Architecture

19 and 30 Park Place

Construction Updates: 30 and 19 Park Place

At the bottom of Tribeca, on opposite sides of Park Place, two very different buildings continue to rise. The first is Silverstein’s 30 Park Place, designed by Robert A.M. Stern, which will eventually stand 67 stories and 937 feet. The…

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42-14 Crescent Street

Revealed: 42-14 Crescent Street

Development in Long Island City’s Court Square area has been somewhat patchy, with dense buildings sprouting on blocks of low-slung warehouses. Crescent Street has been the exception, with the stretch just north of the Queensboro Bridge filling out,…

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42-44 West 29th Street

Revealed: 42-44 West 29th Street

Another day, another cheap hotel going up on the West Side. Today’s street wall-wrecker sits at 42-44 West 29th Street, wedged in between two pre-war loft buildings on a block where retail mostly caters to wholesale clothing…

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38-55 11th Street

Permits Filed: 38-51 & 38-55 11th Street

While Court Square and Hunters Point are undergoing a building boom due to their residential rezoning during the 2000s, the area north of the Queensboro Bridge — formerly called Ravenswood, now considered southern Astoria — is also seeing…

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