He also seems to have cleared away almost all of the remaining lawsuits to proceed with 50 West 66th, which, at 775 feet, would be the Upper West Side’s tallest building yet.Ĭornell Tech Campus, Roosevelt Island: The university has finished construction on the Graduate Hotel and the Verizon Tech Executive Education Center, the fourth and fifth buildings to open on the Cornell Tech Campus.
A master of air-rights assemblages, Barnett has arguably done more to reshape the neighborhood than anyone else in recent years, even if the results are undistinguished and the neighbors aren’t very happy about it. After building two contentious towers - the 38-story Ariel East and the 32-story Ariel West - on Broadway near 99th Street in the mid-aughts, Gary Barnett has continued to throw up glass tower after glass tower on the Upper West Side. The music will - if everything goes right- sound better, too.Ģ551 Broadway, Upper West Side: Another looming, utterly unexceptional Extell tower in a sea of looming, utterly unexceptional Extell towers. Because of shutdowns, the project didn’t need to be phased (as had initially been planned). But, in one of the few silver linings of the pandemic, Diamond Schmitt Architects’ $550 million renovation of David Geffen Hall, the Lincoln Center home of the New York Philharmonic, is poised to open this fall, two years early. Once trains start running into the new terminal, some 162,000 people a day will have an easier, faster commute.ĭavid Geffen Hall: It’s basically unheard of for a major construction project to finish two years ahead of schedule. The project, first proposed in the 1960s, will extend the Long Island Railroad to a terminal below Grand Central. Long Island City’s skyline is one of the city’s most dynamic, even if the predominantly residential nature of the neighborhood’s new development - and the sheer quantity of it - make that easy to forget.Įast Side Access: Billions of dollars over budget and decades late, East Side Access, one of the largest transportation infrastructure projects in the U.S., is actually maybe going to be completed this year.
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A rental that’s 30 percent affordable, the building has a curved exterior and is the first New York residential project to feature View Glass, which allows residents to control the tint of their windows through an app.
Sven, the second-tallest at 762 feet, developed by Durst, was designed by Handel Architects with interiors by Annabelle Seldorf. Skyline Tower, a condo and the neighborhood’s tallest structure at 778 feet, is the more generic of the two, designed by Hill West Architects and developed by United Construction & Development, FSA Capital and Risland US. Skyline Tower and Sven, LIC: Long Island City’s tallest and second-tallest towers both wrapped up construction during the second half of 2021. Photo: The Durst Organization/Giles Ashford But these projects, drawn up in a pre-pandemic world, will emerge in an environment that their developers and designers never saw coming. But others, like JP Morgan’s supertall office tower rising at 270 Park Avenue, feel much less assured: Will commuters ever flood Midtown on weekday mornings again? Will corporate tenants simply decide to take less space and pay less for it? Will East Side Access, a decades-long dream, be a few years too late for the commuters it was designed to help? Big development projects often feel like an act of fortune-telling - guessing the needs and desires of a city years in the future. The success of at least some now feels like a foregone conclusion - the rich, it seems safe to say, still want to live in New York. A few of the buildings listed below are in the thick of construction, others are opening their doors, and all are, in some fashion, debuting in 2022. Developers and builders continued to push skyline-, neighborhood-, and city-changing projects forward.
Photo: ArX Solutions, The Durst Organization/Giles Ashford, JDS Development Group/Crown, Diamond Schmitt Architects, OMAĮven as this stop-and-start year progressed - vaccines and reopenings and a return to something that felt kind of like normal life, followed by variants, supply-chain issues, and a wave of cancellations - real-estate plans churned along.