100 Reasons to be Psyched about 2008

[tone99loc]

A collaborative exercise! I will get the ball rolling:


1. The Bank of America bldg will be completed and ready for occupancy - IMO, until the top is finished, the final verdict is still out on this building, but we'll have a much better idea in a few weeks.

[alonzo-ny]

2. WTC towers growing above street level.

[BigMac]

3. Completion of the TKTS booth at Duffy Square.

[ramvid01]

4. Construction beginning on Richard Roger's designed Silvercup Studio.

[alonzo-ny]

5 Beekman getting underway! Maybe even a rendering!

[tone99loc]

6. First of the 340 new Kawasaki-built PATH cars go in service!

[BrooklynRider]

7. Joe Sitt doesn't get to destroy Coney Island forever.

[DarrylStrawberry]

8. Bye bye W.

[Skylimitone]

8. Bye bye W.

LOL!! and 9. Hello Madam................












eeehm sorry Miss Brooklyn?

[arcman210]

10. Goldman Sachs world headquarters topping out... and I would assume the glass makes it almost all the way up if not all the way by the end of 2008

[alonzo-ny]

11 Deutshe Bank finally getting levelled

[NYatKNIGHT]

12. Enjoying new segments of Hudson River Park and Riverside Park South.

[alonzo-ny]

13 Highline getting somewhere.

[Peteynyc1]

14. That horrible white New York Dept of Labor building being razed (54th St between 8th and Broadway)

[NYguy]

15. 80 South Street gets underway. (nobody said we couldn't dream)

[Stern]

16. 400 Park Avenue South starts construction.

17. One year closer to the MOMA Spire starting construction.

[posterboy]

18. Survivor staircase gets shipped off to Neverneverland

[DarrylStrawberry]

19. Brooklyn Bridge Park.

[arcman210]

20. New Yankee Stadium nears completion.

21. Citi Field nears completion.

[BrooklynRider]

22. One million new trees!!!

[nycla3]

23. WilliamBeaver completed, construction workers vamoose, streets repaired, traffic relieved (if slightly)

[alonzo-ny]

24. 50 West gets underway.

[pianoman11686]

25. Columbia University begins its expansion.

[infoshare]

26. The construction (and possible completion (http://wirednewyork.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13300)) of 100 11th (http://wirednewyork.com/forum/showpost.php?p=187158&postcount=70).

[alonzo-ny]

27 Shigeru Ban Condo

[TREPYE]

24. 50 West gets underway....and the demolision of another charming old New York building.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2109/1521722220_eb86009526_o.jpg
Not much to look forward to. Specially knowing that there are some eyesore garages near there that are much more worthy of destruction.

[alonzo-ny]

Lets keep this thread on track, theres a thread for the 50 west discussion.

[tone99loc]

28. Completion of 785 8th Ave - and we'll get to see what's done with the windowless North facade

[lbjefferies]

29. Completion of 200 11th Avenue:


http://img137.imageshack.us/img137/507/200eleventhzi8.jpg



As long as they don't skimp on materials, this could be a real stunner

[LeCom]

30. Announcement of the Hudson Yards bid winner

[BrooklynRider]

31. Downtown Brooklyn Grows Up

[NYatKNIGHT]

32. Intrepid returns to Pier 86.

[Eugenius]

33. More clarity (hopefully) into the fate of the new Penn Station

34. Work gets underway for the 7 Train expansion and the 2nd Avenue subway.

[tone99loc]

35. Completion of 20 Pine residential conversion, downtown (can anyone confirm?)

36. Completion of "The District" on Fulton St, Manhattan

[TREPYE]

37. Freedom Tower spire redesign...hopefully:o

[tone99loc]

38. Fiterman Hall gets demolished