Below-grade work is in full swing at 225 East 45th Street, the site of a 21-story women’s shelter and supportive housing facility in Midtown East, Manhattan. Designed by Dattner Architects and developed by Project Renewal, the 216-foot-tall structure will span 135,000 square feet and yield 171 shelter beds, as well as 131 permanent housing units. The latter will include 79 supportive units, 51 affordable units, and one apartment for a superintendent. The development will also feature a medical clinic, on-site social services, and a 30-foot-long rear yard. The property is located between Second and Third Avenues.
Several sections of the new reinforced concrete foundations have already been formed. A network of steel rebar is in place for the inner substructure and perimeter walls, while portions of the base are still awaiting the completion of the foundation slab. Work on the superstructure will likely begin sometime later next month.
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 updated rendering in the main photo above was posted on the construction board depicting a dark red brick façade surrounding a grid of wide rectangular windows. A setback at the eighth story stretches the width of the main southern elevation and is shown topped with a landscaped terrace. The western lot line wall will be left blank and enclosed in gray concrete. The main entrance is tucked under the second story and sits along new tree-lined sidewalks.
Below is a former iteration for 225 East 45th Street featuring a light gray façade and different fenestration on the lower levels.
Rendering of 215 East 45th Street in Midtown East, Manhattan. Courtesy of Dattner Architects
The shelter will occupy floors one through six, followed by the permanent housing on levels seven through 21.
The $126 million project is replacing a seven-story homeless shelter run by nonprofit service provider Project Renewal. The former occupant of 225 East 45th Street was constructed in 1939 by the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary and originally served as an orphanage and convent.
The nearest subways from the development are the 4, 5, 6, 7 and Shuttle trains at the 42nd Street-Grand Central Terminal station to the west.
225 East 45th Street’s anticipated completion date is slated for fall 2026, as noted on site.
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Great project. And hurray for the holdout!
Why is a shelter being built in one of the most expensive neighborhoods in the World? Its residents will not be able to afford Anything in the area.
For the same land price, you could probably build ten times the space in another borough.
Why is the city wasting our money, And harming residents who will not be able to buy anything?
insanity .. how many billions are we spending for the so called homeless?
plenty of affordable housing in these United States.
Only New York City would build this here.
Cost of what? a million a unit if not more .
will do nothing for the problem. its a bottomless pit.
How much does the CEO of this non profit make ?
Fight the consent decree that makes NYC required to house every single person who demands it from wherever they are. No other city or state in US is required to do this
Here’s question,Where are shelters supposed to be building. I was in a shelter twice in my life. Most recently as a 55yr old woman on disability. People need those services. That’s judging all homeless people. Please answer Where to we build them??
The US could easily solve the homeless crisis easily and cheaply by removing homeless, migrants from major cities, (NY, SF, LA) and building housing in a vacant state in the Rockies.
Damn—that’s so crazy, it’s actually true…. We have the real estate!
The US has precedent for that. It’s called an internment camp. We’ll be right back there soon enough with this administration.
It is being built here because this is where the property is owned.
…and where the use has already been approved. There are few places in this country that would accept a use such as this that was already pre-approved. Can you imagine trying to add this density for this type of use anywhere else? In midtown Manhattan it’s fine, anywhere else the NIMBY’S would have a field day.
Some pretty extreme comments. For clarity, one should read Glaeser for an understanding of why wealthy places attract rich and poor. The Lower East side was the most densely populated place in the world in 1900. And poor. And those problems were tackled by spreading opportunity not displacement.
All this negativity here…
Rich ghettos are as bad for society as poor ones. You have to mix people of different backgrounds unless you want segregation and parallel societies with billionaire rows on one side and poverty ridden outskirts on the other.