NEW YORK | 507 West 42nd Street | 443 FT | 39 FLOORS

[chris08876]

Permits Filed: 507 West 42nd Street, 39-Story Residential Building In Hell’s Kitchen

A seven-story hotel on West 42nd Street between 10th and 11th avenues may bite the dust for a 39-story apartment building. The latest West Side megatower is planned for 507 West 42nd Street, a couple blocks north of the Lincoln Tunnel approach.

The 443-foot-tall building would hold 277,019 square feet of residential space and 4,328 square feet of retail, according to plans filed with the Department of Buildings today. There would be 350 apartments—10 per floor—and the average unit would clock in at a rental-sized 790 square feet.

As we’d expect from a luxury rental building, the development will have a slew of amenities, including a first-floor lounge with a kitchen, tenant storage, and backyard garden, plus a “sky lounge,” game room, shared terrace, and another lounge with a kitchen on the 38th floor.

BD Hotels, headed by Richard Born and Ira Drukier, is developing the project. The firm recently purchased a stake in the Hotel Chelsea, according to the The Real Deal. They also control 24 properties and several boutique hotels throughout Manhattan and Brooklyn, including the Ludlow off East Houston Street, the Bowery Hotel near Cooper Square, and the Jane Hotel in the West Village.

Handel Architects applied for the permits.

If these plans for 507 West 42nd Street become a reality, the tower will join the ranks of other large, glassy high rises on the Far West Side. Related Companies finished the 63-story MiMA rental tower down the block in 2012, and Kuafu Properties and Shanghai Construction Group recently announced plans to convert the top 13 floors to condos. At the corner of 42nd and 11th Avenue, Moinian Group is almost finished with Sky, a 60-story rental tower that’s one of the city’s largest residential buildings. And right across the street, the bland, twin facades of the Recession-era Silver Towers reach 60 stories into the air and hold 1,357 apartments.

What will be replaced:


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[chris08876]

Richard Born Moving Ahead with 40-Story Tower at 515 West 42nd Street

Richard Born, head of BD Hotels, is pushing forward with plans to build a 39-floor, 350-unit rental tower at 515 West 42nd Street in Midtown West. Last week, the Department of Buildings certified that the project adhered to the city’s zoning laws and the customary ZD1 diagram, outlining the building’s massing and open space, was published to the website.

The through-block parcel is located between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues and will replace a tired-in-appearance Travel Inn. The new tower will stand 431 feet tall to the top of its mechanicals and will sit between the Strand condominiums and the Rose-managed rental tower called The Helux. Under construction directly to the north is Elad Group/Mi&Co's Charlie West condominium designed by ODA New York.

Building permits filed last August show that Handel Architects are the architects of record and likely the designers. The zoning drawings show the building will be similar in stature to their recently-finished rental House39. The building will rest atop an Amtrak rail cut and most of its bulk will be positioned closer to 42nd Street to facilitate views past neighboring towers. The northern half of its lot will have a large entry courtyard bounded by forklift-like wings.

Inside will be 10 apartments per floor from levels 3-37 and the amenity package is to include an outdoor garden, fitness center and a sky lounge and roof terrace.

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[NYguy]

Let's hope some renderings redeem this. (Though it can be argued that what it's replacing is redemption enough).

[chris08876]

A tower similar to Handel's Riverwalk over in Roosevelt Island would be desired. I just hope its not tacky like the hotels rising in TS.

[Submariner]

Originally Posted by NYguy

Let's hope some renderings redeem this. (Though it can be argued that what it's replacing is redemption enough).

Hell, Gene Kaufmann might (might) be better than the existing disaster.