# NEW YORK | 50 West 66th St | 775 FT | 70 FLOORS **URL:** \ **Category:** Completed\ **Created:** [November 27, 2017, 6:47pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/new-york-50-west-66th-st-775-ft-70-floors/4068 "2017-11-27T18:47:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![Springboss123\_456](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.newyorkyimby.com/springboss123_456/32/182744_2.png) [@Springboss123\_456](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/Springboss123_456)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2022, 1:15pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/new-york-50-west-66th-st-775-ft-70-floors/4068/143 "2022-06-18T13:15:48Z")
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**Author:** ![robertwalpole](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.newyorkyimby.com/robertwalpole/32/15739_2.png) [@robertwalpole](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/robertwalpole)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2022, 1:33pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/new-york-50-west-66th-st-775-ft-70-floors/4068/144 "2022-06-18T13:33:08Z")
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**Author:** ![mcart](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.newyorkyimby.com/mcart/32/84718_2.png) [@mcart](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/mcart)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2022, 1:42pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/new-york-50-west-66th-st-775-ft-70-floors/4068/145 "2022-07-15T13:42:46Z")
> **[Construction Resumes on Extell's 50 West 66th Street Skyscraper on...](https://newyorkyimby.com/2022/07/construction-resumes-on-extells-50-west-66th-street-skyscraper-on-manhattans-upper-west-side.html)** > > Construction has resumed on 50 West 66th Street, a 39-story, 775-foot-tall, 125-unit skyscraper from Snohetta and Extell on Manhattan's Upper West Side. ---
**Author:** ![mcart](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.newyorkyimby.com/mcart/32/84718_2.png) [@mcart](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/mcart)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2022, 5:27pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/new-york-50-west-66th-st-775-ft-70-floors/4068/146 "2022-07-15T17:27:43Z")
As crawford pointed out, this will be the first large upcoming tower in the Lincoln Square neighborhood. But it will also likely be the shortest. The ABC campus is right across the street and we will see some extremely tall skyscrapers there. ---
**Author:** ![Shane\_Keena](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.newyorkyimby.com/shane_keena/32/77791_2.png) [@Shane\_Keena](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/Shane_Keena)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2022, 6:43pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/new-york-50-west-66th-st-775-ft-70-floors/4068/147 "2022-07-15T18:43:06Z")
Don’t forget 200 Amsterdam, so this will really be the 2nd large tower. The ABC properties will be this neighborhood’s Hudson Yards. ---
**Author:** ![GSPLover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8c91f0/32.png) [@GSPLover](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/GSPLover)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2022, 10:51pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/new-york-50-west-66th-st-775-ft-70-floors/4068/148 "2022-07-15T22:51:09Z")
Not if the very well organized Upper Westside NIMBYS have anything to say about it!! ---
**Author:** ![mcart](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.newyorkyimby.com/mcart/32/84718_2.png) [@mcart](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/mcart)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2022, 11:27pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/new-york-50-west-66th-st-775-ft-70-floors/4068/149 "2022-07-15T23:27:08Z")
Ha! They sure will put up a fight! ---
**Author:** ![mcart](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.newyorkyimby.com/mcart/32/84718_2.png) [@mcart](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/mcart)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2022, 2:02am UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/new-york-50-west-66th-st-775-ft-70-floors/4068/150 "2022-07-16T02:02:28Z")
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**Author:** ![Jaydayvis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6de8d8/32.png) [@Jaydayvis](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/Jaydayvis)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2022, 7:21am UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/new-york-50-west-66th-st-775-ft-70-floors/4068/151 "2022-07-16T07:21:58Z")
The NIMBY’s will be mad about this but I’d just look at them like… ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/yimby/original/3X/4/8/4825621585e175cb9bb0af8853e15e0f216c9b19.gif) ---
**Author:** ![stache](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.newyorkyimby.com/stache/32/30186_2.png) [@stache](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/stache)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2022, 1:21pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/new-york-50-west-66th-st-775-ft-70-floors/4068/152 "2022-07-16T13:21:24Z")
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**Author:** ![jackster99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f04885/32.png) [@jackster99](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/jackster99)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2022, 10:52pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/new-york-50-west-66th-st-775-ft-70-floors/4068/153 "2022-08-30T22:52:41Z")
I’m so sorry, I know everyone hates thread jumpers, but could someone who lives nearby get picture updates on this one? The last update was on June 10th when this had just started to go above ground. I have to imagine it must be getting pretty high by now! Many thanks in advance. ---
**Author:** ![Nickfloyo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.newyorkyimby.com/nickfloyo/32/173662_2.png) [@Nickfloyo](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/Nickfloyo)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2022, 1:21am UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/new-york-50-west-66th-st-775-ft-70-floors/4068/154 "2022-09-09T01:21:17Z")
![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/yimby/original/3X/3/8/380253d121cb19edd86ac1a25bb6c57e76c9b945.jpeg) We have liftoff ---
