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AECOM wants to turn Red Hook waterfront into a 45,000-unit mega-development...
one moment please...Red Hook Container Terminal, Hamilton Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, United States+ Expand- collapseWhat do you get when you cross the new-waterfront nature of Battery Park City with the...
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REVEALED: Thomas Heatherwick’s $150M climbable Hudson Yards sculpture ‘The...
one moment please...Hudson Yards, New York, NY, United States+ Expand- collapseIt was nearly three years ago that Related Companies chairman Stephen Ross boasted that Hudson Yards‘ public art piece...
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Lowline team releases official proposal for $83M underground park
one moment please...Lowline Lab, Essex Street, New York, NY, United States+ Expand- collapseLowline Lab via 6sqft Just a couple months ago, the NYC Economic Development Corporation granted preliminary...
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The next frontier: A roundup of new developments reshaping NJ’s Journal Square
A Google Earth rendering of future Journal Square. Created by CityRealty The migration of the New York development rush over to Jersey City was no surprise. Located along the waterfront, Jersey City...
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REVEALED: Port Authority releases five design proposals for new bus terminal
one moment please...Port Authority Bus Terminal, 8th Avenue, New York, NY, United States+ Expand- collapseOn Tuesday, an agreement was reached between West Side elected officials and the Port Authority...
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Could Bjarke Ingels’ floating shipping containers work for student housing in...
When college students arrive to the big city they often bring with them dreams of glamorous apartments, but they soon get hit the reality of a cramped dorm room covered by student loans or an awkward...
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$1.5B in construction financing secured for Midtown supertall One Vanderbilt
It’s full steam ahead for SL Green‘s new Midtown supertall, One Vanderbilt. Early this morning the developer announced it had closed on $1.5 billion in financing for its 1,401-foot, full-block office...
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Aerial gondola proposed to better connect Staten Island with Manhattan
With subway plans stalling and bus service failing, planners are turning their sites to alternate modes of urban transportation such as ferries and aerial gondolas. The latter has picked up steam over...
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Flood regulations may thwart plan to convert Lower Manhattan public spaces to...
When plans surfaced last March for a rezoning of the Financial District that would allow property owners to bring in retail tenants to the underutilized public plazas and walkways at the base of their...
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FXFOWLE reveals design for $70M Statue of Liberty Museum, complete with green...
Four months after it was announced that FXFOWLE would be designing a new, free-standing museum for the Statue of Liberty, principal architect Nicholas Garrison has revealed renderings of his vision for...
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SL Green breaks ground on One Vanderbilt, NYC’s second tallest tower – see...
Yesterday 6sqft brought you a time-lapse video showing an entire Midtown block being demolished to make way for the 1,401-foot supertall One Vanderbilt. Now with a cleared site—plus $1.5 billion in...
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The Urban Lens: Trel Brock uses double exposure to transform the cityscape...
6sqft’s ongoing series The Urban Lens invites photographers to share work exploring a theme or a place within New York City. In this installment, Trel Brock redefines the city through double exposures...
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Columbia’s DeathLab proposes a suspended cemetery of pods under the Manhattan...
Each decade in the New York metropolitan area about 500,000 people are buried in cemetery plots, taking up a dwindling amount of land and outputting cremation smog into the air. With this growing issue...
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12 experts suggest creative ways to handle 9 million future New Yorkers
With New York City’s population on its way to nine million, the city’s infrastructure may be impressive, but it has its limits–including red tape and resource shortages–that will make it difficult to...
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Proposed Penn Station-topping free-fall ride gets new video, details
When developers at Brooklyn Capital Partners and designers at AE Superlab revealed their proposal to erect the world’s tallest free-fall ride atop Penn Station, it seemed like perhaps a commentary on...
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$70M FXFOWLE-designed Statue of Liberty Museum receives approval
It’s full steam ahead for the FXFOWLE-designed Statue of Liberty Museum. Per the Journal, The National Park service approved plans on Wednesday to erect the free-standing structure on Liberty Island....
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432 Park Avenue will become a beacon of light beginning Monday
Just in case you had trouble spotting the Western Hemisphere’s tallest residential tower, beginning Monday, 432 Park Avenue will debut a brand new lighting feature that will turn the 1,396-foot...
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New York Wheel’s first two pedestals arrive on Staten Island
In early October, the New York Wheel welcomed its four massive legs at the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal in Sunset Park—the first physical components of the project to find their way to NYC. Now...
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Construction update: Pier 55’s 535 concrete columns rise from the Hudson River
Current view of Pier55 site, via 6sqft Now that the Barry Diller-funded Pier 55 offshore park can proceed freely, the Wall Street Journal took a look at how construction is progressing on the $200...
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Renderings revealed for adaptive reuse Maker Park along the Williamsburg...
Plans for Bushwick Inlet Park, a 28-acre open space along an unused industrial stretch of the Williamsburg waterfront, first came about in 2005, when the Bloomberg administration rezoned the area to...
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