Per NYguy:
https://twitter.com/LinksGems/status…463936/photo/1
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^Wow, that’s gonna be my wallpaper for a long time haha
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Here is the guy who took that famous picture of a bunch of construction workers sitting on a girder way up in the sky and having lunch? The photographer who took that picture was Charles C. Ebbets.
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Man, Hell’s Kitchen just refuses to heighten in any meaningful way, huh?
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That’s due to the boot/L shaped area of Hell’s Kitchen being under a preservation area, certain developments can’t rise past a certain height.
The majority area in yellow is that preservation area.
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I would imagine that an updated identity would be a mix of Singapore style casino towers and Hong Kong style affordable housing developments. Add in a few more Wall Street investment firms, legal syndicates and medical research spaces and traditional employment centers for a new neighborhood identity.
Well the problem in that is that HK has such a storied identity that completely changing it in that manner would essentially erase it, just like Soho, Tribeca, Chelsea, the LES, UWS/UES, etc have these kind of townhouse like identities.
The majority of HK is residential, with a sparse amount of commercial ground floor here and there (mostly on the Ave’s). I expect it to remain as such with the boundaries only changing due to being surrounded by commercial zoning.
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Leave it as is, it creates such a good contrast with the rest of Midtown, and it is a great escape from the insanity of Times square.
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As long as you keep the development relatively fine-grained but high-density, the neighborhood should be fine. It’s just possible that eventually we cannot afford to post pretense around the fact that we can’t avoid this kind of inevitable change for Hell’s Kitchen. Certainly not in the long run. This is where some more like 25-30 story buildings built on relatively small bits of property mixed in with several casino towers might not be such a bad combo. As a famed future mafia don said, It’s not personal. It’s strictly business. It’s strictly proper, future-proof zoning that’s able to adapt to the times.
I understand wanting to make the area more dense with high-rise apartments, but why mix in casino towers into that equation when the area is residential? I don’t believe that the current gaming license run is going to become a precedent to allow a bunch of casinos to just open all over the city and they shouldn’t.
The character of HK makes it, if all of it is replaced, then it won’t have the same character in all aspects, not just architecture, the same thing could be said if the cast iron buildings in Soho were replaced for the sake of density. If density is a factoring part, the south side of the HK district near Hudson Yards can continue to grow denser with more buildings, but otherwise as Alemel said, the majority of it needs to be left alone.
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That entire canal should be surrounded by development, period. Get rid of the industrial zoning and have it all upzoned for residential use. That canal is deserving to be apart of a new residential neighborhood.
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That’s amazing that you can see the Manhattan skyline from Stamford! I love the NYC skyline views from CT like these! 
I was looking at my photos from the last time I was in the city and saw 60 Wall Street looked totally empty. After researching I found this (I can’t remember if it was posted on YF)
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