Render courtesy of Brookfield
Current Status: Complete
2 Manhattan West Vital Stats
8Address: 389 9th Avenue, New York, New York 10001 (Community Board 4)
Type: Commercial
Name: 2 Manhattan West
Construction: Begun 2018; Completed by 2023
Design Architect: Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill
Executive Architect: Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill
Developer: Qatar Investment Authority; Brookfield Properties
Builder: Tischman
Height: 935 feet (285 meters); 56 stories
Total Construction Floor Area: 1,750,000 square feet; 163,000 square meters
Site Area: 61,719 square feet
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
