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One High Line's public park. Photo by Michael Young.

One High Line’s Public Park Opens at 500 West 18th Street in Chelsea, Manhattan

Construction is complete on the new landscaped public plaza at One High Line, a two-tower residential development at 500 West 18th Street in Chelsea, Manhattan. The park sits to the east of the twisting 36- and 26-story structures and was designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Field Operations in a private-public partnership between the City of New York and Friends of the High Line. Suffolk Construction was the general contractor.  The towers, designed by Bjarke Ingels Group for Witkoff Group and Access Industries, are also complete and span around 900,000 square feet with 236 condominium units in one- to five-bedroom layouts. The property also includes a Faena Hotel. The development is alternately addressed as 76 Eleventh Avenue and straddles the High Line on a trapezoidal plot bounded by West 18th Street to the north, West 17th Street to the south, Tenth Avenue to the east, and West Street to the west.

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JPMorgan Chase Holds Gathering to Honor Construction Workforce at 270 Park Avenue in Midtown East, Manhattan

Yesterday, YIMBY attended a special block party at the JPMorgan Tower, the company’s recently opened 1,389-foot-tall headquarters at 270 Park Avenue in Midtown East. Designed by Norman Foster of Foster + Partners and developed by Tishman Speyer, the 60-story supertall skyscraper yields 2.5 million square feet of office space with a capacity of 14,000 employees, and is the tallest structure in New York completely powered by hydroelectric energy. Adamson Associates was the architect of record , AECOM Tishman is the general contractor, and Gensler is the workplace designer for the $3 billion project, which occupies a full city block bounded by East 48th Street to the north, East 47th Street to the south, Park Avenue to the east, and Madison Avenue to the west.

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415 9th Avenue. Designed by Brandon Haw Architecture Planning Design.

Renderings Revealed for Hudson Ivy at 415 Ninth Avenue in Midtown West, Manhattan

Renderings have been revealed for Hudson Ivy, a 34-story office skyscraper at 415 Ninth Avenue in Midtown West, Manhattan. Designed by Brandon Haw Architecture Planning Design and developed by Cove Property Group, the 535-foot-tall structure will yield 287,692 square feet of office space and ground-floor retail. The property is located between West 33rd and 34th Streets.

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144 West 15th Street. Photo by Michael Young.

New Park Revealed for 143 West 14th Street in Chelsea, Manhattan

New plans have been revealed for a forthcoming park at 143 West 14th Street in Chelsea, Manhattan. Developed by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which owns the through-block parcel that also contains a five-story building at 144 West 15th Street, the park will replace a vacant lot between two wall murals. The property is located between Sixth and Seventh Avenues.

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