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.

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CITY Support!

CITY Support!

Local, City and State Electeds write in support of the 10 West 66th Street Corporation and LANDMARK WEST! zoning challenge against 36 West 66th Street. Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, City Councilmember Helen Rosenthal, Assembly Member Richard M. Gottfried...

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984′ and Counting

984′ and Counting

The definition of SuperTall has "grown" as the sky is, increasingly no longer the limit.  SHoP Architects has just passed the threshold into the SuperTall Club.  DEZEEN (linked) writes that 111 West 57th Street, the 43-foot wide plot will rise 1,421 feet toward the...

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Sean Khorsandi
Executive Director
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LandmarkWest@LandmarkWest.org
45 West 67th Street New York, NY 10023
212-496-8110

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