New York City will eventually have 100 supertalls, far surpassing anywhere else on Earth. The market is simply white hot. Millennials and Gen Z absolutely love New York City. It is the capital of the world. The national city of America. There is simply too much demand for NYC real estate for us to NOT hit this goal, in time.
Here is the list of supertalls currently complete or proposed with an announced height.
Here is my list. It’s a bit old at this point so I’ll probably need to update it.
List of supertalls (Currently built, proposed, on hold, and under construction)
1 WTC
Affirmation Tower
175 Park Avenue
Tower Fifth
Central Park Tower
350 Park Avenue
111 West 57th Street
1 Vanderbilt
432 Park Avenue
270 Park Avenue
2 WTC
80 South Street
30 Hudson Yards
Penn 15
Empire State Building
Bank of America Tower
45 Broad Street
41 West 57th Street
3 WTC
The Brooklyn Tower
343 Madison Avenue
53W53
Chrysler Building
New York Times Tower
The Spiral
35 Hudson Yards
740 8th Avenue
247 Cherry Street
One57
262 Fifth Avenue
520 Fifth Avenue
570 Fifth Avenue
One Manhattan West
3 Hudson Boulevard
35 - 38. Possible 4 + Penn Station Supertalls
39 - 41. Possible 3 + PABT Supertalls
42 - 43. Possible 2 + Hudson Yards supertalls
(These are really just guesses)
Macy’s Tower (could be a supertall)
790 7th Avenue
46 - 50. Possible future Midtown East supertalls
Surprisingly it’s looking like he is. Which is good. If his red carpet via the DOB for development jargon is anything to go by. He also, when the Real Deal had their conference, spoke highly of real estate, so that’s always a good sign. Now he just needs to step it up on crime prevention but we won’t get into that.
On super talls, the race is on to a 100!
If anything, Adams is more hindered by the borough presidents in Queens and Harlem City Council officials. But I do believe he is very much pro-development and a good force in that respect.
We’re already on track for 45 - 50 completed or under construction for 2035.
I imagine residential will have to lead the way to 100. Maybe some supertalls along the waterfront in both Manhattan and Brooklyn. Maybe we could even get that red hook redevelopment from a while back.
Yeah the Red Hook can be a big one. I believe the success of that will bank on transit expansions but the potential is there. Yeah a bulk IMO will be of mixed use. Unless the city starts encouraging market rate units along the waterfront or near transit that are at a minimum of a 1000 units, which on a tangent, is something I’d like to see. As a comparison. if we look at some of the projects within Miami-Dade, many of those are high unit counts, 800-1000 units, and the frequency is up there… now… translate this to NYC and the potential is there. Smaller footprints but a good way to one get supertalls and two, to aid with the supply issue. The city can do it, it just needs to encourage more of it. Also getting rid of air rights and relaxing the zoning in some areas to allow for these units to rise.
Yup yup. Hopefully we see a boom of them. It’ll be great for the city. Lots more units. Plus it will have the added benefit of making NYC look so much bigger, just like the Brooklyn Tower has done.
Also I like how tall the ones we’re getting are. Not just a bunch of 984’ buildings.
100 Supertalls is just incredible to think of. The skyline is the city’s ever-changing face, always aging and growing. Now I am just praying that we get Two WTC in the next 5 or so years to fill that gap from 1 to 3 WTC.
nyc is capital of the world 
