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Site Of Two-Skyscraper Development Awaits Activity At 495 Eleventh Avenue In Midtown West, Manhattan

At number 20 on our year-end countdown is a pair of mixed-use residential skyscrapers at 495 Eleventh Avenue in Midtown West, Manhattan. Designed by FXCollaborative with Gene Kaufman Architects as the architect of record, the 589,842-square-foot project consists of a 680-foot-tall, 57-story edifice paired with a slightly shorter 653-foot-tall, 56-story sibling that will rise along Eleventh Avenue between West 39th and West 40th Streets, next to the Jakob K. Javits Center. NYC Economic Development Corporation is listed as the owner behind the applications that were filed back in late October.

A hotel is slated to be included in the design program and would be tucked in the southern tower with a total of 683 guest rooms, while the northern edifice would house 358 homes, as well as 45,344 square feet of community facility space. Other aspects include storage for 86 bicycles on the cellar level spanning 774 square feet, a ground-level storage room for 96 bicycles measuring 861 square feet, NYPD parking spaces, offices, retail space, and supportive housing units.

Below are renderings released earlier this year that depict the southern structure with a flat western profile and a series of gradual setbacks on the eastern elevation. The opposite northern tower features a more straightforward massing with a repetitive stack of floor plates with a composite mixture of light and dark façade panels. Mechanical bulkheads cap each building and are wrapped in identical envelopes.

Subway access can be found either by heading east on West 42nd Street to the Port Authority Bus Terminal, servicing the A, C, and E trains with extensive access to both the Times Square-42nd Street and 42nd Street-Bryant Park stations, or by taking a brisk walk to the 34th Street-Hudson Yards station, serviced by the 7 train at Bella Abzug Park by Related Companies‘ first phase of Hudson Yards.

Demolition permits have yet to be filed for the New York Police Department parking lot, and an estimated completion date for 495 Eleventh Avenue has not been announced.

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