A couple more renderings I made showing the building from various perspectives:
The like is for superb work depicting a building I hate 
Love it!! Can’t wait to see the official renderings, the blocky part of the tower is questionable but I love the unique top
The good news is that if they rezone Hell’s Kitchen one day they can easily cover up this botched circumcision.
Ignoring that this building looks fine, you’ll barely notice it once the PABT is redeveloped anyway. Not to mention any other large towers built around it.
That’s not quite true as this tower is 4 -6 blocks north of the proposed (4-6 depending on which tower you are starting from) PABT towers. There is no main vantage point that the PABT towers would ever block this project but from Jersey City, it will still be visible from directly across the Hudson as well as Downtown/Lower Manhattan
On another note, Hells Kitchen will never be rezoned, because however how many times I’ve had to mention it, it is under a special preservation area through the Special Clinton District enacted in 1974. New buildings in the bulk area cannot exceed a height of 85’.
A decision that was reinforced when they allowed World Wide Plaza to be built.
The old buildings and tree-lined streets of Hells Kitchen are beautiful.
What would it look like to allow neighborhoods like Hell’s Kitchen (which I agree should be preserved to some extent lest the city lose all of its historical character) to be redeveloped if facades and the streetscape are preserved. Like maybe adding towers of up to 30 stories hidden and set back from the street. This city needs density at all costs.
I wouldn’t want to see talk buildings towering over 19th Century structures. It would detract from the area.
Huh
You do know what city you’re talking about right? That already happens everywhere in the city.
I’m not for or against, or whatever but it just seems like a weird criticism lol
Huh?
Why don’t you actually come to NY. Many areas in Manhattan don’t have tall buildings.
That’s not the point I was making. Reread the comment.
The Hell’s Kitchen waterfront is very ugly and filled with parking lots and rundown warehouses. Also, most of those lots are huge so they could be used for any purpose. Such a waste!
I agree. It’s a total disgrace.
Another point of low density areas is they provide view corridors for nearby towers. I may have mentioned this before, I can’t remember.
Rules can be changed. In fact the Hell’s Kitchen Special District zoning rules have been altered since enactment. The Special District should have never happened, BTW. It was only enacted as a community giveback when the Javits Center was planned for the West 40’s near the Hudson. It was eventually moved south, so the whole area was downzoned to appease NIMBYs for basically nothing.
That’s true, rules can be changed, but the preservation area itself in Hell’s Kitchen has not been touched since the enactment, only the areas outside of it but with the boundary of the overall special district have. There is a difference between the preservation area and the special district of which I was particularly speaking of the preservation area of Hell’s Kitchen that will remain untouched which accounts for atleast 50% of the overall special district.
