Solow's East River Waterfront Moves Forward

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A Whole Foods at this location would make many people (including my wife) very happy. Additionally, the scale is appropriate, given the location. But where are the affordable housing and sustainability components?

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PLEASE Whole Foods, come to the east side.

What gives?

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Oh god...please tell me those vile uninteresting blockks are massing studies!

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Sheldon's buildings are actually pretty sleek. Have you ever seen the sail like sleek curvature of one east river? Makes Macklowe's River Terrace (Now Miraval) look like a dorm with it's small windows and connecting balconies. And Solow constructed One East River in 1988. Think about what he will do today to the East 30's no man's land. It should be in context, but come'on. Everyone there should be jumping for joy. If you don't behave nicely at the meeting, you might make for another decade of being known as Ground Zero North.

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looks like there'll probably be more than a few people upset once their views gets sliced by the towers...

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oh man, again with the affordable housing BS. enough already, pay up or move elsewhere. please put 100% market rate housing on that lot.

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Shelley, Shelley, Shelley. Isn't he getting a bit too old for this stuff?

At least he takes a big personal interest in providing quality buildings.

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Sweet. Looks like a much-needed East side addition. Start the construction!

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I just hope the project somehow makes the streets there different from all the other streets in the surrouding area. All of the new buildings in that area are horrible because they are designed to kill street life. I hope somehow this one is different. Otherwise, this area is dooomed forever and will never have the same vitality that make other neighborhoods of Manhattan so attractive.

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The designs suck! I was expecting better designs for these project like what you see in Dubai.

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Whats all this praise for Dubai, it looks like Houston to me.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/thegreatshadow/288691849/

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The new skyscraper in Dubai looks like something im going to have to blow up in Halo 3.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/yubicc/1349282562/

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^ Wow Dubai looks awesome! Thanks for the pics!

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Yeah they suck. Where is the creative design?

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according to the NY Sun article there would be six skinny towers with upwards of 6,100 apartments. How small will the apts. be if each tower will then have 1,000 plus apts.

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Whole Foods YES! 50 Story buildings NO!

But something needs to go in, maybe if they just lopped off 10 floors or so it would look less like the horribly out of scale Trump International up the street.

Last I heard Meier was doing the apt buildings, and SOM was doing the single office tower.

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These designs are pretty dull, sadly, especially adds nothing great for the skyline. Poor UN, you have new, boring neighbors.

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NIMBYs sucks!

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Oh, poor Brooklynites, their view of where they would be living if they could just afford it has just been spoiled. LOL.

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Each of those buildings on their own are pretty good and I like them better than the fugly buildings they are next to. My only disappointment is the fact that they are all, except for the building to the far left in the picture, around the same height.

It seems you can't build anything in this city over the 50 stories. If one of those towers was near the 70 or 80 stories - I think it would break up and add to the eclectic feel. Introduce a supertall to the site, regardless, the proposed plan is appealing.

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I have learned to tune out irrational nimbys bitching and screaming about tall buildings a long time ago. Hopefully, others will too.

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^ Why are you one of them???