Normally, when a tall hotel rises on a 33-foot-wide lot in Midtown, the result is a distinctly unappealing budget hotel designed by Peter Poon or Gene Kaufman. But in Midtown East, where room rates are…
When YIMBY last checked on progress at 217 West 57th Street and 220 Central Park South, digging was still ongoing at both towers, with concrete pouring just beginning. By early December, excavation had started to wrap-up at…
Back in January, Crain’s New York featured an article on “the baron of bland buildings,” aka Gene Kaufman. In the piece, the architect can be seen next to two different building models, one of which YIMBY has…
252 East 57th Street’s evolution has taken nearly a decade, but the condominium tower is finally on its way out of the ground. Interiors and close-up shots of the tower were posted alongside its new…
Back in September, YIMBY covered the first drawings posted for the revival of 172 Madison Avenue, a long-stalled site in Midtown on the northwest corner of Madison and 33rd Street. In the years since plans were initially…
