Progress has finally been made on the waterproofing and insulation for the rainscreens on the lot-line walls.
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There are a lot of undeveloped properties in the Midtown West area.
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That’s waterproofing as mentioned in my previous post. 
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I cant find the photo in my images anymore but the insulation had fully reached the top 2 weeks ago, I couldnt see if the rainscreen cladding had begun to be installed on the lower section from my vantage point but I’d assume it would start soon.
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A real update with a photo, I don’t want to say anything that assumes it’s permanent, but I think the gray is the final thing 
. If it infact is, then it just went back to looking like concrete and everyone will continue to complain until the adjacent building is developed to hide the lot line walls.
I don’t want to assume it’s the final thing but there is seemingly no indication that a rainscreen will be applied to the walls as was done on the lot line walls at The Set/Coterie across the street.
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Honestly still struggling to understand what’s going on here, this is from the 18th, I forgot about to look again last weekend so idk how much progress has been made since the 18th.
Looks like another (3rd) layer of waterproofing, maybe after they will put the rainscreen on, but if they don’t I can’t say I’ve ever seen such a large party wall exposed if they were to not cover it in a rainscreen.
You can see the bottom corner portion is the only portion that hasn’t received the first waterproofing coat nor the insulation.
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Thanks for catching that, I probably would’ve forgotten again today about this one
Even though that coat of waterproofing has progressed, i’m still unsure whether a rainscreen will be put up because no support channels were installed when the insulation when up.
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I honestly think that the black layer may be the final thing because you can now see the “joints” that are attempting to mimic joints in panels that were not as apparent when the other layers were being put up. I won’t be surprised if there is another layer though considering there is now 4 layers.
They did finally start to waterproof the uncovered bottom back corner though.
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I have to say, for a blank wall, this one looks real nice. I especially like the black color.
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Yes, this painted surface looks so much better than all the exposed “architectural concrete” being done on many other buildings in NYC.
If the blank concrete wall is not a truly ‘artisan’ effect, which is what Architectural Concrete is supposed to be; the final finish looks CaCa… 
I think most of these exposed concrete walls simply look unfinished; and I am sure average observer does not even know that raw concrete blank wall was the intended final effect - which looks unfinished & incomplete.
Here are some examples of what “architectural concrete” (or artisan concrete) is supposed to look like… 
