439 East 77th Street
Photo by Michael Young
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203-205 West 38th Street (recladding)
Before:
source: Google Maps
After (earlier today):
What do people like more - before the reclad or after?
The reclad is mediocre and looks kind of dated. The old facades just needed a good power washing and they’d be good as new.
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Definitely a downgrade
Lipstick on a pig. Tear down and build a respectable high rise
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another recent reclad
307 West 39th Street
before:
source: https://www.apartments.com/307-w-39th-st-new-york-ny/l6618md/
after (earlier today):
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well…They did a great job at creating the ugliest block in the city.
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I hate it here
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I honestly wonder whether we might see a lot more of these ugly conversions as a side effect of the new scaffolding laws. If the cornices and stone embellishments on your building are in need of maintenance and you can’t just put a construction shed up for eternity anymore, the most cost-effective strategy is to just tear the facade down and replace with something that may not require as much maintenance (like the atrocity that recently happened in Herald Sq on 33rd). If your building isn’t landmarked, I’d assume that’d be the way to go now in this new regulatory environment. I hope I’m sorely wrong though, of course.
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Amazon is growing rapidly in the city. I like seeing the Magnificent 7 expanding more into NY. Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Tesla, and Microsoft. Heck even OpenAI is getting in the market. I’m wondering if Amazon would ever consider consolidating into one building.
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Too bad their HQ2 project didn’t become 2wtc or another supertall in the city.
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Yet, another beautiful building demolished, while also leaving a bunch of nondescript buildings standing. 
The replacement isn’t announced yet.
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Scaffolding coming down for 170 W 22nd St (7th Ave)
Not bad. Some thoughtful detail, good scale. An improvement.
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1011 First Avenue
1005 First Avenue
A developer’s plans to reinvent a Midtown office building are coming into sharper focus.
Vanbarton Group, one of the city’s most-active converters of commercial towers into rental housing, seeks to create 420 apartments at 1011 First Ave., the soon-to-be-former headquarters of the Archdiocese of New York, according to a new filing.
The filing, submitted Thursday to the city’s Department of Buildings, also calls for extending the height of the 398,200-square-foot structure by 6 stories, from 20 to 26. And Vanbarton intends to renumber the blockwide site as 1005 First Ave., according to the filing, which was first reported on by PincusCo.
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https://www.crainsnewyork.com/real-estate/red-hook-lot-van-brunt-street-become-two-5-story-buildings
418-420 Van Brunt Street (Red Hook)
Yehre Suh, principal at Clinton Hill-based architecture firm Office of Urban Terrains Lab, filed permits with the Department of Buildings this week to develop a pair of adjacent 5-story buildings at 418 and 420 Van Brunt St., records show.
Each property will be outfitted with a one- or two-family house, parking on the ground floor, commercial space designated for either retail or light manufacturing uses and a community facility in accordance with the lot’s zoning laws. The now-uninhabited site, between Coffey and Van Dyke streets, spans roughly 3,500 square feet, records show.
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