Demolition Continues on Site of Fifth Billionaires’ Row Supertall at 41-47 West 57th Street in Midtown, Manhattan

Rendering of 41-47 West 57th Street by OMARendering of 41-47 West 57th Street by OMA

Demolition is getting underway at 37 West 57th Street, the latest addition to the assemblage of 41-47 West 57th Street in Midtown, Manhattan that is planned to give rise to a 63-story mixed-use supertall skyscraper. Developer Sedesco acquired the 13-story office building in 2023, adding to its expanding swath of contiguous properties for its 1,100-foot tower, which is being designed by OMA. The Billionaires’ Row structure is slated to yield 119 condominium units with an average scope of 1,992 square feet, as well as a 158-room hotel and a 10,212-square-foot restaurant. The property is located between Fifth and Sixth Avenues with frontage on both West 57th and West 58th Streets.

Recent photos show the southern face of the Class B office building covered in scaffolding and netting as crews begin to gut the interiors. A column of windows on the western lot line wall was removed and boarded up where the construction hoist will be anchored. Sedesco purchased the structure for $77.5 million in early 2023 in a deal brokered by Hodges Ward Elliott. The addition of 37 West 57th Street to 41-47 West 57th Street will add 87,855 square feet to the new supertall, which was already planned to span 453,200 square feet.

Photo by Michael Young

Photo by Michael Young

Photo by Michael Young

Photo by Michael Young

Photo by Michael Young

Photo by Michael Young

Photo by Michael Young

Photo by Michael Young

The below photo shows the beginning of the hoist’s construction.

Photo by Michael Young

Meanwhile, some progress has occurred on the cleared plot at 41-47 West 57th Street, which sat overgrown and idle at the time of our last update during our Turkey Week rundown of stalled projects in late November. An excavator is currently cleaning up some scraps of debris, and some portions of the perimeter have been minimally unearthed. Full excavation work will likely not get underway until demolition finishes at 37 West 57th Street.

Photo by Michael Young

Photo by Michael Young

Photo by Michael Young

Photo by Michael Young

Photo by Michael Young

Photo by Michael Young

Photo by Michael Young

Photo by Michael Young

The rendering in the main photo depicts 41-47 West 57th Street looking southwest, previewing its position among the line of residential supertalls along Billionaires’ Row. The skyscraper’s northern elevation features a straight, gradual taper from its base to its flat parapet, creating a complementary impression to the curving setbacks on the southern face of its adjacent supertall neighbor at 111 West 57th Street. The tower is shown enclosed in a glass curtain wall on its Central Park-facing northern profile, while the eastern side is composed of concrete with a recessed glass cutout at its center that follows the building’s angular form to a sharp point just below its summit.

The hotel is planned to occupy 205,100 square feet on floors two through 20, followed by the residential component above.

Sedesco was granted a 20 percent increase to the scope of its skyscraper in exchange for improvements to the 57th Street subway station along Sixth Avenue. Specifically, the developer has committed to building two ADA-compliant elevators as part of the Zoning For Accessibility program. Plans for the improvements were approved by the City Planning Commission on December 1, 2021. One elevator will be located at the southwestern corner of West 56th Street and Sixth Avenue, and the second will connect the underground mezzanine to the platform.

Below is a street-level rendering of the proposed transit accessibility improvements at the corner of West 56th Street and Sixth Avenue. The public initiative will also include the construction of an elevator machine room, new communications equipment, a reconfiguration of the turnstiles to accommodate the second elevator below street level, and $9.83 million to cover future maintenance costs. Work on the infrastructure upgrade has yet to commence.

Rendering by Sedesco.

A construction timeline for 41-47 West 57th Street has yet to be announced.

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46 Comments on "Demolition Continues on Site of Fifth Billionaires’ Row Supertall at 41-47 West 57th Street in Midtown, Manhattan"

  1. loathsome ugly buildings the Super Rich giving the finger to the rest of NYC.

  2. Another shadow, and with the street improvement, what changes have you made

    • Yay, shadows! Love it so much!

    • Yup. More shadows on Central Park. Not good for the Park’s ambiance around the lake.

      • “Not good for the parks ambience around the lake,” yet the southern half of Central Park is always the most popular part of the green space with the [growing] number of tourists that are not bothered by the shadows, Tourists and local visitors alike continue to keep flocking to Central Park and New York City every year in record numbers…

        Give me a break with that stupid NIMBY shadow argument. It hasn’t killed the life of Central Park no more than the fact it hasn’t killed a single tree from a lack of sunlight 🙄

        • The shadow phobia in this town is some weird stuff.

          Sometimes it makes sense like the concern at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, but most times it’s this strange lack of understanding that anywhere you guy there is usually some object there that casts a shadow. And sometimes, just sometimes, it moves and doesn’t last all day. Weird.

      • Michael C. Scalia | January 22, 2025 at 5:57 pm | Reply

        Ken and George, planet earth is able to rotate and is responsible for diffenet shadow positions whenever you see the sun.

        The more you know! 🌠

    • That shadow argument doesn’t hold up at all. Since when are shadows permanent and fixated in one place?

