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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Courts Say No to Gerrymandered 200 Amsterdam!
READ THE FULL ARTICLE IN CRAIN’S NEW YORK BUSINESS: “Court Deals Blow to Controversial Upper West Side Tower” Excerpts below from March 14, 2019 article by Daniel Geiger [pdf-embedder...
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LW! Gives Testimony re VOIDS Proposed Amendment
On March 13th, the Department of City Planning (DCP) held a hearing on a proposed VOIDS Zoning Text Amendment. Read LANDMARK WEST's testimony below:[pdf-embedder url="https://www.landmarkwest.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/DCP-VOIDS-Testimony_LW_12March2019.pdf"...
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DCP hears testimony on Mechanical Voids
On Wednesday, March 13th the Department of City Planning held a long-awaited hearing on their Zoning Text Amendment to bring some predictability to the increasingly-abused mechanical void loophole exploited by developers to reach ever higher vantages. Initially...
Contact Information
Sean Khorsandi
Executive Director
LANDMARK WEST!
LandmarkWest@LandmarkWest.org
45 West 67th Street New York, NY 10023
212-496-8110