as they're covered.

Only in NY...

A 900’ Tower with 656’ left to go!!

It’s the Capital of the World!

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Originally Posted by JMKeynes (Post 8145895)

Only in NY...

A 900’ Tower with 656’ left to go!!

It’s the Capital of the World!

656' is somewhere around the plateau (typical) of Midtown.

For reference... 656' , minus 1', is equivalent to a "One Wall Street" rising.

http://nyc-architecture.com/LM/srivals8.gif
Credit: nycarchitecture

We tend to forget the impact that 656' has given the surroundings, but in many cities, that is a new tallest. If you place 656' out in a field, you'd be like damn... its big.

Now, the only in NY thing could also be said for the fact that 800' towers go unnoticed. That itself is scary, yet a testament to the boom and the magnitude of its skyscraper collection, spanning 3 centuries!

Whats exiting is we are on our way to being the global city with the most super talls. Where not there yet, but catching up. If all goes well, the #1 spot is in reach. 2# is not acceptable!

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