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Megaprojects

What does a good megadevelopment look like?

Considering the future of megaprojects—and the future of New York City—through the lens of Sunnyside Yard

See the incredible views from Hudson Yards’s sky-high observation deck

The highest observation deck in the Western Hemisphere is now open to thrill-seeking visitors.

How to get tickets to Edge, the Hudson Yards observation deck

The sky-high attraction at 30 Hudson Yards opens to the public on March 11

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How to get tickets to Vessel, the climbable Hudson Yards sculpture

You’ll need a free timed ticket to access Thomas Heatherwick’s climbable "public landmark"

TF Cornerstone reveals renderings for Pacific Park mixed-users, public park

The two buildings, designed by Handel Architects, will have some 800 apartments between them

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A guide to the major megaprojects transforming New York City

Entire stretches of New York City are giving rise to new and recreated neighborhoods, from the World Trade Center to Willets Point.

Yet another Essex Crossing building has topped out

The 14-story office/condo building on Broome Street is expected to open in 2021

The status of the World Trade Center complex, 18 years later

On the 18th anniversary of 9/11, check in on the progress at the World Trade Center

New looks at TF Cornerstone’s massive Hunter’s Point South rentals

The Long Island City buildings, designed by ODA New York, will have nearly 1,200 apartments—more than half of which will be permanently affordable.

Halletts Point megaproject launches first rental from $2,150/month

10 Halletts Point brings more than 400 apartments to the Astoria waterfront

Crown Heights megaproject could bring 800 affordable apartments to Brooklyn

The project at 960 Franklin Avenue near the Brooklyn Botanic Garden would be divided evenly between market-rate and affordable apartments.

Brookfield presses forward with Manhattan West’s next big office tower

The 2 million square foot building is expected to be complete by 2022

6 crucial ways New York City’s landscape will change in 2019

What to expect from New York’s transit, parks, megaprojects and more in the coming year.

Hudson Yards’s first affordable housing lottery offers apartments from $858/month

107 affordable apartments are up for grabs within 15 Hudson Yards

Waterline Square’s affordable apartments now up for grabs

More than 250 units in the Upper West Side complex are now in the NYC affordable housing lottery.

Hudson Yards wants to become NYC’s next great neighborhood

The neighborhood on Manhattan’s far west side represents a vision of the city’s future—but will New Yorkers buy into it?

Essex Crossing’s second phase comes into focus

By the end of this year, much of the Lower East Side megaproject’s first phase will be complete.

Greenpoint Landing’s 30-story luxury rental launches leasing

One Blue Slip, the megaproject’s first exclusively market-rate rental, has apartments from $2,600/month

NYC’s new waterfront parks represent the erasure of its industrial past

The old working waterfront has almost completely disappeared as the city realizes its new vision for the coastline.

Hudson Yards’s tallest tower tops out at 1,296 feet

30 Hudson Yards is now officially the tallest tower within the Hudson Yards megaproject.

See the transformation of Williamsburg’s Domino Park

The park, designed by the same firm behind the High Line, is one of the first pieces of the larger Domino megaproject.

Extell’s first Brooklyn condo launches sales from $837K

The megadeveloper’s first foray into Brooklyn is as luxurious as you’d expect

Hallett’s Point megaproject’s first rental gets fresh renderings, teaser site

Leasing on the 405 apartments will kick off this summer

15 Hudson Yards tops out as megaproject preps for spring 2019 debut

Hudson Yards is on track to open next March

New looks at Hallett’s Point’s first rental tower, due to open this summer

The megaproject’s first building, 10 Halletts Point, will have 405 apartments and a brand new grocery store.

18 things New Yorkers can look forward to in 2018

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Essex Crossing rental will be named for Sonny Rollins, rent from $3,150/month

The jazz legend inspired the name of 145 Clinton Street

Hudson Yards’s 1,100-foot-high observation deck will get high-end restaurant

British hospitality company Rhubarb will operate the 10,000-square-foot public space, due to open in 2019.

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Tour the new dougnut-shaped rental at the former Domino Sugar Factory

325 Kent Avenue is the first of several new developments at this historic Brooklyn site.

Essex Crossing’s first phase nears completion as its last building tops out

The building formerly known as site two, aka 115 Delancey Street, has now topped out.

First of seven buildings tops out at Astoria’s Halletts Point megaproject

The Queens megaproject will eventually bring 2,000 new apartments to the Astoria waterfront.

Essex Crossing preps for residents with new interactive website

The Lower East Side megaproject will welcome its first residents in the fall, and a new website provides all the information they’d (theoretically) need.

Williamsburg’s Domino Sugar redevelopment unleashes its first rentals

Five years after Two Trees acquired the Domino Sugar Refinery site, its first apartments at 325 Kent Avenue are officially up for grabs.

Astoria’s Hallett’s Point megaproject delivers on grocery store promise

It’s been a bumpy year for the Durst Organization’s seven-building Astoria megaproject, but it’s moving forward—and a new grocery store is part of the plan.

Domino redevelopment’s new COOKFOX-designed tower, revealed

The 42-story mixed-use building will rise at the northernmost end of the Williamsburg megaproject, and bring more than 300 apartments to the development.

Jersey City megaproject seeks to create a new arts district in Journal Square

The mixed-use buildings will include a theater, exhibit space, and a public promonade.

Brooklyn's LICH megaproject rebrands as 'River Park'

As developer Fortis Property Group moves forward with plans for the Boerum Hill megaproject, it’s revealed a new moniker for the development that’s a call-out to its location.

The creation of Essex Crossing, from slum to SPURA to city-backed megaproject

The long-vacant plot of land once known as SPURA is on its way to remaking the Lower East Side; this is its history.

7 crucial ways New York City's landscape will change in 2017

The next year is poised to be a big one, with plenty of new developments moving forward, skyscrapers rising, and more changes to NYC’s landscape.