NEW YORK | 56 Leonard | 821 FT / 250 M | 57 FLOORS

[HiRiser]

Originally Posted by chris08876

Downtown with the various towers u/c. Notice how tall WTC3 is getting.

I wonder why for Leonard they decided to add the glass on some portions rather than work down to up?


New York trip 2015/2016 by Dawson Pearse, on Flickr

Probably got 2-3 crews installing windows at different zones simultaneously. Acceleration to get it closed in perhaps.

[chris08876]

Snapped off a drone video


Krispyshorts

[kznyc2k]

[chris08876]

View From 1 World Trade Center Observatory by lkaloti, on Flickr

[chris08876]

Leonard in the distance. It needs some company. Too far away from the cluster. There is a patch or a little void of sky between the central mass and Leonard, and that's not acceptable. Something must rise to fill that patch.


20160202_125047 by Christopher Estevez, on Flickr

[limak116]

Was the crane collapse that occurred this morning associated with this building? Sounds like from the descriptions it may be...

[Crawford]

No, the crane collapse is at a different site, at West Broadway & Worth. It was a demolition crane, for an upcoming condo project.

[Jayfar]

Originally Posted by limak116

Was the crane collapse that occurred this morning associated with this building? Sounds like from the descriptions it may be...

Don't know, but from one of the pics I can see it was not a tower crane.

http://static.lakana.com/media.fox5n....0_640_360.jpg

http://www.fox5ny.com/news/84751291-gallery

[forj]

Originally Posted by Crawford

No, the crane collapse is at a different site, at West Broadway & Worth. It was a demolition crane, for an upcoming condo project.

that's just one block to the southeast. i wonder if the crane collapse will cause any delays in construction here. i heard they are closing several roads in the vicinity during cleanup and investigation

[Eidolon]

^^^
Probably just a few days at most.

[Jayfar]

Originally Posted by forj

that's just one block to the southeast. i wonder if the crane collapse will cause any delays in construction here. i heard they are closing several roads in the vicinity during cleanup and investigation

More detailed article linked below. The crane had been working on AC units at 60 Hudson, formerly Western Union, now a telco/Internet carrier hotel.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/02/...rane-collapse/

[chris08876]

Credit: http://verticalaesthete.tumblr.com/

[NYCLuver]

February 20th, 2016

[mrnyc]

from the seaport lol!

[chris08876]

This tower is awesome. Also WTC3 and 50 West in distance.


New York by Fenzo, on Flickr

[vandelay]

30 Park Place looks like it was always there.

[ILNY]

Skyscraper hierarchy.

[artspook]

nobody can accuse big bad Leonard . .
of having nothing going on upstairs . .
the rollicking penthouses are in ruckus-mode full-swing . .
the daredevil-crown's doin' a jig . . scary Jenga pieces are missing . .

Thank God that . . at least in the lofty digs . .
they lost the shtick of attaching cracker-balconies with magic-glue . .
you know . . the ones they used on the lower middle floors . .
fastened to the building with those flimsy little pin nubs . .
wafers barely able to support themselves with a flower pot . .

But then get-a-load-a those thick chunky concrete slabs way up there . .
gee whiz . . from one extreme to the other . .
there'll certainly be no hard-wood floors sagging beneath onyx armoires . .
in Leonard's aerial deluxe suites . .

ah for more faith in engineers . .
as a giant crane crashes on Worth St. . . one block away . .
shake that bootie ! . .

[kznyc2k]

Just about done, and I gotta say I'm not loving it.

[kznyc2k]