More scaremongering from the Times…pure fantasy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/30/n...owers.amp.html
Towering Over Midtown: The Penn Station Super-Talls
The proposed project would include buildings in the West 30s that would be among the tallest worldwide, with one tower that could surpass One World Trade.
By Matthew Haag
August 30, 2022
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Gov. Kathy Hochul is betting on a legacy-defining project that would transform Midtown Manhattan with 10 new towers surrounding Penn Station, the busiest transit hub in North America and possibly the most roundly disliked. The project will take about two decades to complete, with the last building opening in 2044, the state said.
There is a lot we still don’t know about the development, including the buildings’ exact dimensions, but New York State says they will not have a height limit except on one site. Fortunately, the state has published a few renderings of the site, with the towers drawn to scale to how they could be built, so we can extrapolate possible heights.
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Eight of the 10 towers would rise more than 1,000 feet, all of them located east of Eighth Avenue. Two buildings that would be on the west side of Eighth Avenue, just south of the new Moynihan Trail Hall, would be far shorter, between 400 and 875 feet tall. Those two buildings would house most of the residential units included in the project.
The other eight buildings would be huge, even by Manhattan standards, and would rank among the tallest not just in the city but in all of the United States. By my calculation (using Photoshop’s handy Ruler Tool), the tallest would be Site 7, stretching skyward about 1,900 feet, at Seventh Avenue between West 32nd and West 33rd Streets. That would be taller than One World Trade, currently the tallest building in the city, at 1,776 feet, a nod to the year when the Declaration of Independence was signed.
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Site 7 would be almost entirely offices, and the property is owned by Vornado Realty Trust, a publicly traded company that owns another four properties that would be redeveloped. If it reaches 1,900 feet, Site 7 would be the fifth-tallest in the world and the tallest outside Asia and the Middle East, according to the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.
Two other huge buildings would be built just south of Penn Station, on West 31st Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues. The farthest east building on that block, known as Site 2B, could reach 1,725 feet tall. That building would also have nearly 2.9 million square feet of space, nearly all of it dedicated to offices, making it bigger than the nearby Empire State Building.
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What are the tallest buildings in New York City? Here are the city’s five tallest towers in the office and residential categories, according to the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.
Office
1. One World Trade, 1,776 feet. (Sixth-tallest overall in the world.)
2. One Vanderbilt, 1,400 feet
3. 30 Hudson Yards, 1,270 feet.
4. Empire State Building, 1,250 feet.
5. Bank of America Tower, 1,200 feet.
Residential
1. Central Park Tower, 1,550 feet. (Sixth-tallest residential building in the world.)
2. 111 West 57th, 1,428 feet.
3. 432 Park Avenue, 1,396 feet.
4. 53 West 53rd, 1,050 feet.
5. One57, 1,004 feet.
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