No, read my last post above
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Thank you for posting, I was starting to think I was crazy. Obviously anything can happen and maybe the two âracinosâ are not 100% locks, but if that reporting is accurate, Related/Wynnâs Hudson Yards proposal is effectively one of 9 bids competing for 1 license.
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As far as I can see, this is based on absolutely nothing.
The state has never even implied this and it doesnât make sense as any of the new proposals would make a magnitude more money than either of those.
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I do agree, it seems like a waste to give two licenses to places that probably wouldnât bring in as much money⌠but Iâm just going off what Iâve read. We have nothing else but the RFP and these news articles to guide us.
Not giving the two existing ones a license and to others would seal their fate, forcing them to close. The Yonkers casino funds many programs in the city and it would be a shame for them to lose that revenue.
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I like this WAY better!
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This meets the original vision of the gradual terracing towards the river much better. The previous iteration completely messed up the whole complex proportion-wise.
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Major disappointment
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Iâm not the Emperor, but I have forseen this. It is a disappointment in terms of designâŚbut if it helps then I say âeh, whateverâ. Also you can see the west tower is slightly shorter
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Yeah my only gripe is that west tower since it felt somewhat unique. I donât get the height cut there but I guess it was to have the step-down effect.
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The office tower wouldâve been a nice additional supertall, but when thinking about this development with respect to the broader Hudson Yards district, I welcome this change which helps 10 and 30 Hudson Yards have more prominence from the river.
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Itâs meh. The missing super tall is a disappointment but housing is much more useful than the additional office tower. Since these are really early renderings, letâs hope those two housing towers wonât look so ugly when built.
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Hmm perhaps I worded incorrectly. Iâm ok with the office supertall being reduced because the tradeoff was a significant number of housing units. I meant I didnât like the height cut on the tower straddling the High Line. Of course with the height cut and redesign of the supertall office tower, it would have ruined the step-down effect if the High Line tower wasnât also chopped. I understand aesthetically why it happened but I donât love that change.
Edit: @BA178 I now realize you didnât respond to me when I look at the forum but for some reason I got an email that you did. Weird.
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Thank you for pointing out the height reduction of the high line towerâI hadnât initially noticed it. Its profile definitely looks a little stranger on its own, but it harmonizes with the newly added residential building IMO.
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My guess is that area is going to be kept empty. It is meant to be a symbolic remembrance of the Olympic Stadium that was never built. 
Just âspitballing hereâ. Who knows, what is happening there in that open space.
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Those are the marshalling yards, @Mackensen made a thread for the recent potential RFP that was issued for the site.
It is not a part of the Hudson Yards proper site, it is state owned/owned by Javits.
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I had to look this term up -
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