NEW YORK | Fulton Street Transit Center

[Eidolon]

Originally Posted by NY Times

Tall Tower Near Ground Zero Is Proposed


NY Times
By CHARLES V. BAGLI
November 12, 2002

A developer who has built a dozen residential towers in the relatively safe environs of the East Side now wants to plunge into uncertain waters downtown, with a new 90-story skyscraper that would be the second-tallest building in New York City — and only a block from ground zero.

Friends of the developer, Trevor Davis, describe him as a visionary for his designs for a building that would be 1,050 feet tall, 4 feet taller than the Chrysler Building, but 200 feet shorter than the Empire State Building, on a block at Broadway and Fulton Street.

Mr. Davis is undeterred. "I typically don't chase pipe dreams," he said, his soft accent hinting at his South African origin. "I'm looking seven years in advance. I think that downtown has all the ingredients to be the next attractive location, for residential and retail space, and a finite amount of office."

Designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox, the $680 million, 1.3-million-square-foot tower would be called 1 New York Place and combine shops on the bottom floors with 679,000 square feet of office space and 68 floors of apartments on top of the offices, on an entire block on Broadway, between Fulton and John Streets.

I wonder if 1 New York Place will be brought back from the dead in some form or athoner when the transit center is completed?

[TechTalkGuy]

I'm not certain if this is the right thread for 1 New York Place, but if you want to provide a link to the correct thread, that might be helpful?

Perhaps NYGuy can chime in, since he is the skyscraper expert here.

[Eidolon]

Originally Posted by fish

I'm not certain if this is the right thread for 1 New York Place, but if you want to provide a link to the correct thread, that might be helpful?

Perhaps NYGuy can chime in, since he is the skyscraper expert here.

1 New York Place is pretty close to the transit center and it would make sense to either revive this one or start something new here because the area will become a more desirable place to live and work in. With so many projects being proposed, revived and resuming contruction I'd say that we will see something there sooner rather than later.

[mrnyc]

fstc looks good and yeah its going to simplify that hideous tangle of filthy rabbit warrens and rat mazes, but i cant help thinking that if they had chucked this project idea and instead dug up hanover square and stuck a tbm in there it would probably at least be up to 14th st by now. i'm just cranky about 2nd ave lol!

[BStyles]

True, I am too, but it is easier to star on a road where a definite path is ensured, rather than to bore under ground where hundreds of foundations are secured. The SAS will have to be at least 100-150 feet below ground by the time they make it to Hanover Square.

[babybackribs2314]

BEHOLD THE OCULUS!

Full update: http://www.newyorkyimby.com/2012/07/...shiny-new.html

[NYguy]

http://www.mta.info/mta/realestate/f...enter-rfp.html

MTA Seeks Proposals to Manage 65,000 Sq. Ft. of Retail Space at Fulton Center

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is seeking proposals from experienced developers and property managers for a long-term master lease of the Fulton Center. This iconic development will include approximately 65,000 sq. ft. of retail/commercial space and over 50 revenue-generating multimedia displays in the newly-constructed Fulton Building, historic Corbin Building, and the Dey Street Headhouse and Concourse.

The Fulton Center will link 9 subway lines, PATH service, and the World Trade Center Site, improving travel for nearly 300,000 transit riders every day.

[NYguy]

MTAPhotos

[mrnyc]

the project is moving
along this afternoon

[Dac150]

This will be a huge milestone for Lower Manhattan when all said and done.

[NYguy]

Originally Posted by mrnyc

the project is moving
along this afternoon

I love the presence that it has down there, not an easy thing to do in Lower Manhattan. A worthy counterpart to the PATH terminal that will begin sprouting its wings before long.

[NYguy]

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...icle-1.1171690

$200M Dey St. Concourse to be padlocked for several years




PETE DONOHUE
September 30, 2012

If you build it, they will come — and sleep on the floor, and panhandle . . .

For years, Metropolitan Transportation Authority construction and planning schedules have pegged November 2012 as the time for the opening of a new underground connection between the Fulton Center subway complex at Broadway in lower Manhattan and the Cortlandt St. station on the eastern edge of the World Trade Center site. Workers are now putting the finishing touches on the passageway, which cost more than $200 million to build. Known as the Dey St. Concourse, the subterranean walkway will feature a wall of giant video screens, some providing travel information, some displaying advertising. The turnstile banks are in place. The bright lights are installed and shining. A ribbon-cutting should not be far away. Yet transit officials now say they plan to keep the Dey St. Concourse padlocked — for several years.

The official reason: Few riders will make use of the free transfer. The demand, officials say, will come when the new office towers being built at Ground Zero are completed and occupied, and the Port Authority finishes its permanent — and extravagant — PATH hub. That’s will be in 2015. Maybe. “The small number of people we believe would use the transfer . . . does not justify the expense of opening, maintaining and policing the passage,” MTA spokesman Adam Lisberg explained.

