New Developments

January 13, 2017

Bronx Commons will bring 305 affordable apartments and a new music venue to the South Bronx

By Dana Schulz

Not only did the Times recently name the South Bronx one of this year's hottest travel destinations, but the up-and-coming 'hood has become a hotbed for new development.
Find out more about the project

January 13, 2017

Third lottery opens at Pacific Park Brooklyn, apply for 303 affordable units from $532/month

By Dana Schulz

Last spring, the first housing lottery opened at Pacific Park Brooklyn when 181 affordable units at SHoP's 461 Dean Street (the world's tallest modular tower) came online.
More details and the whole qualification breakdown

January 12, 2017

Jeanne Gang’s $340M Museum of Natural History expansion gets new interior renderings, details

By Dana Schulz

After the architects at Studio Gang tweaked their proposal for the American Museum of Natural History expansion to preserve more public parkland out front, the Landmarks Preservation Commission unanimously approved the plans in October.
All the renderings and details this way

January 11, 2017

First look at the $30M penthouse at Robert A.M. Stern’s 30 Park Place

By Dana Schulz

The top-floor units at Robert A.M. Stern's 930-foot 30 Park Place have a way of making headlines.
More looks ahead

January 11, 2017

Norman Foster’s 50 Hudson Yards gets $195M in tax breaks from the city

By Dana Schulz

When completed, Related Companies‘ and Oxford Properties Group’s 50 Hudson Yards will be the city's most expensive office building, coming in at $3.94 billion.
Find out more right here

January 10, 2017

Construction update: FXFOWLE’s Circa Central Park nears the finish line

By Dana Schulz

Last we heard from Circa Central Park, the circle-hugging Central Park north condo from architects FXFOWLE and developers Artimus, the lottery had launched for 10 affordable units in the building.
More details ahead

January 9, 2017

Tower 28, Queens’ soon-to-be second-tallest residential building, gets new renderings

By Dana Schulz

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More renderings and details ahead

January 9, 2017

Built in Poland and shipped in pieces, NYC’s biggest modular hotel project is 55 percent complete

By Michelle Cohen

The 20-story, 300-room project at 185 Bowery was constructed in Poland and shipped to New York in 210 pieces. Owned by Dutch hotel developer/operator Citizen M with Brack Capital Real Estate, the high-rise hotel at 185 Bowery is more than half done, reports the Wall Street Journal.
Check out photos of the sealed hotel pods arriving

January 6, 2017

SOM reveals official rendering for American Bible Society-replacing condo-rental tower

By Dana Schulz

In the fall of 2015, the American Bible Society moved from their long-time home at Broadway and 61st Street to Philadelphia. Their Columbus Circle/Lincoln Center headquarters was built in 1965 by architects Roy O. Allen Jr. and Donald C.
Find out more this way

January 6, 2017

New renderings of Court Square City View Tower, Queens’ future tallest building

By Dana Schulz

When plans were originally filed in February 2016, the Long Island City skyscraper since dubbed Court Square City View Tower was set to reach 964 feet. In April, it got bumped up to supertall status at 984 feet, making it Queens' future tallest building.
More details ahead

January 6, 2017

Plans filed for a 21-story Coney Island ‘Dreams’ project on the boardwalk

By Michelle Cohen

Developer John Catsimatidis' Red Apple Group has filed plans for a 21-story tower on a Surf Avenue parcel that he purchased last summer according to Brooklyn Daily; the tower is part of a three-building Coney Island project that will likely include 415 apartments and retail.
Find out more

January 4, 2017

Norman Foster’s 50 Hudson Yards will be city’s most expensive office building at $4B

By Dana Schulz

It's been less than a month since it was revealed that starchitect Norman Foster would be designing the Related Companies' and Oxford Properties Group's 50 Hudson Yards commercial tower, but the developers have already pegged the cost of the project at $3.
Find out more

January 3, 2017

New renderings and details for Rafael Viñoly’s 125 Greenwich Street

By Dana Schulz

Construction at Rafael Viñoly’s slender skyscraper 125 Greenwich Street has reached street level, but as CityRealty uncovered, the tower that was slated to be taller than 1,000 feet over the summer (and previously 1,400 feet), is back down to 898 feet.
More views and details ahead

