Permits have been filed for a 28-story residential building at 473 West 165th Street in Washington Heights, Manhattan. Located between Edgecombe Avenue and Amsterdam Avenue, the lot is near the 163rd Street–Amsterdam Avenue subway station, served by the C train. Ari Sherizen is listed as the owner behind the applications.
The proposed 322-foot-tall development will yield 216,661 square feet designated for residential space. The building will have 276 residences, most likely rentals based on the average unit scope of 785 square feet. The concrete-based structure will not have any accessory parking.
Todd Poisson of BKSK Architects, LLP is listed as the architect of record.
Demolition permits were filed last month. An estimated completion date has not been announced.
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One of the very few wood frame houses still standing in Manhattan bites the dust with barely a murmur of dissent. A smart developer might have restored and incorporated the house into the new building
NYC doesn’t allow fireproof construction above non-fireproof construction so they would have to gut and rebuild the entire wood frame structure with new materials and could only keep the façade which in this case isn’t worth all of the effort.
For the reasons already mentioned and the basic programming for the new building it likely isn’t practical to save and incorporate the old wood frame structure. The minimum effort I wished we would see is to have the structure moved to another lot but unfortunately that’s also likely just as impractical.
Sometimes there’s just no obvious way to simultaneously preserve an old building while also making progress with new development.
Correct me if I’m wrong but wouldn’t 322 feet make this the tallest building in Manhattan above 125th Street?
That would be taller than the funhouse Radio Tower and I believe the GWB Apartments. I hope the design is excelleny because this will be very visible from all sides at this location.
Very thoughtful discussion. From a preservation standpoint, the best response to this is to identify the remaining wooden houses left in Manhattan, and developed a strategy for saving as many of them as possible. It’s a little bit like the Morosco , Helen Hayes, and Bijou Theatres not dying in vain because they lead to the saving of other theaters in Times Square.
Agreed
The house next to this was likely built at the same time. That one has been “modernized” in the Mediterranean McMansion Style.
It’s excruciating that the fate of the vast majority of old charming shingle and clapboard houses in this city, and in this metro for that matter, is to be encapsulated in hideous aluminum or vinyl or stucco cocoons.