Incredibly, the MTA says an analysis concluded that if the tunnel were to open as initially planned, just five people an hour would want to use the walkway and make a free transfer between the R train at Cortlandt. St. and the many lines running through Fulton Center.

So, then, who will come? The homeless — at least that’s the MTA’s fear. The concern is that the brand-spanking-new concourse might become an encampment for the poor, unmoored souls you see huddled in doorways in the city or standing outside soup kitchens. “It’s an extra challenge we don’t need,” said a transit official given anonymity to voice the worries of MTA decision-makers.

Trains on eight subway lines stop at the Fulton Center subterranean complex: J, Z, A, C, 2, 3, 4 and 5. The MTA has been overhauling the complex for years, station by station. It has built new and wider mezzanines, interior stairways and street-level entrances. It has installed better lighting and improved sound systems.

The Dey St. headhouse — a new entrance with a glass canopy and escalators at the corner of Dey and Broadway — is expected to open this month, possibly even next Monday. But the Dey St. Concourse will remain sealed off behind locked doors and temporary walls.

It’s a tunnel to nowhere. Or a tunnel before its time. Either way, no one will be able to use it.

[NYguy]

MTAPhotos

[NYguy]

http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/2012...subway-station

New Entrance Opens at Fulton Street Subway Station





October 8, 2012
By Chelsia Rose Marcius

Straphangers traveling through Downtown Manhattan now have a new way to reach the 4 and 5 trains. A new entrance to the Fulton Street station on the corner of Dey Street and Broadway opened Monday, allowing for greater accessibility to the southbound platform. “It’s about time they think of this station,” said D. Carl Lustig, 58, who has been taking the 4 and 5 lines to work for more than 30 years. “I think they did this very quickly. The stop gets a lot of traffic, and this will be a very well-traveled entrance.”

The new entry point is the most recent addition to the Fulton Street Transit Center project, a $1.4 billion endeavor that is slated to open in June of 2014.

“It has changed the dynamics of that corner significantly, and it is a major improvement for the many people that pass through Lower Manhattan,” said Catherine McVay Hughes, chairperson of Manhattan's Community Board 1. “Now, for the first time, there’s a brand new elevator, which is something the community supported,” she added, noting that the feature will allow for passengers in wheelchairs, mothers with strollers and others to access the platform with greater ease.

Passengers can also use the new entrance to access the northbound platform for 4 and 5 trains, as well as the 2, 3, A, C, J and Z lines.

Simone Clarke, 40, of Flatbush, said she was drawn to the sleek look of the industrial glass exterior of the Dey Street and Broadway entrance. “The last time I was here it was covered in scaffolding,” Clarke said. “It looks really nice now, and very clean. I hope they can make the rest of the station look like this.”

[Eidolon]

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/20...n/#more-439713

A 19th-Century Dividend at a 21st-Century Station
By DAVID W. DUNLAP
November 9, 2012

The brightest new architectural addition to Lower Manhattan is now emerging from its cocoon of scaffolding, 124 years after construction began.

No, this isn’t another post about the World Trade Center project.

It is about the Corbin Building, a sumptuous nine-story Romanesque Revival tower that was built from 1888 to 1889. Its future was imperiled in July 2003 when the Metropolitan Transportation Authority began developing plans for the Fulton Street Transit Center on the same block.

At the time, it was by no means certain that the Corbin Building would be left standing. Indeed, there seemed — on the face of it — to be little reason even to try. Why go to the trouble and expense ($59 million, as it turned out) of grafting a decrepit, inefficient, obsolete office tower on to a modern transit interchange and shopping mall?

Yet, the Corbin Building had many things in its favor, beginning with the arrestingly robust design by Francis Hatch Kimball, among the more imaginative New York architects of his day. On his death in 1919, The New York Times said he was “often spoken of as ‘the father of the skyscraper.’” The namesake of the building, Austin Corbin, had united a tangle of small railroads on Long Island into the colossus of the Long Island Rail Road.

[401PAS]

What a wonderful contrast in styles!! This is SO New York!!!

Originally Posted by Eidolon

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/20...n/#more-439713

A 19th-Century Dividend at a 21st-Century Station
By DAVID W. DUNLAP
November 9, 2012

[marvelfannumber1]

I read a bit about the restoration of the Corbin building after seeing that pic and was hugely impressed. Now if only they could do the same to poor old 1 times square.

[WTCman7301]

Here is the building before it was renovated...

[401PAS]

Thanks WTCman7301. What a stunning renovation.

Amazing what removing 125 years worth of dirt will do to a building!!!

[eleven=11]

why is the corbin building so skiny?