It's been a year. But developers and builders continued to push skyline-, neighborhood-, and city-changing projects forward
Photo: ArX Solutions, The Durst Organization/Giles Ashford, JDS Development Group/Crown, Diamond Schmitt Architects, OMA Even as this stop-and-start year progressed — vaccines and reopenings and a return to something that felt kind of like normal life, followed by variants, supply-chain issues, and a wave of cancellations — real-estate plans churned along. Developers and builders continued to push skyline-, neighborhood-, and city-changing projects forward.
Photo: The Durst Organization/Giles Ashford Skyline Tower and Sven, LIC: Long Island City’s tallest and second-tallest towers both wrapped up construction during the second half of 2021. Skyline Tower, a condo and the neighborhood’s tallest structure at 778 feet, is the more generic of the two, designed by Hill West Architects and developed by United Construction & Development, FSA Capital and Risland US.
2551 Broadway, Upper West Side: Another looming, utterly unexceptional Extell tower in a sea of looming, utterly unexceptional Extell towers. After building two contentious towers — the 38-story Ariel East and the 32-story Ariel West — on Broadway near 99th Street in the mid-aughts, Gary Barnett has continued to throw up glass tower after glass tower on the Upper West Side.
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