really not even worth a comment
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Rather blasphemy than boredom.
But what’s boring about the current conditions? More people (a great deal of people use Bryant Park) currently use Bryant Park as it is than if it was a Plaza where they can’t lounge about on what would be hardscape.
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Let’s not bring bad ideas back from the dead, please.
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Yeah, but sometimes I like a bad idea now and then. Helps to keep stock.
While we’re at it, let’s knock down the boring old Statue of Liberty and replace it with something inspired by this Modernist icon from my home town:
Wikimedia Commons source
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What is possible if I take air rights from the 871 7th Ave. property on this 870 7th Ave. property?
Who it possible to build such a similarly high Supertall?
https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/building/rizhao-center/39419
While we’re on the subject, I’m converting half of this property into a plaza/park.
What do you think of my suggestion, or you @lowkeylion ?
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This is a good site.
You’d get a building with about 650K sqft of buildable area, which appears much smaller than the linked supertall, so I’d say with high probability no, one could not be built that tall (1600’) with that amount of building/allowable area, even without the proposals strange antenna/spire top. But it’s also difficult to compare with a proposed building that has no other information but height. Height cannot be compared to area.
What exactly does the figure of 650,000 square meters mean? I can’t do much with it. The building was just one example I found.
That is about 60,500 sqm, but that is also why area can’t be compared against height, because the two do not correlate. Air rights give way to make buildings larger in terms of floor area but not always taller. Air rights is the unused developable area of an existing building, and not necessarily air space.
The overall question of how tall can a building be (anywhere) in NYC based on sqft-age is a bad one in general because that is not predictable but for those areas with height restrictions. Floor area just tells us how big/large a building can be, not how tall.
FAR is only one part of the puzzle that tells us how large a building can be but it never tells us how tall it can be, that’s where other zoning protocols come into place (sky exposure plane, building max envelope, etc) I could have a 100,000 sqft lot with a developable area of 100,000sqft (1 FAR) the building could be 1 story/10’ tall or 100 stories/1000’ ft tall with that same 100,000 sqft, it’s simply not easy to answer the question of how tall a building can be when only given developable area and nothing else and nobody should ever speculate that a building can be tall just because it has +/- developable floor area or simply because a new development is possible.
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I don’t want to push a thread:
where is it possible to build a megatall?
(FAR) and at most probable?
790 7th Ave?
I think it’s very possible. 790 7th, yes.
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Do you know any other locations?
Park Ave.?
Very tall buildings will be built at the Park Lane and Hotel Roosevelt sites.
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Theoretically a megatall would fit perfectly at the MSG site, with a height of at least 700 meters 
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The shorter placeholder next to 111 West 57th Street seems to be between 1470-1500ft, while the taller placeholder seems to be between 1690-1800ft, although it could be taller
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