NEW YORK | 255 West 34th Street | 397 FT | 33 FLOORS

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That is for another unrelated smaller structure right next to the hotel

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Thanks. I wasnt sure if this was for the hotel or the other commercial site. Is there another thread for that one?

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No problem. There are three separate sites on that one corner, so it’s confusing. I made a post about it in August in the low-rise thread: NEW YORK | LOW-RISE / GENERAL Development News + Construction - #149 by streetscaper

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is this the smaller building, or the hotel?


201901143 New York City Midtown by taigatrommelchen, on Flickr

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it’s the smaller building, which has topped out now!

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Is Vornado’s POS on 34th and 8th completely gone? If so, hallelujah!

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It’s non-descript but the glazing is very high-quality

Taken on different days in the past few days:

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What a huge improvement!

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This project always confuses me. Is this the smaller building thats topped out or is it this…

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The pictures I posted were of the smaller building directly to the west of the taller hotel in your photo (which I believe is 255 W 34th, not completely sure).

There are 3 separate sites simultaneously being developed here (including the corner lot to the west of the small building in my photos), so it is confusing.

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Not sure where to post this but they are now excavating for the high rise hotel now that the 6-floor building next door is pretty much complete

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Now that the building next door is done, activity has resumed on this hotel, excavation is on going:

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Above street level now:

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I always enjoyed looking at the back side of those loft buildings on 35th. :cry:

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I notice lots of tourists (when we had them) stop and stare at the backs of those precise buildings too, some even take pic!

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Vornado owns the Famiglia building. Hopefully, they’re trying to acquire the “meth clinic” McD’s too.

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How many here remember McDonald’s ‘townhouse’ restaurants?

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What were they?

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A little internet doodling revealed this -
In the 1970s, McDonald’s introduced the “Townhouse” concept. The first McDonald’s “Townhouse” opened in New York City on Manhattan’s Upper West Side in 1972. The “Townhouse” title designated that the restaurant was not a drive-in. The concept for the up-scale, non-drive thru restaurants was developed by McDonald’s to cater to mostly urban areas.

I remember a couple in the Loop. Water tower Place opened 1976 and had a large McDonald’s in the mall but it was not ‘townhouse’. I think townhouse meant you had to be able to enter directly from the sidewalk.https://www.flickr.com/photos/65359853@N00/49787089223/

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