Who cares, you'll be long dead in 100 years.

ESB
Chrysler
Woolworth
AIG
40 Wall
Flatiron
Trinity
Fed Hall
Statue of Liberty
Waldorf-Astoria
GE
American Radiator
500 Fifth
MLIC Tower

Et al

They're not going anywhere. That's "old" New York.

For those who don't know NY well, this photo by John Flint shows the proximity of the two 300m + towers that Extell is building on 57th St.
JohnFlint on SSC
http://images9.fotki.com/v131/photos...ures036-vi.jpg

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showth...5#post83259265

57th Street be ballin' :P

Fingers crossed they plan to build something tall and iconic here, along the lines of the MoMa tower.

Extell filed the following with the DOB on 15 Sept. 2011 in connection with demolition:

http://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/Wo...04&requestid=2

Filed on 15 Sep. 2011:

http://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/Wo...06&requestid=2

The following was filed with the DOB on 26 Sep. 2011. I can't wait for renderings for this project.

http://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/Jo...ssdocnumber=02

Are there news about this building ?

No they're still proceeding with demolition.

Is it true that also this tower will be a supertall ?

It should be. It has a lot more air rights than One57, which Extell also is developing a few sites to the east.

I heard a rumor from an inside source-obviously no guarantee-that the tower will be ~90 floors. We shall see...

If it's true, that should yield a roof height around 1,250', although that doesn't account for any potential architectural elements on top.

More demo permits were filed with the DOB on 18 Oct. 2011:

http://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/Wo...70&requestid=2

Wow, 1250 feets? I find it very unlikely for this area. I believe it will be somewhere between 1083 feets.

It would be great to have a building on top of 1050 feets facing the central park. And surely this building would yield many sales because of this incredible view (The example of his "brother" One57 of the same company. The Extell is amazing!

If it's "as of right," they can build as high as they please.

This is the question. How high they want. :shrug:

But it would be fantastic to have a building with about 350 meters in this area. Especially with the loss of height of the Tower Verre for Midtown.

Demolition work was proceeding when I walked by on 20 Oct. 2011.

Barnett's success with One57 bodes well for the rumoured 90-story, 1250 foot tall 225 W57th!

http://therealdeal.com/newyork/artic...ot-source-says

Demolition is now well underway--the two buildings in black netting on 57th are now the same height. Passed by last night but didn't get any pictures as it was too dark.