The site has been fully currently cleared of its previous buildings and is awaiting the start of excavation. Join Facebook to connect with Adam Guso and others you may know. We look forward to many more improvements through this innovative program in the future.” “Zoning for Accessibility shows what the MTA can accomplish as we use every tool available to accelerate projects-in this case partnerships with the City of New York and developers to include station improvements in their investments.
“These improvements are a historic milestone in our efforts to improve the transit system for all riders through faster and cheaper capital work,” said president of MTA construction and development Jamie Torres-Springer. “This agreement is proof that the MTA’s historic Capital Plan, along with partnering with private developers, will allow the Authority to modernize the entire transit system as quickly and efficiently as possible,” said MTA acting chair and CEO Janno Lieber. “The MTA is committed to making our transit system more accessible to all New Yorkers, especially riders with mobility disabilities, seniors, and parents of young children.” The City Planning Commission approved the plans on December 1, 2021. In this case, 41-47 West 57th Street would get 53,029 square feet of added floor space. This allowance is part of a recently approved change in a zoning law, called Zoning For Accessibility, through which developers can obtain up to 20 percent more square footage through public contributions. One elevator will be located at the southwestern corner of West 56th Street and Sixth Avenue, and the second will connect the underground mezzanine to the platform. In exchange, the developer will be allowed one acre of extra floor space. In recent news, Sedesco is expected to build two new elevators for the nearby 57th Street subway station along Sixth Avenue, servicing the local F train, to make it fully accessible under the Americans with Disabilities Act. The skyscraper will rise from a plot between Fifth and Sixth Avenues and will have frontage along both West 57th and West 58th Streets.
Designed by OMA and developed by Sedesco, the 63-story, 443,000-square-foot tower will yield 119 residential units spread across 237,000 square feet, a 158-room hotel spanning 205,100 square feet on floors two through 20, and a 10,212-square-foot restaurant. At number 11 on our construction countdown is 41-47 West 57th Street, an 1,100-foot-tall mixed-use skyscraper on Billionaires’ Row in Midtown.
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