Current Status: Completed
One Manhattan Square Vital Stats
Address: 252 South St., New York, New York 10002 (Community Board 3)
Type: Mixed Residential and Retail
Name: One Manhattan Square; 227 Cherry Street; 252 South Street
Construction: Begun 2015; Completed 2019
Design Architect: Adamson Associates Architects
Executive Architect: AAI Architects, P.C.
Developer: Extell Development Company
Builder: _
Height: 847 feet (258 meters); 80 stories
Total Construction Floor Area: 1,200,000 square feet; 111,480 square meters
Site Area: 94,619 square feet
There are no zoning documents currently available to the public for this development.
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