January 3, 2017

510-foot Rafael Viñoly-designed tower coming to East 62nd Street

By Diane Pham

Lenox Hill will see the addition of a new 510-foot tower at 249 East 62nd Street, designed by none other than 432 Park starchitect Rafael Viñoly.
more details this way

December 30, 2016

Gamma Real Estate files plans for 850-foot tower at long-stalled Sutton Place site

By Dana Schulz

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December 29, 2016

City eyes Gowanus Canal as the next ‘Little Venice’

By Michelle Cohen

Rezoning and the promise of public right-of-way on the west Brooklyn Superfund canal could bring an esplanade like Williamsburg’s, a recreation area and lots of new development.
Find out more about the Gowanus rezoning plans

December 21, 2016

First look at the artsy common spaces of 5Pointz-replacing rental towers

By Dana Schulz

It's been three years since Long Island City's beloved graffiti mecca 5Pointz was whitewashed overnight and a year and a half since renderings first surfaced of the bland 41- and 47-story rental towers that would replace the site at 22-44 Jackson Avenue.
See it all right here

December 16, 2016

Durst Organization pays $173.5M for LIC site once slated for tallest tower in Queens

By Diane Pham

Back in 2015, Property Markets Group and the Hakim Organization announced plans to erect the tallest tower outside of Manhattan in Long Island City at 29-37 41st Avenue.
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December 14, 2016

ODA’s Rheingold Brewery rental will offer 100 affordable units in Bushwick

By Dana Schulz

The day after securing a $93 construction loan, the Rabsky Group has announced that 100 out of the 500 rentals at their massive Rheingold Brewery development will be below-market rate.
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December 14, 2016

Announcing 6sqft’s 2016 Building of the Year!

By 6sqft

You came, you voted, and now it's time to award the title of 2016 Building of the Year to none other than 520 West 28th Street! The undulating beauty along the High Line beat out 11 other game-changing buildings in a fierce two-week competition held right here on 6sqft.
more details on the runners-up

December 14, 2016

New renderings from Albo Liberis offer up two visions for Brooklyn’s next skyscraping office tower

By Michelle Cohen

As the future Brooklyn skyline takes shape, one of the borough's largest office towers-to-be, a 36-story commercial skyscraper, is slated to rise at 625 Fulton Street in Downtown Brooklyn.
Check out the renderings

December 13, 2016

Renderings revealed for 724-foot Lower East Side tower, final piece of controversial site

By Dana Schulz

The historically low-income, low-slung neighborhood of Two Bridges--the area along the East River, near the footings of the Manhattan and Brooklyn Bridges where the Lower East Side meets Chinatown--has become a high-rise hotbed over the past year.
More details and renderings ahead

December 10, 2016

VOTE for 6sqft’s 2016 Building of the Year!

By 6sqft

For new developments, 2015 was the year of reveals, but 2016 was all about watching these buildings reshape our city.
Learn more about each of the buildings in the running here

December 9, 2016

KBA Architects reveal ziggurat-like tower for Kellogg’s Diner-adjacent site in Williamsburg

By Dana Schulz

Back in March, 6sqft reported that a new hotel/rental tower at 500 Metropolitan Avenue had risen above ground, but there was still a bit ambiguity surroundings its final design. Now, just as the Williamsburg building has topped out, CityRealty uncovered the final renderings from KBA Architects.
More views and details

December 8, 2016

NYU reveals design for $1B 23-story building at controversial Greenwich Village site

By Dana Schulz

NYU's controversial plan to replace their Coles Sports Center site at the corner of Mercer and Houston Streets received approvals way back in 2012, but due to community opposition and lawsuits, they only filed plans and began demolition this October.
Lots more renderings and details

December 8, 2016

Norman Foster will design 985-foot tower at 50 Hudson Yards

By Dana Schulz

It's been 14 months since developer Related Companies bought the site of a former McDonald's at 34th Street and 10th Avenue, the final parcel needed to complete Hudson Yards.
Get more details ahead

December 5, 2016

One Vanderbilt confirms 1,020-foot observation deck

By Dana Schulz

It's been almost a year since 6sqft first heard inklings that One Vanderbilt--the city's second tallest tower--would offer a sky-high observation deck, and now that developer SL Green has secured $1.
Find out more

December 5, 2016

As Red Hook’s Norman Foster office complex plans move forward, local residents want more input

By Michelle Cohen

In October 6sqft reported that work on Thor Equities' 7.7-acre waterfront office and retail complex, architect Norman Foster‘s first Brooklyn commission, had begun.
Find out more

