Reply With QuoteThere goes the views of the beautiful Woolworth from the bridge.Originally Posted by sfenn1117
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It will be very prominent. It will have a virtually unobstructed view when walking/driving across the Brooklyn Bridge. It's 876 without a spire, too, which makes it more impressive.
It may have benefited more with a crown of some sort, but I think it's going to look great. Another tall, skyline changing tower to rise without making headlines.
There goes the views of the beautiful Woolworth from the bridge.
876 ft is lower than we began to expect, but then again, its higher than anything we'll get on the Eastside at the Con Ed site. So I guess you can look at it both ways. Is the glass half full, or half empty?
I prefer half full. I'm looking forward to my trip to NYC this week.
tribecatrib
Beekman Street School Delayed
By Etta Sanders
JULY 3, 2006
The much-anticipated new k-8th-grade school that is to be located at the base of a 75-story tower on Beekman Street will not open until September 2009, a year later than originally announced. The delay could add to the strain on the increasingly crowded P.S. 234, as families move into residential buildings around the school.
“Any delay would be a shame,” said Councilman Alan Gerson. “We’re going to continue to push for an expedited construction schedule. We need the school immediately.”
At a June 27 meeting with Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver and Community Board 1 representatives, the Beekman Street building’s developer, Forest City Ratner, said the project was delayed by uncertainty over funding for the school, according to community representatives who were present. Mayor Bloomberg had said no new schools would be built in the city unless the state provided funding. Construction money went back into the city budget only after the state agreed to give $11.2 billion for schools citywide.
“I am disappointed that the schoolchildren and parents in my community will have to wait another year to get the school they had been promised because of the mayor’s refusal to live up to his administration’s commitment to the project,” Silver said in a statement.
The new building, designed by Frank Gehry, will go up in what is now a parking lot next to New York Downtown Hospital, and will be the tallest skyscraper Downtown other than the planned Freedom Tower.
Construction is slated to begin in September and will take between three and four years. Work on the foundation alone, including months of pile driving, is expected to take nearly a year.
Forest City Ratner did not respond to repeated requests for comment.
“We’re very concerned. We believe our quality of life is going to be totally damaged during this construction phase,” said John Fratta, president of the board of Southbridge Towers, an apartment complex near the site.
Congestion from construction vehicles and equipment on the narrow streets around the site may be exacerbated by the city’s plan to do an 18-month-long reconstruction of Beekman Street. Those streets are also heavily used by emergency vehicles from the hospital and from the firehouse on Beekman Street
CB1 district manager Paul Goldstein said his office would try to get the city to delay the street work. “The whole thing is going to be a mess,” he said.
The community board plans to hold a public meeting about the construction with Forest City Ratner in mid-September at Pace University.
Did something change? I'm still under the impression that the tower will be less than 900 feet meaning it will certainly not be the tallest skyscraper Downtown excluding the Freedom Tower. AIG & 40 Wall Street are respectively 952 feet and 927 feet.
If they're in such a hurry, why are they waiting till mid-September?
Summer in NYC -- hardly anything involving city bureaucracy gets scheduled from July 4 until after Labor Day.
(side note: that period is a great time to get called for jury duty -- few cases / quick in and out)
That's an explanation but not an excuse.
I hope that means they are going to work very carefully. I honestly don't think 140 Nassau, circa 1879 with masonry foundation, could survive a year's worth of seismic shocks.
We were promised that they would drill the pilings, not drive them.
pbh
I hope y'all got that in writing.
Better get to that meeting then...
Here's a quote from an article in the Downtown Express:
“Because the construction schedule was so aggressive, those months when we had to stop going forward because we simply didn’t have the money and didn’t know if we were going to have the money… contributed to the scenario where we could no longer count on a September 2008 opening,” said David Cantor, the Dept. of Education press secretary. Cantor confirmed that the school will not open until Sept. 2009.
The dispute lasted two months, and ended with Albany delivering New York City $1.8 billion in capital funds this year and authorizing a total of $11.2 billion in capital funds over the next five years.
The Beekman tower, a mixed-use residential tower, will rise where a parking lot now stands and will house an outpatient clinic for nearby New York Downtown Hospital, in addition to the school. Construction is expected to take three to four years. The 10 to 12 months of foundation work will involve pile driving, a noisy excavation process. Ratner plans to begin driving test piles later this month.
“It’s going to be loud and it’s going to be annoying for sure,” said C.B. 1 district manager Paul Goldstein. “We’re doing our best to mitigate it.”
www.200beekman.com website?
I found the website that somebody posted above, www.200beekman.com but am a little confused. Is this the website from Curbed? Or is this truly the website of 200 Beekman Street?
Tim Macking - CCNA - Visiting NYC...For now...
Considering the following I think it's just some guy who grabbed the website name ...
Below, how the tower would fit into the existing downtown skyline. Just—holy ****. There it is.
To day I passed by the site and saw a couple of huge drilling machines. The interesting part though is that there were still cars parked in the parking lot while they did this. Perhaps it is still in the "test" stages and thats why it hasn't been completely cleared out.
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