Just some extra info from TRD:
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Located between Pier 42 and Pier 35, the building would be constructed on a two-story podium, with the first few floors rising high enough to clear the ramp to the FDR Drive, which sits in front of the building. The tower’s ground-floor retail will be constructed one foot above the floodplain, with flood gates and tanks created to address flooding.
The project is being designed by Perkins-Eastman.
It’s similar to the plan that was rolled out in July, which proposed 741 apartments across a 620,000-square foot, 60-story building. Starrett says 25 percent of the building’s units would be reserved for affordable housing.
In August, the Department of City Planning rejected calls for three large developments in the Two Bridges area to go through the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure (ULURP), which would have extended each project’s approval process. The projects could add 2,700 apartments and over 2 million square feet of space to the neighborhood, larger than the Essex Crossing development.
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http://therealdeal.com/2016/12/14/st...es-skyscraper/
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Other residents chimed in, asking, “Any particular reason it has to be so tall and so big?,” and telling Starrett, “If you really wanted to fit in within this community, you wouldn’t be building a 62-story building.”
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Any reason it has to be tall and so big??? Hmmm, because Manhattan is a village???
Its not like the housing in the area is spectacular. This will only add to the NYHA projects nearby.