Give a high-five to the Super Talls — the city’s next generation of cloudbusting towers, shown here as a thundering herd.
Love them or hate them, the nine giants in this composite created for The Post by development-happy website New York YIMBY (Yes In My Back Yard) are all under construction. Not included: projects that reached their full height last year or are still at the demolition stage. Some are already lifting their heads visibly skyward. Others are rarin’ to rise from foundations.
They aren’t mere proposals, but fully financed done deals — an illustration of how New York City has gone skyscraper-mad. All are at least 900 feet high; six will stand 1,000 feet and up. By comparison, One World Trade Center is 1,776 feet tall including the mast (1,368-foot roof height); the Empire State Building, 1,454 feet to the top of the spire; One Bryant Park, 1,200 feet; and the Chrysler Building, 1,046 feet.
220 Central Park South
Architect Robert A.M. Stern’s 950-footer is limestone-clad. Developer Vornado is spending a total $1.3 billion, not including land costs, to erect the 65-story all-residential tower with 118 luxury condos, half of which have been pre-sold. A total sellout will bring in $3 billion. Hedge funder Ken Griffin is reportedly buying three connecting units for a total $220 million. Completion: 2018.
35 Hudson Yards
One of Related Companies and Oxford Properties Group’s several towers going up on the Far West Side railyard site, 35 Hudson Yards at 11th Avenue and West 33rd Street will rise to 1,009 feet and 72 stories. The mixed-use project designed by David Childs and SOM will include 137 luxury condos, offices, stores, an Equinox-branded hotel, fitness club and Soul Cycle. Completion: 2019.
175 Greenwich St. (3 World Trade Center)
British architect Richard Rogers designed this striking, 1,079 foot-tall, 80-story office edifice for Silverstein Properties. The Tower has risen to about 50 stories. Media/advertising company GroupM has leased 700,000 square feet of a total 2.5 million square feet of office floors. There will be a 300,000-square-foot shopping mall at the base. Completion: 2018.
30 Hudson Yards
Related/Oxford’s tallest project at the Yards, designed by KPF Associates, will reach 90 stories and 1,296 feet. Its 2.6 million square feet of offices have already been claimed by Time Warner, KKR and Wells Fargo Securities, all of which will own their floors as commercial condominiums. Completion: 2019.
217 W. 57th St.
This rendering from YIMBY is the most detailed yet of Extell’s long-awaited, so-called Central Park Tower designed by architects Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill. Its 130-floor, 1,550-foot height makes it easily the city’s tallest residential structure and loftier than One World Trade Center’s roof. The city’s first Nordstrom department store has signed a lease to occupy the first seven floors. Above it will be approximately 130 super-luxe condo apartments. Completion: 2019.
111 W. 57th St.
The skinny, shimmering, 1,428-footer will stand a mere 58 feet wide above a 50,000-square-foot retail base incorporating the former Steinway Hall, where interior demolition has begun. Foundation work is also under way. The project by JDS Development Group and Property Markets Group will have just 60 apartments on 80 floors. SHoP Architects clad it in glass, terra cotta and bronze filigree. Units will run $8,000 per square foot. Completion: 2018.
53 W. 53rd St.
Project led by developer Hines is finally under way after 10 years of planning and design changes. The 82-story, 1,050-foot-tall tower will be all-condo except for three new floors of galleries for next-door neighbor MoMA. Architect Jean Nouvel devised a striking “diagrid” facade of exposed structural metal and glass. Apartments will cost from $3 million to $70 million. Completion: 2018.
1 Manhattan West
Brookfield is completing the foundation for its first office tower over the West Side rail yard at Ninth Avenue and West 33rd Street. It will stand 67 stories and 995 feet. Law firm Skadden Arps has leased 550,000 of a total 2.1 million square feet. The lobby will connect with a two-story retail component. Completion: fourth quarter of 2019.
15 Hudson Yards
Related and Oxford are laying the foundation for this 910-footer right next to the High Line at 11th Avenue and West 30th Street. Its 70 stories are to include a total 391 rental and condo apartments and a residents’ fitness center by Equinox. Architects are Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Rockwell. Completion: 2018.