Current Status: Complete
220 Central Park South Vital Stats
Address: 220 Central Park South (Community Board 5)
Type: Residential
Name: 220 Central Park South
Construction: Begun 2014; Completed 2018
Design Architect: Robert A.M. Stern Architects
Executive Architect: SLCE Architects
Structural Engineer: DeSimone Consulting
Developer: Vornado Realty Trust
Builder: __
Height: 953 feet, (290.4 Meters); 70 Stories
Total Construction Floor Area: 414,346 square feet; 38,494 square meters
Site Area: __
Density: 116 residential units
View Zoning Diagram HERE
Superlatives: 10th Tallest Building in NYC at time of construction.
On January 23, 2019, billionaire hedge fund manager Kenneth C. Griffin purchased a $238 million penthouse, making it the most expensive home ever sold in the United States
Loopholes Exploited: Packing multiple mechanical floors above street level to elevate sellable floors.
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
