![]() ![]() New York can absorb even this, I tell myself. ( You can read about him here.)Įach time I approach, I feel a volatile mix of wonder and dejection roil in my chest. It’s a one-shot, supersized virtual city-state, plugged into a global metropolis but crafted to the specifications of a single boss: Related’s chairman, Stephen Ross. Besides being big, Hudson Yards represents something fundamentally new to New York. When the rest of it is finished - when the remaining rectangle of exposed rail yards between 11th and 12th Avenues is covered by a deck and more residential towers - the whole 28-acre shebang will be bigger than the United Nations, the World Trade Center, or Rockefeller Center and physically vaster, more populous, and more expensive than any private development in the country. On March 15, after 12 years of planning and six of construction, the Related Companies (which is actually just one mammoth real-estate company) will open the gates to its new $25 billion enclave, an agglomeration of supertall office towers full of lawyers and hedge-funders, airborne eight-figure apartments, a 720,000-square-foot shopping zone, and a gaggle of star-chef restaurants. An adventurous few will be able to take a dedicated elevator even further up to the pointed peak, don a harness, climb out on a catwalk in the open air, and howl into the wind. The space won’t open for another year, but I can already see the over-the-top weddings in the party room upstairs, where guests can dance far, far above the stink and mess below. I can behold the widescreen, high-res view of a New York more orderly and wondrous than the one most of us live in. From here - or better yet, from the set of bleachers that allows you to peer over the glass railing - I can look down on the Empire State Building. That’s the outdoor observation deck, which juts out 65 feet and comes to a point 1,100 feet above the street. At a distance, the tallest looks like a high-browed robotic duck with a beak so generous you could almost land a helicopter on it. Jagged and reflective, the five new towers have a high-definition clarity that the physical world mostly lacks. On a day when the cold makes the skyline snap into focus as if you’re seeing it through new lenses, Hudson Yards seems more virtual than real. "Bankrupt Neiman Marcus to vacate the Hudson Yards mall in New York". "Hudson Yards, From the Pits to the Heights". ^ Fabricant, Florence (March 5, 2019)."Thomas Keller to Open an American Restaurant in Hudson Yards Megaproject". "Neiman Marcus is shrinking the store it's building in Manhattan". ^ Fickenscher, Lisa (September 14, 2017).Here are all the major buildings in the $25 billion neighborhood". "Hudson Yards is the biggest New York development since Rockefeller Center. "6 crucial ways New York City's landscape will change in 2019". ^ "Hudson Yards retail gets underway with one of biggest steel orders in US history"."Hudson Yards Construction Rolls On As Retail Center Rises". "Tracking the biggest buildings taking shape at Hudson Yards". "Hudson Yards retail gets underway, with construction and marketing set to begin at Far West Side site this month". ^ a b Morris, Keiko (September 3, 2014).^ "20 Hudson Yards by Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF)".The former Neiman Marcus is slated to be converted to office space. The Neiman Marcus closed in 2020 as part of a plan to close 24 locations nationwide, having been open only for 16 months. The mall is anchored by Dior and Chanel, with "a ' Fifth Avenue' mix of shops", such as H&M, Zara, and Sephora below them. There is fine dining on the fifth through seventh floors as well as more casual fare on the second through fourth floors. Chef and restaurateur Thomas Keller has opened a restaurant in the complex, in addition to selecting 11 other restaurants in the retail space. The Neiman Marcus store occupied the top three levels and one-fourth of the mall, or 250,000 square feet (23,000 m 2). The retail space, designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox and Elkus Manfredi Architects with a connection to the bases of 10 and 30 Hudson Yards, started construction in June 2015, with a 100,000 short tons (91,000,000 kg) order of steel, one of the largest such orders in the history of the United States. In September 2014, Neiman Marcus signed to become the anchor tenant of the Hudson Yards Retail Space. It has 1 million square feet (93,000 m 2) of space, including 750,000 square feet (70,000 m 2) in retail, including department stores, containing one of the Manhattan’s newest neighborhood with very diverse shops. The Shops & Restaurants at Hudson Yards is an upscale indoor shopping mall in New York City, located at 20 Hudson Yards, at 33rd Street and Tenth Avenue, within the Hudson Yards complex in Midtown Manhattan. ![]()
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