    • Yes, let us see people wither and wilt away in the five minutes of thin shadow lines before it moves away and the sun comes back

    • That’s not how shadows work. The further from the object casting the shadow the more diffuse it is.

  3. looks like another great improvement for our city!
    Lots of jobs, construction and Hotel workers

  4. Please keep that beautiful little 35 W. 57th Street !

    • I think Soloviev Group purchased it a while ago and will eventually come down

      • How sure are you about this Steven? One would think if they owned 37 they would just raze them both at the same time…

        That seems logical doesn’t it?

        • Yeah I remember reading about it several years ago when the first demolition permits were filed like a year after Sheldon Solow’s death.

    • David in Bushwick | January 22, 2025 at 10:55 am | Reply

      That house was built for one of the Vanderbilt children. It’s a terrible shame to lose it. But the wealthy continue to destroy the world.

    • Yeah this makes me pretty mad. They could incorporate it into the build and it would be something that made it really special. But no, turn it to dust.

      Neanderthals.

  5. Hopefully excavation and construction quickly starts after they finish demolishing 37 west 57th Street. It looks so depressing walking by and seeing such a big empty open space

  6. Yes, What’s happening to beautiful little 35 W. 57th Street? Have they sold the air-rights…only to be totally encased in the new structure?

  7. 20% increase in exchange of 2 elevators? That’s crazy…

  8. Nice rendering of how the building is like the opposite of 111 West 57th Street

  9. This will actually be the 7th (not the 5th) “Billionaire’s Row” building, as there are already five in the lede photo, and that doesn’t include 220 Central Park South, which is considered a “billionaire supertall” (in fact, the pre-eminent one, according to Katherine Clarke’s must-read book, “Billionaire’s Row”).

    So now we will have yet another building for billionaires to “park” their money (they rarely if ever actually LIVE in those buildings; they are for investment – and tax evasion – purposes) and cast more shadows on Central Park. Oh goodie!

    • Fifth SUPERTALL on billionaires row, as it’s clearly stated in the title. It’s not counting other residential towers below the supertall threshold like 220 Central Park South.

      And no, the shadow argument is invalid once again and egregiously pointless. That didn’t stop the American Radiator Building being built next to Bryant Park, or the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company building being built next to Madison Square Park, or the Plaza Hotel next to Central Park. 🤦‍♂️

      Where’s the outrage for those buildings casting shows over those nyc parks huh?

  10. What hotel is going in?

  11. This may sound dumb but why not build in the empty lot directly adjacent from the old building?

    • From the real estate exam…

      Assemblage:

      “Assemblage” is a term in real estate that means bringing together several smaller pieces of land to create one larger piece. When you do this, the combined value of the land might be worth more than the individual pieces separately, because it can be used for bigger projects or developments.

      Example:

      Imagine that four neighbors each own a small piece of land next to each other. A developer wants to build a shopping center, but they need more space than any one of the small pieces can provide. The developer offers to buy all four pieces of land and combine them to create the larger piece needed for the shopping center. This is an example of assemblage.

  12. No one lives in the other Millionaire’s Row sexual identity-confused edifices. Who’s going to live in this one?

  13. Can’t wait to see the next supertall on Billionaire’s Row go up! This, plus whatever Soloviev puts up directly next door, and their other project next to the Aman New York. Exciting times in the years to come!!!

  14. Billionaire’s row rules ! I lived on the 99th floor for a month. Cost me a buck. Great stuff

  15. Who’s going to live there? The Shadow knows

  16. What makes me most hopeful about the rendering is the image of the Essex house where I live. It is showing the building without the scaffolding that we have been dealing with for almost 5 years. Hopefully within the next five years, it will indeed be down.

  17. Trillionaires Row will float above the Reservoir in Central Park.

  18. Great. Another vast vacant lot in supposedly priceless midtown Manhattan. Short-sighted , greedy developers demolish then wait for “the right time for groundup” development as Vornado’s Steve Roth declared as he was demolishing the vast Hotel Pennsylvania which is and will be another block-wide vacant lot for untold years.

  19. Jimbo Jones 3rd 2.0 | January 23, 2025 at 11:14 am | Reply

    Another splinter tower growing upwards like a weed on billionaires row

  20. Everyone is commenting on a building that no renderings of were shown in the article. Interesting to read the feedback against something that is yet to exist. Complain about it once it is built, than, let it ruin everyones lives that hate it.

    • It’s literally right in the center of the cover photo above the Plaza Hotel!! If you’ve been following this project you’d recognize that rendering right away

      And it’s “then,” not “than” genius.

  21. The deal should be for large projects in nyc. Give us public space or s little affordable apartments And we will give you something ( more height etc). Take it or leave it… believe me they’ll take it,or the next devrr we lover will

  22. Considering it the other ones have many units that are unsold because of structural issues I hope this crowd went back to the drawing board and is reconsidering many of its original proposals otherwise they’re going to be stuck with a white elephant

  23. David : Sent From Heaven. | January 24, 2025 at 3:23 am | Reply

    Just make it higher than the roof of a bus, to residents were also pleased with the window structure. Which is at the same level as a falcon flies: Thanks.

  24. Fits very nicely with the other supertalls, making for a more cohesive skyline. The elemental geometry is almost classic in form. I look forward to its completion.

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