Lost buildings due to NYC's recent skyscraper boom
There is a dizzying amount of skyscraper construction occuring throughout Manhattan, and obviously there are many buildings being sacrificed to make way for new developments. I am very interested to see what buildings have been the unfortunate victims of this construction boom.
Please post pics of recently-demolished or soon-to-be-demolished buildings, both significant and forgettable, that are being replaced with new shiny towers.
Great thread idea. Unfortunately its pretty hard to find pictures of what was on most of these sites before they were redeveloped.
One Bryant Park:
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Looking at these pictures it really brings me back to when this was the Wild West of New York and how gentrification swiftly took over, with Conde Nast, Reuters, Ernst and Young, Times Square Tower, and the final hold-out of the old gritty Times Square was finally won over and is now being replaced by One Bryant Park. Of architectural interest is the old sliver building, on the 42nd Street side, it was gilded with gold and was very ornate, I've found it impossible to find any pictures of its front facing side. Also the Henry Miller Theatre which has been preserved at the base of One Bryant Park at 43rd Street.
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99 Church Street. Soon to be demolished by Larry Silverstein as he constructs a 60-story tower on the site...
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Thanks guys. Have any tall buildings been threatened or demolished recently to make way for new development? I'm talking about buildings taller than 15 stories (which of course is not tall for NYC).
Madison Square Garden, 2 Penn Plaza....both will be demolished to make way
for the redevelopment of Penn Station (which sits underneath). Replacement
will include 2 (or more) towers, at 90 (or so) stories...
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Hotel Pennsylvania. Soon to be closed and demolished for a 2.5 msf office tower...
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130 Liberty St (Deutsche Bank building ). Unfortunate victim of the 9/11 attack. Currently being demolished, potential site 0f 5th WTC tower, new JP Morgan headquarters, 50 or more stories...
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(Going back) Singer Building...demolished in the 60's to make way for a new tower...
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It's replacement, the hulking Liberty Plaza, itself soon to be dwarfed by more WTC towers...
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The New York Coliseum, considered by many to be an eyesore, demolished to
make way for the new Time Warner Center...
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people seem to have this mistaken impression that Manhattan is nothing but skyscrapers. There are TONS of 1 or 2 story commercial buildings and 4-5 story run-down tenements with no redeeming architectural or historical value that beg to be torn down. There's also a lot more surface parking lots than you would think, in a lot of places.
Which is why demolishing something like the Hotel Pennsylvania, one of the higher-quality structures in an area with no shortage of crappy tenements and short commericial buildings, offends my preservationist sensibilities all that much more.
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It's replacement, the hulking Liberty Plaza, itself soon to be dwarfed by more WTC towers...
isn't it f*cking unbelieveable that such a monster of a building CAN be dwarfed? In my town it (OLP) would totally DOMINATE the damn skyline like some kind of alien structure!!!! It would be so damn out of place like the citadel seen in Half Life 2
i had to say that.... it's unbelieveable!!!
in fact i'm just pissed that we simply got no f*cking towers in this area.
what's 11 storeys against a 50+ black box... nothing!!!
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people seem to have this mistaken impression that Manhattan is nothing but skyscrapers. There are TONS of 1 or 2 story commercial buildings and 4-5 story run-down tenements with no redeeming architectural or historical value that beg to be torn down. There's also a lot more surface parking lots than you would think, in a lot of places.
None of which are located in the prime business districts. There's the far west side of course, but that's years down the road from actually becoming an alternative. Got to get that subway built first.
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“Office buildings are our factories – whether for tech, creative or traditional industries we must continue to grow our modern factories to create new jobs,” said United States Senator Chuck Schumer.
isn't it f*cking unbelieveable that such a monster of a building CAN be dwarfed? In my town it (OLP) would totally DOMINATE the damn skyline like some kind of alien structure!!!! It would be so damn out of place like the citadel seen in Half Life 2
i had to say that.... it's unbelieveable!!!
Not to get too off the subject, but it won't even compare to the smallest of the WTC towers...
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The Mayflower Hotel was replaced by 15 Central Park West.
That's a good one...
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Also isn't there a historic hotel on Park Avenue being replaced by a new tower?
Yeah, the Drake I believe...
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What did the NY Times Building replace?
The Times tower replaced a parking garage, and some smaller buildings...(some would say it replaced the garage with another garage)
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