New Rendering Revealed For 2,000-Unit Residential Skyscraper At 100 Gold Street in Financial District, Manhattan

Rendering courtesy of FXCollabortive.

A new rendering has been revealed for 100 Gold Street, a proposed residential skyscraper in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan. Designed by FXCollaborative, the structure is planned to yield 2,000 apartments and will replace a nine-story office building from the 1960s that houses several city agency headquarters. The rendering was revealed in Mayor Eric Adams’ State of the City address last Thursday, as part of his “Manhattan Plan” initiative to bring 100,000 new housing units to the borough over the next ten years. The site is bound by Frankfort Street to the north, Spruce Street to the south and east, and Gold Street to the west.

No details have been revealed regarding 100 Gold Street’s architectural height or floor count. Based on the rendering, the structure appears on par with the 891-foot pinnacle of Frank Gehry’s nearby skyscraper at 8 Spruce Street. The building will begin with a multistory podium topped with a large landscaped terrace, followed by the main tower in a U-shaped configuration interspersed with multiple setbacks. Several of the shallower setbacks feature cutouts in the exterior lined with double-height perimeter columns framing terraces. The skyscraper culminates in two bulkheads, the taller of which will rise on the western end of the property. New tree-lined sidewalks will surround the base of the building.

The city purchased the structure currently occupying 100 Gold Street for $37 million in 1993 from Travelers Insurance Company, and the building will likely be fully demolished for the project. The Department of Citywide Administrative Services is planning to use proceeds from the redevelopment for either leasing or purchasing new office space for the city agencies and senior center currently housed in the existing building.

If built to the scale previewed in the rendering, 100 Gold Street will stand as one of the tallest residential skyscrapers in the Financial District, along with 125 Greenwich Street, 30 Park Place, and 130 William Street.

The nearest subways from the site are the J and Z trains at the Chambers Street station beneath the Manhattan Municipal Building, the R and W trains at the City Hall station along Broadway, and the A, C, J, Z, 2, 3, 4, and 5 trains at the various Fulton Street stations to the south.

Further details about the development and construction of 100 Gold Street have yet to be announced.

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55 Comments on "New Rendering Revealed For 2,000-Unit Residential Skyscraper At 100 Gold Street in Financial District, Manhattan"

  1. 1 lower your height, 2 remember that this city is sinking

  2. Finally, City Hall is doing what it keeps telling the private sector to do-create more housing on the cities’ most limited resource,land. I’ll add this high rise is located in an area with the appropriate subsoil and involves demolishing a much smaller architecturally undistinguished non historic structure. Make it happen !

  3. Wondering how all these new downtown super-talls will maintain their foundation integrity.

  4. Manhattan is doing what’s it’s always done….. just please please always include affordable housing as variety is the spice of life

  5. Looks nice.

  6. Ermahgerd runhrnderd grerd

  7. This was a Robert Moses building on a superblock he created that’s mostly devoted to Southbridge Towers. He built it with a huge footprint and a central core that’s reinforced because it was devoted to the printing industry that was relocated from other downtown areas subject to urban renewal.
    When the printing industry faded Bache Halsey bought it and when it got caught fobbing limited partnerships off on middle class retirees it went to Travelers who unloaded it for next to nothing to the City. The great advantage to the City workers there is they took the building office furniture intact. Easily the nicest offices in municipal government.

    This is a true no brainer, the footprint is huge and the bedrock will easily support the project.

  8. Cheesemaster200 | January 13, 2025 at 10:04 am | Reply

    This is what the City needs to be doing: using their extensive real estate portfolio to force the development of large quantities of residential units. They continue to own the land, and rent it out to private developer in perpetuity so long as thy keep the units relatively affordable. The developer wins because they don’t have to incur the extensive land costs, the city wins because they don’t have to manage or be in any way responsible for the building (read: NYCHA), and the public wins because we get more housing.

    The MTA should do the same. One of the reasons the MTR in Hong Kong is so successful is because they leverage their real estate holdings near stations. There is no reason why we can’t do that here.

    • “The MTA should do the same. One of the reasons the MTR in Hong Kong is so successful is because they leverage their real estate holdings near stations. There is no reason why we can’t do that here.”

      The fact MTA doesn’t just inherently understand this is just another entry on the long list of things fundamentally wrong with that agency.

  9. Activate the Southbridge Towers gang! It’s too big, it’s too tall, it will block the sun and destroy the character of the (historic) neighborhood.

    • Sheryl McArthur | January 13, 2025 at 11:46 am | Reply

      Block the sun? Since when does the sun rise in the north? You need to learn how to read a map better and orient yourself because you sound so lost

      Southbridge Towers will be the one blocking the sunlight on the lower floors of 100 Gold Street.

    • Ain’t nothing historic about a building that was built through Robert Moses’ horrific urban renewal plans. It’s about time to see a part of his legacy die and be replaced by a building that will actually help the housing crisis

    • well they got the howard hughes site in the seaport on pearl reduced, so let’s see what kind of beatdown they can do on this one. ha.

      • Pearl street is in a historic district, this is not. Plus, this tower in near others the same height, so it shouldn’t be an issue at all.

