NEW YORK | HDSN (418 11th Ave) | FT | 70 & 40 FLOORS

[mrnyc]

^ this is all terrific news, only that if they are going to skywalk from a new hilton to the javits it better be a helluva well thought out and iconically designed skywalk because generally those are eyesores.

[NYguy]

Who knows. They won’t even release conceptual renderings of it. But I suspect its meant to replace the underground passage that was located here, as well as make the hotel a direct appendage of the convention center.

[Busy Bee]

Why do a visually invasive skywalk when the fact this section of 11 Av is actually a viaduct makes a new underground concourse easily buildable? So stupid.

[NYguy]

This whole development is stupid, when you consider what could have been, and the fact that the much larger former truck marshalling yards, which could hold much more housing - affordable and otherwise - sits vacant, with no clear plans to move forward on anything. But maybe they just want to tie it into the Javits visually. It’s not really a huge hotel, though something is better than nothing. But I remember when Gary Barnett proposed a 980 ft hotel on this site, long before the Affirmation Tower or any other proposal.