Current Status: Under Construction
111 West 57th Vital Stats
Address: 111 West 57th Street (Community Board 8)
Type: Residential and Mixed Commercial (Based on Warren and Wetmore Landmark)
Name: 111 West 57th Street aka Steinway Tower aka Stairway to Heaven aka 105 West 57th Street aka 107 West 57th Street
Construction: Begun 2014; Completed early 2019
Design Architect: SHoP Architects
Executive Architect: __
Developer: JDS Development Group with Property Markets Group
Builder: __
Height: 1,438 feet, (438 Meters); 82 Stories
Total Construction Floor Area: 315,996 square feet; 29,357 square meters
Site Area: 20,621 square feet; 1,915.8 square meters
Density: 58 residential units
View Zoning Diagram HERE
Superlatives: Expected to be the thinnest skyscraper worldwide with a 1:23 or 1:24 width-to-height ratio; Constructed with the tallest freestanding crane in NYC Construction history (220 feet, 67m).
Loopholes Exploited:
Read through our blog below for more information on Supertalls.
THE GUARDIAN: Anything but “Super”
Like leggy plants given too much fertiliser, [sic] these buildings are a symptom of a city irrigated with too much money. The Guardian takes on the emergence of a "new" typology in "Super-tall, Super-skinny, Super-expensive: the 'Pencil Towers' of New York's...
Mechanical Voids Are Highbrow/Despicable
From New York Magazine's "The Approval Matrix: Week of February 4, 2019": "So it's perfectly legal right now for developers to put 160-feet tall "mechanical voids" in their buildings to give apartments higher priced views?" Wethinks they're looking at you, 50 W. 66th...
Out of this world!
GOTHAMIST picks up where it left off last week in its expose on the City Planning Commission's Zoning Text Amendment. Journalist Elizabeth Kim notes that although this language may impact the design of 36 West 66th Street, to revise "the design of a 160-foot tall...
Contact Information
Sean Khorsandi
Executive Director
LANDMARK WEST!
LandmarkWest@LandmarkWest.org
45 West 67th Street New York, NY 10023
212-496-8110
