Render courtesy of Rafael Vinoly Architects
Current Status: Under Construction
249 East 62nd Vital Stats
Address: 249 East 62nd Street (Community Board 8)
Type: Mixed Commercial and Residential
Name: 249 East 62nd Street
Construction: Begun 2019; Completed 2023
Design Architect: Rafael Viñoly
Executive Architect: __
Developer: Zeckendorf Development
Builder: CM & Associates
Height: 330 feet, (155.45 Meters); 30 Stories
Total Construction Floor Area: 145,130 square feet; 13,483 square meters
Site Area: 8,765 square feet; 814.29 square meters
Density: 83 units
View Zoning Diagram HERE
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
