The fifth-tallest building under construction in New York is 262 Fifth Avenue, an 860-foot-tall residential skyscraper in NoMad, Manhattan. Designed by Meganom with SLCE Architects as the executive architect and developed by Boris Kuzinez of Five Points Development under the Five Points 262 Project LLC, the 56-story structure will yield 26 condominiums with an average scope of 3,200 square feet, including at least one quadruplex unit. GEA Consulting Engineers is the MEP engineer and CM & Associates Construction Management is the general contractor for the project, which located on a 5,000-square-foot plot on the southwest corner of Fifth Avenue and West 29th Street.
The slender reinforced concrete superstructure has doubled in height since our last update in late June, when the tower stood roughly even with the parapets of the taller prewar commercial buildings to the south on Fifth Avenue. Crews have surpassed two of the mechanical levels and are now in the process of forming the series of double-height floors on the upper half of the skyscraper. Based on the pace of progress, topping out could occur sometime this winter.
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
The skyscraper is particularly prominent from the pedestrian plaza at the base of the Flatiron Building at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and Broadway.
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Workers are also in the process of applying a black waterproof later on the mostly blank eastern wall, and are installing metal clips for the forthcoming façade paneling from a hanging scaffolding rig on the northern elevation. It’s possible that installation of the façade and floor-to-ceiling windows could begin later this winter.
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
The below rendering shows the skyscraper’s former 1,000-foot supertall design, which has been scaled back. However, it appears that much of the original style will be preserved in the updated scheme, including the porthole windows on the eastern face. The tower is also still planned to retain the rectangular canopy at the crown, which would cover a roof terrace.
262 Fifth Avenue with its previous height of 1,054 feet tall. Image by Meganom
YIMBY anticipates 262 Fifth Avenue will be completed near the end of 2024 or in early 2025.
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How unfortunate.
Slim but supertall I have been seen there, higher but decreasing in size the superstructure still stands out: Thanks to Michael Young.
56 stories, all this for just 26 homes?
Yeah, that’s what gets me. As I’ve said before they need to start taxing property in Manhattan on both value and unit size.
..and I guess nobody thought very highly of those ‘eastern views’, strange.
I never understand the comments about floors and number of homes….
The building has a small floor plate. The apartments are large. What’s the point?
Should it have 500 apartments?! 1,000? All studios?
(I’m not an advocate of this building, just frustrated at boring comments). Let’s talk about it’s lack of urbanity!
This building is a travesty. How did it ever get approved? It completely blocks the iconic view directly from the south of the Empire State Building that New Yorkers have enjoyed for decades.
It got approved because we are not a museum. We’re a dynamic growing city.
For a mere 26 apartments for the super rich, it is not worth it
For real, they should have just converted another block of the UWS from multi-family apartments to single-family homes. /s
You have no idea what a dynamic growing city means. It’s a phrase that stupid people on here use to sound smart.
Im all for development, but I think historic view sheds should be considered. This building is so ugly, and to take a view from thousands for the benefit of 26 rich people who wont even live there is insane
Me too. I lost my bearings when I looked at the picture with a view to the North. Where’s the Empire State? Oh, one has to get a better angle on Fifth by preferably crossing to the east side of the avenue or schlepping to Madison Square Park. As one who was a young lawyer with an office in the Empire State on the 47th floor facing West into Jersey during the mid to late ’70s, I regret the constant loss of the Empire State being THE focal point of Midtown.
The “ black paint” is actually waterproofing material.
Tear it down and give us the historic views back.
A building the height of 86 floors with 26 apartments?
5, 6
Pick up sticks
Is there a discount if I want to purchase an octoplex? I really don’t want THAT many neighbors close to me! 🤔🤣
I think you just coined a new real estate term…”OCTOPLEX”!
Used to be a lovely view from 23rd & Broadway. No one seems to understand why this building wasn’t stopped. Those who make the decisions on those matters were perhaps paid off or those who could have stopped it were not strong enough. Before we thought Russian money was behind this development, but Boris Kuzinez was misidentified as a Russian billionaire, he was born in Latvia and emigrated to Israel more than 50 years ago. If anyone has information on how buildings get approved or not approved I would love to investigate this with you
Compact skyscrapers are good.
Those views will be stunning…thankfully not any taller.
Really trying to look for a glass-half-full comment to make on this one. Well, at least Gene Kaufman isn’t the architect.
LOL! You win this comments page.
Lots of these comments are resentments about income inequality in the USA, which is obvious & getting worse. But NYC is dynamic & growing, unlike almost all other American cities. And if views of ESB are so vital, maybe the new buildings, with the new tech available, could be designed to be more beautiful.
Or maybe it could be designed to be invisible.
Do you think they’ll ever make a movie about a giant gorilla climbing this building? Or maybe a romantic rendezvous atop Midtown? Sorry—this is not a public building (as appososed to ESB)—you’re never going to the top of this building, this monstrosity. Congrats, NYC—you’ve killed the Golden Goose!
Russian money laundering + paid off city shills at its finest
I hate this building so much. Whoever thought it would be a great idea to block the ESB from one of the most iconic views should be thrown from the top of it 😕
HIDEOUS and completely out of place. Thousands of Manhattan residents are extremely upset their beautiful northern view of the historic Empire State Building taken away and/or permanently obscured by this unnecessary, obscene structure owned mostly by foreign investors.