Excavation is underway at 622 Eleventh Avenue, the site of a 14-story residential building in Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan. Designed by S. Wieder Architect and developed by Cheskel Schwimmer of Chess Builders LLC, the 119-foot-tall structure will span 127,613 square feet and yield 188 rental units with an average scope of 677 square feet, as well as 173 square feet of commercial space and a cellar level. The property is bound by West 46th Street to the north and Eleventh Avenue to the west, with frontage on both streets.
Recent photographs show the site cleared of its former low-rise occupant and multiple excavators beginning to dig below street level. The property is surrounded by a set of three-story holdouts at the two corners between West 45th and West 46th Streets.
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 below aerial images give a better perspective of the project site. YIMBY expects below-grade work to continue throughout the winter months, followed by the emergence of the new reinforced concrete superstructure closer to spring.
Photo by Michael Young
Photo by Michael Young
The main rendering depicts a multifaceted building massing with a distinctive angled volume on the upper levels of the main western elevation. The façade is composed of a mix of light and dark gray paneling, and the varied fenestration includes traditional window grids on the northern and southern ends, wide octagonal windows above the 11th-story setback, and additional column of horizontally extended windows with chamfered upper corners near the centerline. The ground floor is lined with thick black columns, creating a trapezoidal outline between the windows and dark mullions, and the entrance sits within a two-story glass wall. A row of planters will sit along the Eleventh Avenue frontage.
A list of residential amenities has yet to be confirmed. The nearest subways from the development are the A, C, and E trains at the 42nd Street-Port Authority Bus Terminal station to the east.
622 Eleventh Avenue’s anticipated completion date is slated for winter 2026, as noted on site.
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14 floors and 119′ would make each floor <8' with floor slabs and bulkhead. No way thats correct.
173 square feet of commercial space is also probably not correct.
The Landmark remains!!
Thank God the Landmark was a “holdout”!!
This was previously a lumber yard and is now going to be 188 apartments. Definitely a better use of space.
This and most other tall buildings in Manhattan look great if you were a bird and fly high to see theirm from way up there. But we are biped and walk. At street level is where we see them, and they all look the same: drab. Only some imaginative buildings make themselves different and attractive to pedestrians. The other, the archictects, make themselves attractive to other architects (who give them prizes!) or the developers (who see the mockups), while they relegate us the pedestrian seeing these on the sidewalk to hell.
Sounds like a you problem, this looks fine to walk next to.
Kinda weird and that’s okay.
173 square feet of commercial space – the size of a walk in closet.
So glad Landmark Tavern still stands.
Former site of Metropolitan Lumber’s lumber yard. Not many lumber places left in Manhattan.
It’d be hilarious to hear a NIMBY decry the loss of a lumber yard as a “vital” piece of New York history as something akin to the destruction of the old Penn Station 😂
I am in the building next door and I have been wearing noise cancelling headphones for the last two weeks and still hear them pounding out the excavation. It is awful to work. There is a luxury apt building right there-Gotham. What they need is affordable units and more commercial- supermarket etc.
Wait to when they start chopping at the granite and boulders below grade–Yikes!
Give an update on the work going on at the Brooklyn Bridge/Manhattan side
The what?
Love how the article describes the landmark tavern building as a “holdout”. One of the oldest bars in the city from 1868. Sure. Why don’t we just knock down everything historic in nyc and throw up more boring looking box buildings. Idiots.
The new landmark and rock excavation is highly challenging: Thanks.
Most definitely a better use of space. It’s interesting to see new construction in this neighborhood that is not really a high rise (it’s within the technical definition, but is much shorter than much of the recent new construction).