NEW YORK | Museums - expansions

[NYguy]

https://nypost.com/2023/07/17/car-fa...-in-manhattan/

Car fanatics seek parking spot for automobile museum in Manhattan


By Steve Cuozzo
July 17, 2023

Manhattan has museums devoted to art, dinosaurs, sex, mathematics, Swedish photography and tenements — but is the car-hating borough ready for a museum celebrating the “past, present and future of the automobile?”

That’s the dream of a group of auto-industry luminaries led by Otto F. Wachs, a retired Volkswagen executive who created Autostadt in Wolfsburg, Germany, which is said to be the “world’s largest super-destination automotive museum” with over 2 million annual visitors.

Board members include Ray Battaglini, founder of the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Ky., and Formula 1 Club director Christian Ginet.

The team tapped powerhouse Big Apple dealmakers JLL to find a location and “landlord partner” for the New York Auto Museum (NYAM), a proposed, 200,000 square-foot attraction in central Manhattan.

Charles Gerace, who recently arranged the 70,000 square-foot short-term lease for the popular immersive Van Gogh exhibition at Pier 36, will spearhead the quest.

“As the global office market undergoes a transformational shift, the museum presents an opportunity to repurpose space,” Gerace said. “New York Auto Museum will offer the type of tangible enjoyment that has been enthusiastically embraced since the pandemic upended our lives.”

It might sound far-fetched — but developers and landlords are scrambling for alternative kinds of large tenants to kick-start new projects and fill existing ones. Plus, a big car museum wouldn’t face the competitive political nightmare that casino bids are undergoing.

Gerace said the museum might be most appropriate in the Times Square or Herald Square areas but no part of Manhattan is off-limits. He said it would require a new or existing building with floor plates of at least 30,000 square feet to be viable.

Potential sites include proposed Midtown supertalls for which developers are seeking anchor tenants, as well as downtown former warehouse properties that are ripe for “adaptive reuses.”

As well as exhibitions of classic cars and technological developments, the museum would also include nonprofit components — which could be helpful to a developer seeking city approval for a size variance or zoning change.

NYAM executive director David Senater said the nonprofit unit would offer low-cost tickets worth $30 million a year to the Department of Education.

[Busy Bee]

This is a good thing. I don't want to hear any complaining about how there shouldn't be a car museum in the heart of urban Manhattan and how that's like a water museum in the desert or something. Cars are everywhere. Cars like it or not are central to our history. A museum like this will attract gobs of people and I'm sure the exhibits will be impressive and educational even if you aren't a particular enthusiast.

[BuildThemTaller]

A wing dedicated to taxis would make sense.

[Busy Bee]

Originally Posted by BuildThemTaller

A wing dedicated to taxis would make sense.

This is an excellent idea. Most if not all models from the pre-yellow and yellow cab era including an emphasis on Checker and iconic taxi imagery in film and TV... think Taxi Driver, Taxi, etc. etc. That could almost be a museum by itself.

[NYguy]

Originally Posted by Busy Bee

This is a good thing. I don't want to hear any complaining about how there shouldn't be a car museum in the heart of urban Manhattan and how that's like a water museum in the desert or something. Cars are everywhere. Cars like it or not are central to our history. A museum like this will attract gobs of people and I'm sure the exhibits will be impressive and educational even if you aren't a particular enthusiast.

New York is where most of the cars were at the beginning of the age. It's fitting. Too bad the Chrysler Building won't have the space needed.

[NYguy]

I visited the hip hop museum at it's current location (not far from here), so will be excited to see its permanent home open.


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New Renderings Revealed For Children’s Museum Of Manhattan At 361 Central Park West On Manhattan’s Upper West Side

New renderings have been revealed for Children’s Museum of Manhattan at 361 Central Park West on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Designed by FXCollaborative, the $300 million project involves the repurposing of a century-old church overlooking Central Park, and will yield 80,000 square feet of exhibit space across seven stories, more than doubling the visitor capacity of its current location on West 83rd Street. The property is located at the corner of West 96th Street and Central Park West.

The expansion plans to feature new exhibitions and experiences aimed at children from infants to ten years old. In addition, the new space will enable CMOM to enhance its partnerships with various city organizations, including shelters, Head Start programs, settlement houses, hospitals, and the Department of Correction.

“Every child deserves access to amazing cultural institutions, and since 1973 the Children’s Museum of Manhattan has provided young New Yorkers and their families with remarkable cultural programming that helps their imaginations to grow and their creativity to flourish,” said NYC cultural affairs commissioner Laurie Cumbo. “This state-of-the-art new home will mark a new chapter for the museum and give them the capacity to engage more young people from across the city with the incredible benefits of the arts.”

The museum is expected to open in 2028.

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