December 2, 2016

Richard Meier’s first NYC skyscraper starts its climb above street level in Turtle Bay

By Dana Schulz

Richard Meier's 685 First Avenue--the starchitect's largest and tallest building in the city to date--has begun its above-ground ascent, reports CityRealty.
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November 30, 2016

Jared Kushner will lend $1B to developers over the next five years

By Dana Schulz

When Charles Kushner founded real estate development firm Kushner Companies in 1985, he may have had visions of his son Jared taking over the company (which he did in 2007), but he never could have predicted the role his kin would have in one of the country's most contentious presidential elections.
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November 30, 2016

Designers at ArX Solutions offer their own take on a Waldorf Astoria interior renovation

By Dana Schulz

The final checkout for hotel guests at the iconic Waldorf Astoria is March 1st, after which its new owner, Chinese insurer Anbang Insurance Group, will begin converting the 1,413 hotel rooms into 840 renovated hotel rooms and 321 luxury condos to the tune of $1 billion.
More renderings and details

November 28, 2016

New renderings for COOKFOX’s 700-foot Financial District condo tower 25 Park Row

By Dana Schulz

Over the summer, L+M Development Partners demolished the former Financial District flagship of J&R Music and Computer World to make way for a 54-story, mixed-use condo tower at 25 Park Row, just across from City Hall Park in an area quickly becoming a more vibrant, 24-hour neighborhood.

November 28, 2016

Locals push for Sutton Place rezoning ahead of auction for site of planned 950-foot tower

By Dana Schulz

Despite the fact that the site is headed to the auction block next month, local residents and elected officials are rallying to prevent the possible construction of a 950-foot condo tower on East 58th Street in tony Sutton Place.
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November 23, 2016

Proposed towers could bring 500 apartments to Crown Heights, including 140 affordable units

By Diane Pham

Crown Heights is a neighborhood undergoing rapid change, but the western area south of Eastern Parkway has remained relatively quiet and unaltered by new development. However, it appears that could soon change.
more here

November 21, 2016

Site of planned Norman Foster-designed Sutton Place condo tower to be auctioned off next month

By Michelle Cohen

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November 18, 2016

Renderings revealed for 40-story Coney Island tower, the tallest residential building in South Brooklyn

By Dana Schulz

Robert S. Trump (Donald's much lesser known younger brother) sold Coney Island's Trump Village Shopping Center in the early 2000s to developer Rubin Schron of Cammeby’s International Group, who, in 2014, publicized plans to replace the center with a 40-story mixed-use tower.
More renderings and details

November 18, 2016

Construction update: Pier 55’s 535 concrete columns rise from the Hudson River

By Dana Schulz

Now that the Barry Diller-funded Pier 55 offshore park can proceed freely, the Wall Street Journal took a look at how construction is progressing on the $200 million project. Currently, the 535 concrete columns, each three feet wide and ranging from 70 to 200 feet long, that will support the 2.
More new details this way

November 17, 2016

Richard Meier, Rafael Viñoly, and KPF release designs for Upper West Side waterfront development

By Dana Schulz

Forty-two years after Donald Trump first proposed a mixed-use development on the Upper West Side waterfront, one of the final pieces of the puzzle is coming together.
More details and renderings

November 16, 2016

NYC’s next superblock: Development goes into overdrive along far West 29th Street

By Michelle Sinclair Colman

It is not often that a single block stands out in a city like New York. But a huge transformation is occurring at the junction of 29th Street. West 29th Street, in between 10th and 11th avenues, is the transition point between three neighborhoods: West Chelsea, Hudson Yards and the Far West Side.

November 10, 2016

Studio Seilern designs boxy, mixed-use tower for West Chelsea’s ‘starchitects row’

By Dana Schulz

The stretch of Eleventh Avenue that winds through Chelsea in the 20s has become a hotbed of starchitecture activity ever since plans were announced for the High Line.
More renderings and details this way

November 9, 2016

Historic church near Penn Station to be converted to modern retail space

By Dana Schulz

The Church of St. John the Baptist, located at 213 West 30th Street between 7th and 8th Avenues, has stood in Midtown since 1872. Designed in the French Gothic-style by architect Napoleon LeBrun, it first served New York City's German population and was later assumed by the Capuchin Friars.
More details ahead

