NEW YORK | 31 W. 57th St | FT | FLOORS
I will hate to see these buildings go, but the 57th Street wave is just too hot...
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/15/ny...gain.html?_r=0 Bookstore May Have to Flee the Wrecking Ball, Again http://static01.nyt.com/images/2014/...-master675.jpg By CHARLES V BAGLI JAN. 14, 2014 Quote:
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Google Earth view...
http://www.pbase.com/nyguy/image/154141752/original.jpg http://www.pbase.com/nyguy/image/154141753/original.jpg http://www.pbase.com/nyguy/image/154141754/original.jpg Location in relation to other development or potential development sites... http://www.pbase.com/nyguy/image/154141785/original.jpg |
My guess is another skinny supertall residential, and with a location just off Fifth, could have the highest prices of any of the 57th Street towers.
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Ow. That's gonna hurt when those are knocked down. If only they transferred the airrights to 50w58th. That's a crummy building that would be ok being demoed.
http://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.honestbui...134bf8f9a4.JPG https://www.honestbuildings.com/buil.../50-w-58th-st/ Actually, now that I look into it, 50w58th was sold in 2012 to BOB 57 LLC, with plans to demo in 2015. So that may just happen. Quote:
I think this is one of the assemblages that RW and Crawford have been hinting at. |
Yep. These buildings back up to the Hadassah building, which was just sold.
So you can see this is a bigger assemblage than just the three 57th Street buildings. Vornado has very substantial air rights here. |
The townhouse on the left can go. It's plain hideous but the other ones are beautiful and should stay. This will be painful to watch.
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Will be interesting to follow this development. They have Park Lane to contend with, too.
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this is a good yet bad thing,sure we may see something good arise from this but these buildings are really a loss :/
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This is a tragedy we lost enough of these buildings with 432 Park Ave... can no one do as the Hearst did and incorporate these towers in with the design?
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^ikr? its disheartening :(
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Yeah, plans are quietly coming together. The views of Central Park drives this and other similar developments. So I expect something tall here. They will at least get a head-start on whatever happens with the Park Lane. |
New York sucks.
I wish those three buildings were landmarked; surely there are plenty of banal buildings on 57th street that can be razed for this tower. Will never get over the Drake Hotel and this will be another catastrophe. So many of the buildings that make or made New York beautiful came down or are coming down at rapid speed, while the hideousness remains untouched. But at the end of the day it all comes down to $$, and this is NYC and not Paris where beauty is celebrated. It's much cheaper to buy these helpless beauties and knock them down vs razing the hulking 1970s dumps. |
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As is obvious, you can't just replace one site with another. Still, it will be disappointing to see these towers go, but there is nothing particularly landmark-worthy of them. The value to me is in variety of scale on the block. But do I need to see a townhouse on that stretch of 57th? Not really. That stretch of 57th is turning into something else, those townhouses may no longer have a place there. |
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The general state of architecture in this city has me on edge. |
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http://www.scoutingny.com/about-that...-sixth-avenue/ http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8526/8...09b735bb_o.jpg |
Man, I wish u could pick these old beauts up and relocate.
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Can they not use those facades and incorporate them? It happens here in Toronto all the time (though sometimes it looks pretty bad). Would definitely be sad to see those buildings go.
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Rizzoli was an awesome store back in the day
Although I understand the economic rationale for its impending demise, I can remember spending very pleasant times leafing through very beautiful (and expensive) architecture books back in the 80s before the wealth of photos these hallowed pages now provide. RIP, Rizzoli, and thanks for the memories.
To the new developers: build something worthy of Rizzoli! |
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