The Osborne is gorgeous, but that lobby is spectacular; ornate beyond words!

Wow. You have to go to the middle east to see anything like that inside being built in this age...

Beautiful!!!!!!:slob:

That is absolutely awesome!

It's still cheaper to live in The Osborne then most of the new NYC luxury developments.

SALES: http://streeteasy.com/nyc/building/the-osborne#sales

I'm sure these prices will skyrocket once the Nordstrom tower gets built.
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The Osborne, built between 1883 and 1885 and expanded in 1906 — was the brainchild of the stone contractor Thomas Osborne and is a New York City landmark and has housed greats like Leonard Bernstein and Bobby Short. It was designed by James Ware with wealthy New Yorkers in mind and serves as a kind of Dakota across the street from Carnegie Hall. Each floor had four large apartments richly detailed with touches such as parquet floors, rare wood and plaster mouldings and tiled fireplaces. While some of the original apartments remain intact, about half have been broken up into smaller units.

T lobby serves as a testament to late-19th-century extravagance. The floors are a mix of small mosaic tiles and slabs of varicolored Italian marble. Complementary marble was used for the wainscoting and carved marble recesses with benches. Dancing nudes and intricately decorated archways take the eye to a ceiling done in rich hues of red, blue and gold leaf. Stepping inside one is instantly thrust back a hundred years intime and maybe even further .. Andrew Loyyd Webber eat your heart out …

There is a 3% flip tax.
http://streeteasy.com/nyc/building/the-osborne#sales

Update: 225 West 57th Street

http://www.yimbynews.com/wp-content/...08/225w571.jpg
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NIKOLAI FEDAK, Demolition Update: 225 West 57th Street, http://www.yimbynews.com/# AUGUST 5TH 2013

Apparently the tower is in the process of redesign ...

Vito Corleone
Most likely it has to do with this:

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I was speculating that could be, because they went from being notified of the construction to being another piece of the puzzle.



But whatever the case, I'm sure it's still on schedule. These things often go through some type of redesign anyway, shouldn't be anything too major.

Some overhead from google earth showing proximity to One57...


http://www.pbase.com/nyguy/image/151779345/original.jpg



http://www.pbase.com/nyguy/image/151779463/original.jpg



http://www.pbase.com/nyguy/image/151779347/original.jpg



http://www.pbase.com/nyguy/image/151779349/original.jpg

NYguy, it looks as if your screen pics from Google Earth were from about 1,600 feet. On purpose?

No, just close enough to see the sites clearly. It will be very dramatic once those other towers are in place.

It will look amazingly dramatic!

20 months to build is pretty quick for a tower of this scale.

^ Re-read that carefully. 20 months only for excavation and foundation. That actually is a long time.

Meaning that this tower's is gonna be a total
Be. He. Moth.

Why will it take that long?

One thing you will notice from looking at this image, One57 shifts mostly to the 57th street side. If this tower is shifted in a similar way to the north, 58th street, it could save at least a portion of the views from both towers.


http://www.pbase.com/nyguy/image/151779349/original.jpg

A-MAZ-ING! Finally another "real" tallest is on it's way, all I'm hoping is that if it is going to take this long it better look spectacular. :)

I too am expecting spectacular. The demo is just about complete and we have seen no rendering thus far, so yes it better scream NEW YORK CITY!:D

I just hope they will not shorten this tower, they were thinking about it after Sandy hit NYC.