Work is nearing full completion on 111 West 57th Street as construction wraps up on the lower podium section of the 1,428-foot residential supertall in Midtown, Manhattan. Designed by SHoP Architects and developed by JDS Development, Property Markets Group, and Spruce Capital Partners, the 84-story skyscraper will yield 60 condominiums designed by Studio Sofield and marketed by The Corcoran Group. WSP is the structural engineer, Jaros, Baum & Bolles is the MEP engineer, R&R Scaffolding Ltd. provided the building maintenance unit (BMU) sitting atop the crown, RWDI consulted with the design of the dampening system, and BuroHappold Engineering is the façade consultant for the tower, which is located between Sixth and Seventh Avenues on Billionaires’ Row.
Since our last update in December, work continues to progress on the lower levels of the property, which includes the restoration and residential conversion of the adjacent Steinway Hall.
111 West 57th Street. Photo by Michael Young
111 West 57th Street. Photo by Michael Young
111 West 57th Street. Photo by Michael Young
111 West 57th Street. Photo by Michael Young
111 West 57th Street. Photo by Michael Young
The exterior of Steinway Hall shines in the afternoon sun, with its late 19th century ornamentation masterfully restored. This volume will house 14 homes, with the remaining inventory in the tower.
111 West 57th Street. Photo by Michael Young
111 West 57th Street. Photo by Michael Young
111 West 57th Street. Photo by Michael Young
111 West 57th Street. Photo by Michael Young
111 West 57th Street. Photo by Michael Young
111 West 57th Street. Photo by Michael Young
The retail portion of 111 West 57th Street has 85 feet of frontage and is intended to house nearly 50,000 square feet of prime retail space divided into the following: a lower level measuring 10,076 square feet with 16-foot ceiling spans; the ground floor spanning 8,201 square feet and 80-foot-high atrium and the landmarked rotunda space reaching 28 feet high; the mezzanine of the rotunda at 283 square feet; the third floor spans 15,523 square feet with ceiling heights varying between 15 and 39 feet high; and finally the fourth level measuring 8,620 square feet with 12-foot ceiling spans. The wooden sidewalk scaffolding was recently taken down and replaced with the more visually appealing Urban Umbrella scaffolding.
111 West 57th Street. Photo by Michael Young
111 West 57th Street. Photo by Michael Young
111 West 57th Street. Photo by Michael Young
111 West 57th Street. Photo by Michael Young
The opposite northern elevation along West 58th Street contains the port cochere, which should also not be too far behind with construction.
111 West 57th Street. Photo by Michael Young
Sales continue to progress at 111 West 57th Street, and we should see the ground floor of the building facing Billionaires’ Row wrap up work in the coming weeks.
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Raise taxes on alll these apartments and make a law thst corporations can not buy any without divulging identity of owners. Need to know if any of our enemies from Russia , North Korea, China own any of these.
Taxes are already chokingly high.
Ownership of real property is already public record – call a title company.
Russia house might possibly be the name of this place if some of the true owners are divulged. A testament to greed and alleged corruption.
Do the architectural tower elements lend themselves to ice collection and subsequent ice falling? If so, it will become a yearly problem.
money laundering on a grand scale
QUESTION – Is Steinway Piano Company moving back into the retail space?
Seems like a whole lot of building for approx.
100 part-time tenants?! 🤔
Will be interesting to count the lights ON at night, to see if it will remain empty most of the time?
So many plans disrupted by the blood lust of the Kremlin. All those super-talls designed to park Oligarch dollars in America where the rule of law is still honored. What now? Supply and demand. The flow of blood rubles is cut-off, bad news for the speculators. Maybe they can be used to house Ukrainian refugee families.
Hopefully the assets will be seized by the government and sold off to pay for crimes against humanity these people might have committed.
Let’s see if they continue to support this madness if it costs them billions. But, the men with guns rule in the end. This really is a war crime under Nurenburg rulings. Putin and his henchmen panned and initiated an aggressive war against an innocent neighbor. Their pretext of “de-Nazification” is transparently laughable.
In reality, I don’t think our courts would permit seizure of private assets without due process.
Can’t wait to see the lighting eventually for this tower 🙂
A friend of mine purchased a unit in this building. He is not a criminal. He is a hard working American. This desire to paint everything as completely good or completely evil is a big problem in this country and part of the reason why we are at loggerheads on just about every topic. As with most activities there will be people who will make their money through illegal acts. However, not everyone that purchases a pied a terre or an investment property in NYC is a money laundering criminal.
I don’t think anyone said “everyone.” In fact, your friend will probably be damaged to some degree financially by the end of the Russian money flow. It is a significant element in the trading of these super properties in NYC.
On another note, the preservation of Steinway Hall and the construction of this tower within its tiny footprint is a magnificent achievement by the architects, engineers, and constructors.
I agree, this is a fascinating building and it’s sad that it’s being stained by people who think it’s ONLY being bought and lived in by so called criminals. This is an architectural and engineering dream!
I doubt that Steinway is moving back but it would be perfect if they did For both the company and more importantly New York. They used to have these wonderful concerts in that perfect venue
Steinway moved their NYC story and performance hall to a new location along the Avenue of the Americas, and yes they host recitals. But that’s my question too, will they move back, or was that never the plan. I guess time will tell.
I actually never paid too much attention to the new Steinway Building, but I love it.
These comments are mostly idiotic. There is very little Russian oligarch money in the U.S. The U.S. is a terrible place to launder money. Monaco, the UK, Switzerland, yeah. U.S., absolutely not. I bet you the vast majority of buyers in the building are Americans. And a big percentage will be locals.
The Mayfair District of London is definitely more to the liking of rich Arabs and Russians, totally agree. It’s wealthy Chinese that buy up many of these properties.
Anyway, getting back to this building, Now that it has emerged from the construction phase, it is actually beautiful. And yes, Mr. Brennan, quite the achievement.
I still haven’t fully adjusted to the incredibly slim floor-to-height ratio, especially viewed from north/south.
This building somehow reminds me of the one in the Gorillaz music video “Feel Good Inc”
Must be the sewing-needle eye in the crown…
Everyone knows that these megapartments are principally trading chips for people who need somewhere to plant some dollars. Easily sold quickly (below the going rate) if the owner needs to liquify in an emergency. Ask the doorman. He knows how few people actually occupy these buildings as a real “tenant”.
That ‘dampening system’ better dampen.