These four, small buildings are coming down.
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Hope it won’t be another poon/kaufman product!
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Hope you are right
A shame, I like those small buildings, just needs better retail and a wash
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I agree, but sadly, no one wants to spend the money on that since the ROI would be insufficient.
Okay that makes sense, but I’d rather they stay 20 years like that to be refurbished than be redeveloped today… If folks followed your logic in the past, then huge swaths of the now-awesome, pre-war parts of the city that fell into disrepair in the 60s/70s/80s would be long gone and replaced with lower-character blahness. 
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It’s not my logic. It’s what motivates developers. I favor preservation. Anyway, these small buildings have been neglected for my entire life. If they haven’t been restored for decades, they never will be.
Speaking of restoration, it would be nice if the shleps that own this gorgeous old building across the street restored the window to its original specifications. That blue reflective glass is hideous.
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No NB permits have been filed yet. I assume that this will be a hotel.
https://a810-bisweb.nyc.gov/bisweb/JobsQueryByLocationServlet?requestid=1&allbin=1034229
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Future homeless shelter -
Relevant details from Commercial Observer article:
Under its new ownership, Hiwin intends to develop a mixed-use building on the site that will include 9,241 square feet of retail space on the ground floor and 101,651 square feet of market-rate residential condominium units above, Kimyagarov said.
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https://www.crainsnewyork.com/real-estate/hiwin-group-plans-30-storymidtown-building
A Flushing-based real estate firm that has been redeveloping some of the area around Penn Station is now planning a 30-story mixed-use tower in Midtown with more than 100 units of housing, records show.
Hiwin Group, led by Xiaogang Wang as chairman and Fanggang Wang and Anthony Hu as co-CEOs, submitted permits this week to build a roughly 108,000-square-foot building at 16 W. 45th St., according to Department of Buildings filings. The proposed project, located between Fifth and Sixth avenues, would rise on what is currently vacant land after the recent demolition of a former office building on the lot.
Harry Song, a representative for Hiwin , filed the permits for the new building, which would include 125 residential units across 101,777 square feet and 6,634 square feet of commercial retail space on the ground floor, records show. The project would also include indoor and outdoor recreation space on the second floor and between four and six residential units on each of the upper floors. It is unclear if the residences would be rentals or condos.
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