Render courtesy of Hill West Architects
Current Status: Completed
Skyline Tower Vital Stats
Address: 23-15 44th Drive, New York, New York 11101 (Queens Community Board 2)
Type: Mixed Residential and Commercial
Name: Skyline Tower; Court Square City View Tower
Construction: Begun 2018; Complete 2022
Design Architect: Hill|West Architects
Executive Architect: Hill|West Architects
Developer: United Construction and Development Group; FSA Capital; Risland U.S. Holdings LLC
Builder: _
Height: 778 feet (237 meters); 67 stories
Total Construction Floor Area: 976,079 square feet; 90,681 square meters
Site Area: 38,000 square feet; 3,530 square meters
Density: 802 units
View Zoning Diagram HERE
Superlatives: Tallest building in Queens.
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