November 9, 2016

Target opening a store in new Hell’s Kitchen condo

By Dana Schulz

Over the summer, Chinese developer Xinyuan Real Estate filed plans to build a seven-story, 105,305- square-foot condominium at 615 Tenth Avenue in Hell's Kitchen, their second NYC project after the Oosten in Williamsburg.
More details

November 9, 2016

Soori High Line penthouse with its own private pool hits the market for $22.5M

By Emily Nonko

The new Chelsea condo Soori High Line, at 522 West 29th Street, has made headlines for apartments that come with their own private pools. And now one of the building's most luxurious condos has hit the market—a penthouse triplex asking $22.5 million.
Take a look

November 8, 2016

Even more pricey condos are coming to Billionaires’ Row

By Diane Pham

Back in September, there were murmurs that the Feil Organization had plans to convert a 57th Street office building into residences. As it turns out, Billionaires' Row will indeed soon find itself with another 34 high-end condos in tow.
more details here

November 7, 2016

Interior renderings, more details revealed for Richard Meier’s Turtle Bay tower

By Dana Schulz

The largest and tallest building in NYC from Pritzker Prize-winning architect Richard Meier is rising at 685 First Avenue, just south of the United Nations at 39th Street and First Avenue along the East River.
More details and renderings this way

November 3, 2016

Apple will open second Brooklyn store at 300 Ashland Place

By Dana Schulz

Apple opened its first Brooklyn store on Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg over the summer, which many felt was the final nail in the coffin of the neighborhood's gentrification.
More details ahead

November 2, 2016

Sales launch for Extell’s Lower East Side tower One Manhattan Square

By Dana Schulz

Despite community opposition against the surge of new development in the Two Bridges neighborhood, things are moving full steam ahead in the Chinatown-meets-Lower East Side area.
Find out more this way

November 1, 2016

New renderings revealed for Essex Crossing’s 150,000 square-foot mega-market

By Michelle Cohen

The Essex Crossing megaproject is taking shape in the Lower East Side, most notably with the Market Line, the 150,000 square-foot retail area serving the project's buildings.
More renderings this way

October 31, 2016

Interior and amenity renderings revealed for Hub, Brooklyn’s tallest tower

By Dana Schulz

For now, Downtown Brooklyn's Hub holds the title of tallest building in Brooklyn.
More details and renderings

October 28, 2016

Domino Sugar Factory reveals renderings of creative office building The Refinery

By Dana Schulz

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More details and renderings ahead

October 27, 2016

Former juvenile jail in Hunts Point will be replaced with $300M mixed-use affordable housing complex

By Dana Schulz

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October 27, 2016

Bjarke Ingels’ curving East Harlem rental breaks ground and gets new renderings

By Dana Schulz

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More details and renderings and the first view inside

October 24, 2016

Trinity Church reveals plans for $300M Pelli Clarke Pelli-designed tower to rise behind historic church

By Dana Schulz

Trinity Church Wall Street was built in 1846 by Richard Upjohn and is considered one of the first and best examples of Neo-Gothic architecture in the entire country.
More details ahead

October 20, 2016

Jean Nouvel’s MoMA Tower is getting the first of its intricate, diagrid skin

By Dana Schulz

News at starchitect Jean Nouvel's condominium MoMA Tower (officially called 53W53) has been relatively quiet since units hit the market just over a year ago.
More details and views this way

October 20, 2016

Listings go live for Extell’s amenity-filled Hudson Yards Skyscraper 555Ten

By Dana Schulz

After launching its affordable housing lottery for 120 below-market rate units back in May, 555Ten has revealed pricing for its 478 market-rate rentals, ranging from $3,150/month studios to $6,250/month two-bedrooms.
Find out more here and get a first look at the model units

October 19, 2016

Work begins on Norman Foster’s Red Hook office project, will be the continent’s largest timber structure

By Dana Schulz

After revealing plans in June for Norman Foster's first commission in Brooklyn, Thor Equities now announces that work has commenced on Red Hoek Point, the 7.7-acre waterfront office campus.
More details ahead

October 19, 2016

Listings go live at 15 Hudson Yards, the development’s first residential building

By Dana Schulz

In anticipation of its sales launch, 15 Hudson Yards released a slew of new renderings last month, showcasing "new views of the bundled quad of cylinders that make up its body, as well as its rectilinear base that will abut the Shed," as 6sqft reported.
Find out more and see renderings and floorplans

