The nether-regions between Midtown and the booming NoMad corridor have been sprouting large apartment towers in recent years, defined by overtly glassy product like 170 Madison Avenue. But now, on the corner of 33rd Street and Fifth…
Normally, when a tall hotel rises on a 33-foot-wide lot in Midtown, the result is a distinctly unappealing budget hotel designed by Peter Poon or Gene Kaufman. But in Midtown East, where room rates are…
Back in January, Crain’s New York featured an article on “the baron of bland buildings,” aka Gene Kaufman. In the piece, the architect can be seen next to two different building models, one of which YIMBY has…
252 East 57th Street’s evolution has taken nearly a decade, but the condominium tower is finally on its way out of the ground. Interiors and close-up shots of the tower were posted alongside its new…
Back in September, YIMBY covered the first drawings posted for the revival of 172 Madison Avenue, a long-stalled site in Midtown on the northwest corner of Madison and 33rd Street. In the years since plans were initially…