        • There is nothing historical on the block of the HH site and the block should have never been included in the historic district. The misuse of historical districts by NIMBY’s who hijack historical preservation as a tool to control and limit development on non-historical sites undercuts the foundation and credibility of real historic preservation.

    • Michael J. Porter | January 13, 2025 at 10:06 pm | Reply

      UWO, if anything, Southbridge Towers did more to destroy the neighborhood with ugly its architecture, subpar housing, and killing the street life in and around it. Not to mention the ramps added to the Brooklyn bridge that forced the demolition of many historic buildings on Newspaper Row.

      100 Gold Street would be a great addition to the skyline and create much needed housing for the 21st century.

      And learn where the sun rises and sets in the sky. Your sense of orientation is so off…

    • There is as much logic in UWO’s abhorrent statement as there is in someone explaining the earth is flat.

  10. Cameron Tancrede | January 13, 2025 at 10:27 am | Reply

    Great project but needs to be Marte-proofed. He’s one of the worst NIMBYs on the council

  11. Looks like a ‘Gold’ mine..

  12. David fo Flushing | January 13, 2025 at 11:22 am | Reply

    We need affordable housing on Gold Street.

  13. D. D. Doernberg | January 13, 2025 at 11:40 am | Reply

    As water will rise… climate catastrophe as lower Manhattan has no sea-wall barriers yet – yeesh

  14. Build big NYC!

  15. Okay, this is amazing and I’ve been hoping the city redevelops that underutilized building for two decades! Here’s how to make it better:
    1. Do a swap with Pace and move them into the lower floors of the building (dorms as well). Then redevelop the Pace site with a tower just as big. Win-win, Pace gets brand new facilities, and Lower Manhattan gets thousands of new units.
    2. Ensure the entire base has retail in it to activate that street.

    I love all the comments about Lower Manhattan sinking…you know they built the tallest tower in the world on sand right? Also as for light, the historic neighborhood is to the East and South of this building, it’s going to cast shadows on the bridge…

    There’s enough City owned/leased office space that they could move all these employees within the next two months, START DEMO now!!

    • The redevelopment of Pace is only a matter of time. Likely not with this project but I can see Pace teaming up with a private developer and doing exactly that… academic facilities on the lower 10-12 floors and all residential above.

      The day I see that awful Pace campus bite it will be a glorious day.

      • agreed, i just wonder why mayor mcswagger didn’t work something out with pace for this project?

        • Because while the team at HPD and DCP is good, they’re just not willing to add any complications to projects even if the pay if is huge. It’s very Moses thinking, no I won’t shift a highway by a block as that might derail the whole thing.

          Look what happened with the Two Trees Building on Flatbush. They’re still waiting to finish the Arts component nearly a decade after the building was open!

    • Yes, the Pace building needs to be replaced with something that anchors the site like the Manhattan Borough Hall across the bridge and hopefully finishes the line of towers along Park Row, and reopens a pedestrian walkway/plaza extending William Street to Park Row/Frankfort St.

  16. wow 101 Gold Street is done?! Dare I see it’s not a bad building for its era (so much worse) .

    But, yes lets build bigger and better

    and Yes Marte is a woke extremist development hater unless its to build NYCHA projects which aint happening

    Downtown Manhattan wake up and vole him out.

  17. The Pace University dorms are still there! Back in the 1980’s I lived on campus on the 15th floor facing the bridge, and had a front row seat to all the crashes on the Brooklyn Bridge entrance ramps which, during the winter would ice up and become a demolition derby!

  18. Olivier Fontenelle | January 13, 2025 at 4:36 pm | Reply

    Easy to hate on Eric Adams BUT he’s also doing a good job on arguably the most important issue in NYC. Now deliver the units!

  19. Make it happen!

  20. David : Sent From Heaven. | January 14, 2025 at 2:17 am | Reply

    Put the power cord into the ground, they will build the tallest building. As far as residents looked down that they couldn’t see the drain cover: Thanks to Michael Young.

  21. Michael Charley | January 14, 2025 at 4:28 am | Reply

    This project based on the first impressions of written assertions and submitted architectural rendering punches above its weight class. At this time IMHO this project should be expedited.

  22. Probably will get a height chop but i hope there is a good chunk at least of affordable units.

  23. The city needs way more of this. Very large buildings, citywide. So much of the stuff going up these days is tiny compared to the stuff that went up even during the Mitchell-Lama era.

  24. Walked by yesterday. The site is really part of the misguided superblock failed urban renewal ideas of the 60s and 70s. If Southbridge NIMBYS where upset about the Howard Hughes Seaport site, they gonna go nuclear with this one! Of course, it’s ironic that their Mitchell lama housing (now free market) with its cold windswept courtyard and sad looking buildings (free market folks – do something – your project looks like a Project.) will fight because of views (!). They still have an empty store in said plaza with all their wacko NIMBY hate with literallly pics of the “demon” Hughes company that is building on a parking lot , a parking lot !
    and of course Marte foolishly backed these entitled few.

    Build this tower and with market rate tenants – taxpayers should not have to pay for this (and that includes tax abatements, while other housing has to pay ever rising full taxes).

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