The MTA released a video showing the train shed reconstruction at Grand Central and what it entails.
There’s plenty more on the MTA Flickr Page.
Any possibility they are making more cut throughs for crosstown traffic?
No need for that. There are underpasses on every block beginning with 102nd Street. A few of them only provide pedestrian access because there is no crosstown traffic there on account of NYCHA developments that stand in the way.
Good video. Explains that the new Chase building has not much more usable space compared to the Carbide building because of more elevators.
It’s also wrong. 270 Park Avenue is quite a bit larger than the old Union Carbide building was
Believe what you will -
What do you mean by that? You know you can just Google to confirm instead of throwing someone’s statement down.
Union Carbide had 1.5 million square feet, 270 Park Avenue has 2.5 million square feet
Did you watch the video?
I watched the video, it definitely seems there may have been a mix up between what buildings were being referenced, as the secondary figures being used to describe the floor area of the current 270 are more likely describing One Vanderbilt.
Because it seemed like Mr. Potts was referring to ZFA (the usable area), the original 270 PA was indeed around 1.11 million ZFA, the present day 270 PA is 1.86 million ZFA. 750,000 ZFA more is not quite not much more usable space as you’ve been led to believe through the video, especially since it is not counting mechanical and shaft area.
The overall building GFA in general adding the mechanical space and shafts is still much larger than it’s original counterpart. 1.52 million GFA vs 2.50 million GFA as TK2000 correctly stated.
I was going by the comparable illustrations of floorplans/elevators. Are you saying the second set is actually One Vandy?
No, the plans displayed still shows both iterations of 270 Park, but the information spoken in comparison was most likely mismatched with One Vanderbilt, which has 1.3 million ZFA. This building has 1.9 million ZFA.
The video compared 1m ZFA to 1.3m ZFA, which is what is making you believe that this building has not that much more usable space when it is really 750,000 sqft larger in usable area and not <300,000.
The video also chose to compare the sky lobby floors of the larger plates when the majority of the large trading floors dont have all the middle elevators on them.
Thanks for clearing that up. I’m assuming these trading floors are minus those extra elevator shafts as well. The whole thing is confusing. I expected better from AD. Maybe they’re upset the Carbide building is gone.
Architectural Digest, despite its name, is an interior design magazine. They may be out of their league here.
They should not be confused with Architectural Record, which is an architecture magazine.
Seems like a better fit than City Winery to be honest, particularly the design of the kiosks etc