Image Credit: David Smooke
Current Status: Completed
New York Times Building Vital Stats
Address: 242 West 41st Street (Community Board 5)
Type: Commercial & Office Buildings
Name: New York Times Building aka 620 Eighth Avenue aka 242 West 41st Street
Construction: Begun 2003; Completed 2007
Design Architect: Renzo Piano Building Workshop
Executive Architect: FXFOWLE Architects
Engineer: Thornton Tomasetti
Developer: Forest City Ratner Companies
Builder: AMEC Construction Management
Height: 1,046 feet, (318.8 Meters); 52 Stories
Total Construction Floor Area: 1,545,708 square feet; 143,601 square meters
Site Area: 79,000 square feet; 7,339.3 square meters
Density: ___
Filed prior to July 2009, there are no Zoning Diagrams scanned for this project.
Loopholes Exploited:
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West 66th Street Appeal: How We Will Beat the Voids
West 66th Street Appeal: How We Will Beat the Voids Long, long ago, in a land (not so) far, far away... In January of 2015 LW! began monitoring the development at 50 West 66th St. and challenging the loopholes that resulted in its design. This was never a fight about...
News on ABC: Special Report
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STILL GOING: Stopping the Copper Top at 50 West 66th Street
Year 6, and LW! continues the MARCH for you. On December 7th, 2020 LANDMARK WEST! filed our Article 78 asking the NY State Supreme Court to review the BSA's 2-2 tie decision to allow HUGE mechanical void floors to jack up the height of the proposed building at 50 W....
Contact Information
Sean Khorsandi
Executive Director
LANDMARK WEST!
LandmarkWest@LandmarkWest.org
45 West 67th Street New York, NY 10023
212-496-8110
