Sunday, November 25, 2007

Visions of the NYC West Side Yards

A storefront at the corner of Vanderbilt Avenue and 43rd Street (across from Grand Central) may be a window into the future of the West Side Rail Yards.

The MTA unveiled an exhibition of the five proposals to redevelop the rail yards on the Far West Side of Manhattan, and the public will get a chance to see the models every day through December 3. And what's more, the MTA wants the public's comments.

The proposals comes from five developers/developer-teams: Brookfield Properties; Durst & Vornado; Extell; Related, Goldman Sachs & News Corporation; and Tishman Speyer & Morgan Stanley.

All have common themes: Glass skyscrapers for residential and commercial use, green space, green buildings, cultural areas, ways to integrate the High Line.(more here)

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