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Current Status: In Planning
80 South Street Vital Stats
Address: 80 South Street, New York, New York 10038 (Community Board 1)
Type: Mixed Commercial and Residential
Name: 80 South Street
Construction: _
Design Architect: _
Executive Architect: _
Developer: China Oceanwide Holdings
Builder: _
Height: 1,436 feet (438 meters); 113 stories
Total Construction Floor Area: 1,067,350 square feet; 99,160 square meters
Site Area: _
There are no zoning documents currently available to the public for this development.
Superlatives: Lower Manhattan’s tallest proposed supertall.
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...
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Sean Khorsandi
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LANDMARK WEST!
LandmarkWest@LandmarkWest.org
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212-496-8110
