Courtesy of Zeckendorf Development
Current Status: Complete
520 Park Avenue Vital Stats
Address: 520 Park Avenue (Community Board 8)
Type: Residential
Name: 520 Park Avenue
Construction: Begun 2014; Completed 2018
Design Architect: Robert A.M. Stern Architects
Executive Architect: SLCE Architects
Structural Engineer: WSP Parsons Brinckerhoff
Developer: Arthur and William Lie Zeckendorf/Zeckendorf Development
Builder: Bovis Lendlease
Height: 781 feet, (238 Meters); 64 Stories
Total Construction Floor Area: 178,003 square feet; 16,537 square meters
Site Area: 10,800 square feet; 1,003 square meters
Density: 35 residential units
View Zoning Diagram HERE
Superlatives: Tallest building on the Upper East Side at time of construction.
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
