Current Status: Completed
One Chase Manhattan Plaza Vital Stats
Address: 28 Liberty Street, New York, New York 10005 (Community Board 1)
Type: Commercial
Name: One Chase Manhattan Plaza; Chase Manhattan Bank Building; 28 Liberty
Construction: Begun 1957; Completed 1963
Design Architect: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
Executive Architect: _
Developer: JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Builder: Turner Construction Company
Height: 813 feet (248 meters); 65 stories
Total Construction Floor Area: 2,299,979 square feet; 213,675 square meters
Site Area: 112,555 square feet; 10,457 square meters
Filed prior to July 2009, there are no Zoning Diagrams scanned for this project.
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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...
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Sean Khorsandi
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LandmarkWest@LandmarkWest.org
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