Render courtesy of MEGANOM
Current Status: Under Construction
262 Fifth Avenue Vital Stats
Address: 262 5th Avenue, New York, New York 1001 (Community Board 5)
Type: Residential
Name: 262 Fifth Avenue
Construction: Begun 2019; Complete by 2022
Design Architect: Meganom
Executive Architect: SLCE Architects
Developer: Five Points Development
Builder: CM & Associates Construction Management LLC
Height: 1,043 feet (305 meters); 60 stories
Total Construction Floor Area: 150,018 square feet; 12,929 square meters
Site Area: 9,994 square feet; 929 square meters
Density: 41 units
View Zoning Diagram HERE
Superlatives: First Supertall in NoMad
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
