Yea, compared to today’s buildings that Post office building was amazing.
But if you compare it to the buildings of that time period that roof was pretty ugly.
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Really like how this building is turning out to be!
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They are still working on the residential entrance. But the glass above it is in place and looks exactly like the rendering. Should look awesome when lit up.
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They recently rerouted the pedestrian path from inside the building to a protected path on the street, implying that they’ve started on the ground-level façade.
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This tower is beautiful.
I wish that Park Row would be closed to traffic and made into green space. I’m sure that any bridge traffic could be rerouted.
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Hoo boy. I just watched several very large, heavy-looking sheets of plywood fly off the upper floors of this building and fall to the ground with several loud “bangs”. They need to secure this site much better or someone is going to get seriously hurt.
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to be fair today was probably the windiest day in forever
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Yeah this is the 2nd weekend in a row with bad weather. Seems like Monday through Friday, when most people work… weather is just lovely… but… BUT… come the weekend, Mother Nature decides to have her fun. Ughghghgh lol 
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I love every part of it. This tower is a modern masterpiece albeit seeming barely modern.
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To me it has the silhouette of a skyline in one building!
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Foundation Detail from the old Park Row Building
Foundation Plan
Pile Foundation in Park Row Building:
The total weight of this Building was estimated at 65200 tons. 56200 tons being for the weight of the structure, including wind pressure, but exclusive of steel frame, which latter portion was estimated at 9000 tons. The area covered is about 15000 sp. feet and some 3900 foundation piles were used, thus giving about 16 tons per pile.
Test borings indicated an underlying bed of uniform, fine wet sand, extending some 95 ft. to hard-pan or bed-rock, and this material proved so firm and solid that but few of the piles could be driven lower than 15 or 20ft. The piles were therefore driven until the last blow showed a refusal of 1 in. fall under a 2000-lb hammer with a drop of 20 ft.
from the book: Architectural Engineering 1901
under construction 1899
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They built it to last!
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I live around this building and it already feels like it’s been part of the neighborhood for years and years. Such a great building as many others have already mentioned
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this one turned out beautifully. It’s clear from the photos and up close in person that the materials used in this project are super nice
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Taken 1.26.20:
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Wow, one of the rare times where the finished product is actually BETTER than the renderings
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