**Author:** ![TKDV](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.newyorkyimby.com/tkdv/32/83069_2.png) [@TKDV](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/TKDV)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2022, 1:54am UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/new-york-50-west-66th-st-775-ft-70-floors/4068/155 "2022-09-09T01:54:41Z")
Nice update @Nickfloyo! There’s your update @jackster99 👍 It’s really interesting that they are building out the dense array of columns on the left corner of the podium and not just keeping them normally spaced out and filling the false ones with metal stud assemblies like other projects normally do. ---
**Author:** ![Skyalign](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.newyorkyimby.com/skyalign/32/128133_2.png) [@Skyalign](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/Skyalign)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2022, 9:02pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/new-york-50-west-66th-st-775-ft-70-floors/4068/156 "2022-09-09T21:02:26Z")
Nice!! ---
**Author:** ![jackster99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f04885/32.png) [@jackster99](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/jackster99)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2022, 9:12pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/new-york-50-west-66th-st-775-ft-70-floors/4068/157 "2022-09-09T21:12:21Z")
Thanks so much for the update! ---
**Author:** ![infoshare](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.newyorkyimby.com/infoshare/32/18825_2.png) [@infoshare](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/infoshare)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2022, 1:17pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/new-york-50-west-66th-st-775-ft-70-floors/4068/158 "2022-09-10T13:17:21Z")
The sight of a modernist work of Architecture among all those traditional buildings along Central Park West is a refreshing sight to behold. The aesthetics of this particular design is artful & elegant: Architecture with a Capital “A”. I am glad to see we did not get another historical recreation such as 200 CPW - modernism is almost always the best way to go IMHO. I read this random statement on ‘Quora’ site - it expresses my attitude exactly regarding the choice of Architecture here a 50 West 66th Street. _Quote-_ _Modern architecture also had an aspect of self-reflection and self-criticality, so that it was meant to always question its premises and improve. Traditional architecture, at its worst, is just that - blindly following tradition, doing thing a particular way because, that’s just the way it has always been done. As a result traditional architecture feels familiar and comforting, but that doesn’t make it necessarily appropriate or the best solution. Modern architecture in turn will often seem jarring because it is trying to change things and critique itself. It is meant to be ever changing and evolving._ _This last bit has had its downsides as ‘new for newness’ sake’ - being avant-garde - is sometimes pursued for its own sake leading to mindless form-making and forgetting the original premise of order-versus-freedom._ _All of that said, traditional architecture isn’t bad. It was fine for its time. But replicating it doesn’t make sense. Learning from it, yes. The best modern architects copied scale, proportions, organisational principles, movement patterns, lighting strategies, and more, from the best of classical and other traditional architectures._ _There are other technical, material, structural and design aspects that modern architecture does well (sometimes) but I think these other more fundamental aspects are too often ignored if not misunderstood._ END QUOTE. > **[What are some advantages of modern architecture over traditional architecture?](https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-advantages-of-modern-architecture-over-traditional-architecture)** > > Answer (1 of 6): I'm going to take modern architecture in the historical sense meaning the architecture produced between 1750 and 1950 and not in the sense meaning contemporary. Modern architecture was born out of the socio-political changes brought... ---
**Author:** ![Nickfloyo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.newyorkyimby.com/nickfloyo/32/173662_2.png) [@Nickfloyo](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/Nickfloyo)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2022, 4:40pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/new-york-50-west-66th-st-775-ft-70-floors/4068/159 "2022-09-16T16:40:09Z")
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**Author:** ![Nickfloyo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.newyorkyimby.com/nickfloyo/32/173662_2.png) [@Nickfloyo](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/Nickfloyo)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2022, 4:05pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/new-york-50-west-66th-st-775-ft-70-floors/4068/160 "2022-10-11T16:05:17Z")
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**Author:** ![Skyalign](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.newyorkyimby.com/skyalign/32/128133_2.png) [@Skyalign](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/Skyalign)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2022, 4:32pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/new-york-50-west-66th-st-775-ft-70-floors/4068/161 "2022-10-11T16:32:13Z")
Climbing quick ---
**Author:** ![TKDV](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.newyorkyimby.com/tkdv/32/83069_2.png) [@TKDV](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/u/TKDV)\ **Post date:** [October 11, 2022, 10:25pm UTC](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/new-york-50-west-66th-st-775-ft-70-floors/4068/162 "2022-10-11T22:25:34Z")
It’s hard to tell but I think it’s nearing the end of the podium, I’m interested in seeing how the podium to tower transition occurs with the odd geometry in construction or if it will be normal and the angular geometry is secondary structure. [Previous page](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/new-york-50-west-66th-st-775-ft-70-floors/4068.md?page=7) [Next page](https://forum.newyorkyimby.com/t/new-york-50-west-66th-st-775-ft-70-floors/4068.md?page=9)