October 18, 2016

SL Green breaks ground on One Vanderbilt, NYC’s second tallest tower – see new renderings

By Diane Pham

Yesterday 6sqft brought you a time-lapse video showing an entire Midtown block being demolished to make way for the 1,401-foot supertall One Vanderbilt. Now with a cleared site—plus $1.
see more here

October 17, 2016

Watch the time-lapse demolition of an entire Midtown block for supertall One Vanderbilt

By Michelle Cohen

6sqft recently reported that One Vanderbilt, developer SL Green's new Midtown supertall, has secured $1.
Watch an entire block of pre-war buildings disappear

October 14, 2016

Renderings revealed for High Line-adjacent condo on hot West Chelsea block

By Dana Schulz

West 29th Street between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues is quickly becoming to Chelsea what Bond Street is to Noho--a delightfully concentrated mishmash of high-profile architecture projects.
More news related to the project ahead

October 12, 2016

Construction update: Excavation underway for Annabelle Selldorf’s Bowlmor Lanes-replacing condos

By Ondel Hylton

William Macklowe Company's 22-story 21 East 12th Street (21E12) is poised to become the tallest ground-up condominium building in Greenwich Village upon completion in 2018.
Find out more here

October 12, 2016

New Renderings of Rogers Partners’ residence above historic Lower East Side bank building

By Dana Schulz

At the end of last year, preservationists called on the city to landmark the Lower East Side's 1912 former bank building at the prominent corner of East Houston and Ludlow Streets. The request came after the owners revealed plans to construct a residential structure above the historic building.
Find out more

October 10, 2016

New renderings revealed for Richard Rogers’ glassy ‘Pearl on the Park’ at One Beekman

By Michelle Cohen

CityRealty.com offers new renderings via Urban Muse that reveal architect Richard Rogers' 25-story mixed-use Financial District residential development, One Beekman at 1 Beekman Street.
See the renderings

October 7, 2016

Construction update: Soori High Line’s soaring ceilings and private, heated pools take shape

By Ondel Hylton

Soo K. Chan, founder of Singapore-based firm SCDA Architects, says "good architecture should move the human spirit.
See all the renderings and construction shots this way

October 7, 2016

ODA reveals renderings of Long Island City condo with inner courtyards

By Dana Schulz

ODA Architects have been on a roll across the city over the past couple years, marking their territory with their cantilevering cube-itecture.
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October 6, 2016

New renderings and hotel details for Bjarke Ingels’ High Line towers, now dubbed ‘The Eleventh’

By Dana Schulz

In a press release announcing that HFZ Capital Group is bringing a 137-key luxury Six Senses hotel and spa to Bjarke Ingels' pair of travertine-and-bronze towers along the High Line, 6sqft has learned that the $1.9 billion project at 76 Eleventh Avenue will officially be known as The Eleventh.
More new views and details ahead

September 30, 2016

Tishman Speyer officially files plans for Bjarke Ingels’ $3.2B Hudson Yards tower

By Dana Schulz

Developer Tishman Speyer has officially filed plans with the Department of Buildings for Bjarke Ingels' Hudson Yards tower The Spiral at 509 West 34th Street. As reported by The Real Deal, the filing confirms that the office tower will rise 65 stories and 1,005 feet and encompass 2.
More details ahead

September 29, 2016

Skyline-altering tower to rise 928 feet along Fifth Avenue in Nomad

By Katy Cornell

A near supertall skyscraper is coming to Nomad, according to a recent Department of Buildings filing for 262 Fifth Avenue.

September 29, 2016

New renderings for JDS and SHoP’s 1,000-foot Lower East Side supertall

By Dana Schulz

Last 6sqft checked on the rental building at 247 Cherry Street in the Two Bridges area of the Lower East Side, it was revealed that the tower would rise to 1,000 feet, not surprising considering it comes from the supertall power team of JDS Development and SHoP Architects.
Check out all the new views

September 28, 2016

$1.5B in construction financing secured for Midtown supertall One Vanderbilt

By Diane Pham

It's full steam ahead for SL Green's new Midtown supertall, One Vanderbilt. Early this morning the developer announced it had closed on $1.5 billion in financing for its 1,401-foot, full-block office tower slated to rise directly adjacent to Grand Central Terminal.
find out more here

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