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Excavation Underway At 249 East 62nd Street On Manhattan’s Upper East Side

Excavation work is underway at 249 East 62nd Street, site of a residential tower on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Developed by Zeckendorf Development with CM & Associates as the general contractor, the project has undergone some design modifications since our last update in early 2018, when renderings and plans for a Rafael Viñoly-designed 32-story, 510-foot-tall skyscraper were revealed. There is now a revised building diagram that depicts a roughly 27- to 28-story edifice with a tall ground floor, a tiered and multi-faceted crown, and an L-shaped footprint with frontage on both East 62nd Street and Second Avenue. Zeckendorf had hired INC Developers in late 2020 to redraw plans for a scaled down residence roughly 330 feet tall with 30 floors.

Not much can be spotted from across the street through the green wooden sidewalk boards and beyond the foreground of mechanical equipment and machinery. Work is progressing below street level and foundations should likely commence in the coming weeks and months.

A completion date of spring 2023 has been posted on the construction board.

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