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City green-lights UES tower's height-boosting gambit

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The city's Department of Buildings gave its blessing last month to an unusual architectural element in plans for a Rafael Viñoly-designed, Upper East Side apartment tower: The top 12 floors will sit atop a largely hollow, 150-foot pedestal that boosts the height of the upper units to give them better views and ensure they command higher prices.

The project, 249 E. 62nd St., is one of many luxury apartment towers that are essentially putting their top floors on stilts through a creative interpretation of the city's zoning code. Developers are often able to add more than 100 feet to the height of their project without running over any limits on residential square footage. The trick is to dedicate a few floors with enormously tall ceilings to mechanical equipment, though in this case, the pedestal portion of the building also houses amenities.

The de Blasio administration has pledged to take a look at the use of these hollow sections, known as mechanical voids, and may rein in how large they can be.

"The notion that there are empty spaces for the sole purpose of making the building taller for the views at the top is not what was intended [by the zoning code]," Marisa Lago, director of the Department of City Planning, said at a recent meeting.

In November, a community group called Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts filed a challenge to the E. 62nd Street project, which is being developed jointly by Florida-based Real Estate Inverlad and South Carolina–based Third Palm Capital. The group lodged a number of complaints about the project's blueprints, but focused on the mechanical space, which they argued amounted to more than a quarter of the building's square footage.

"Clearly, much of this space … serves another purpose, which is to provide extra height to the building's upper floors," the group wrote in its challenge.
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Plans for ‘condo on stilts’ halted over fire safety concerns, says DOB

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Plans for a controversial Upper East Side “condo on stilts” are on hold due to fire safety concerns, according to the city’s Department of Buildings.

The city has requested the developers behind the 32-story tower at 249 East 62nd Street, designed by Rafael Viñoly Architects, acquire written approval from the fire department “concerning the proposed conditions at the intermediate level outdoor space, including but not limited to FDNY emergency access and safety operations,” states a letter by Thomas Fariello, the acting DOB commissioner, to local elected officials and preservationists.

Fariello’s memo follows those groups expressing concerns over a “mechanical void,” a multi-story, exposed stretch of the building that would, in theory, house mechanical equipment. Critics argue that those are often used to boost a building’s height without drawing from its overall footprint. In doing so, developers could charge higher rates for the building’s upper units, critics say.

In January, the Department of City Planning released a long-awaited zoning amendment proposal that, among other things, would make voids count toward a residential building’s total floor area when they’re taller than 25 feet, or when those floors are located within 75 feet of one another.

But building officials have not outright declared the gap in the 62nd Street building—developed by Real Estate Inverlad and Third Palm Capital—a mechanical void because it is exposed to the open air or is “outdoor space,” as Fariello put it, and may wind up exempt from the zoning amendment. Preservationists find this troubling when this particular “building on stilts” galvanized the city and elected officials to crack down on excessive mechanical voids.

“There’s definitely an issue there when that’s the building we know has gotten the attention of the mayor and city planning,” said Rachel Levy, the executive director with Friends of the Upper East Side Historic Districts, which pushed for the FDNY to review the 62nd Street tower’s plans. “The idea that that very building won’t actually be effected by this action is concerning and I think there’s some room for improvement there.”
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Excavation Underway At 249 East 62nd Street On Manhattan’s Upper East Side



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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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Title changed (due to revisions and scaling down) from:


NEW YORK ​| 249 East 62nd Street | 510 FT | 32 FLOORS

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NEW YORK ​| 249 East 62nd Street | 330 FT | 28 FLOORS
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Do we know what the building is going to look like?
I haven't see any newer renderings bar the one that was scrapped prior to the revision. Right now we just have this.




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249 East 62nd Street’s Terracotta Façade Underway On Manhattan’s Upper East Side



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Façade work is progressing on 249 East 62nd Street, a 28-story residential building on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. Designed by INC Architecture & Design with SLCE Architects as the executive architect and developed by Zeckendorf Development, the 347-foot-tall structure will yield 66 condominium units with sales led by Brown Harris Stevens Development Marketing. CM & Associates is the general contractor for the property, which rises from an L-shaped plot by the corner of Second Avenue and East 62nd Street.

At the time of our last update in November, crews were in the process of installing the floor-to-ceiling windows within the recently constructed frame of cinderblock walls. Since then, the exterior has been covered with a blue waterproof membrane and the first sections of terracotta façade paneling have begun to be put in place across the podium and lower floors. An assembly of scaffolding and netting envelops the multifaceted crown.

The tower features stacks of cantilevering balconies spaced at three-story intervals on the northern and southern sides of the main eastern elevation, and on the southern corner of the rear face. The final set of balconies along the northern corner has yet to be built, and will likely have to wait for the disassembly of the construction elevator.

The scaffolding that covered the podium at the time of our last update is currently being dismantled, revealing the look of the light-hued terracotta façade paneling, which features fluted texturing and earth-toned accents. We can expect the tower above to receive the same exterior treatment.

The building will house two to four homes per level. Amenities include a fitness center, sauna and steam room, and an on-site superintendent, with more likely to be disclosed as the project gets closer to completion. The nearest subways from the site are the F and Q trains at the Lexington Avenue-63rd Street station to the west, and the N, R, W, 4, 5, and 6 trains at the Lexington Avenue-59th Street station.

249 East 62nd Street is anticipated to be completed within the latter half of 2023.
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