[NYguy]

Originally Posted by ajbeaver25

It almost reminds me of 15 HY but with setbacks

A boxier version.

This building - at 1,050 ft - would be basically the Empire State Building without the spire. It would be around the height of many of the supertalls planned and going up around the country. It’s a pretty significant height, but seems less so because of its location among so many giants.













https://www.crainsnewyork.com/real-estat...ion-project-former-wellington-hotel-site

Extell aims to massively expand project at former Wellington Hotel site


EDDIE SMALL
October 24, 2025

Extell Development has filed plans to nearly triple the height of its Manhattan project at 871 Seventh Ave., seeking to transform what was planned as a 27-story hotel into a 71-story mixed-use tower.

The Gary Barnett-led firm had filed plans in 2023 for a 27-story, roughly 336,000-square-foot hotel with 208 rooms at the address between West 55th and West 56th streets, but it now hopes to have the project stand 71 stories and 1,050 feet tall and span about 484,000 square feet, according to an application the company recently filed with the Department of City Planning. In exchange for the additional size, Extell would upgrade the nearby subway station at 50th Street and Broadway.

These improvements to the 1 train station would consist of building elevators to help commuters access its southbound and northbound platforms, along with building a staircase into the station east of Broadway and north of West 51st Street. The elevators in particular would make the station more accessible to people with disabilities, the application says.

The overall expanded project would be split between roughly 301,000 square feet of residential space and 183,000 square feet of commercial space, split between 159,000 square feet of hotel space and 24,000 square feet of retail space on the ground floor. The development would include 156 hotel rooms, 130 residential units and 55 parking spots on the second floor accessible through a two-car elevator.

Extell filed a similar application over the summer to massively expand the size of its project at 655 Madison Ave., an office tower at the corner of East 60th Street it purchased last year for roughly $160 million. The firm had initially planned to build a 37-story mixed-use tower at the site but has applied to make it 74 stories tall instead in exchange for making improvements to the Fifth Avenue/59th Street subway station.