By Matt Chaban 5/30 12:05pm

Machers

The new towers. (Wikimedia, TRD)

Threesome! Larry Silverstein Planning Another Super-Tall Apartment Tower on the Far West Side

The boom is back on the Far West Side.

In addition to the Related Companies and Brookfield’s work at Hudson Yards, and now Extell’s reappearance on the scene, Larry Silverstein is moving forward with a new 60-story residential tower on West 40th Street, according to The Real Deal. It will be on the same block as Mr. Silverstein’s twinned Silver Towers, which also rise to 60 stories, which should make for an interesting trio on the skyline. Read More

By Matt Chaban 5/03 10:50am

Bizarritecture

NewYork_big

Durst Fetner Waits for Its BIG Moment: West 57th Excavation Begins But No Groundbeaking for Pyramid Planned

Curbed stumbled on Durst Fetner’s closely watched site on West 57th Street and the Hudson, and our blogging comrades discovered that excavation is underway at the site. The Observer has been eagerly awaiting a groundbreaking ceremony, set to coincide with the developers filing for a rezoning to transform the site from a bland four-story box into the dramatic pyramid apartments designed by Danish wunderkind Bjarke Ingels. It appears Durst Fetner is going the quiet route for the time being on the project known as West 57. Read More

By Matt Chaban 4/26 11:38am

Machers

Would you live here? (Bing Maps)

Silverstein Beats Vornado to the Port Authority Punch Again, Proposes New Bus Terminal on West 39th Street

Correction: A reader points out that this is simply a bus garage, not a bus station, and the Port Authority Bus Terminal would remain in operation. The Observer regrets the error.

The Port Authority has been desperate to replace its eponymous bus terminal near Times Square for at least a decade now. Vornado Realty was supposed to build a new office tower atop the terminal, which it would rebuild in the process, but after years of planning, that proposal collapsed.

Now, it turns out Larry Silverstein has quietly floated a plan to build a new terminal on West 39th Street, according to Crain’s, near the mouth of the Lincoln Tunnel, atop which Mr. Silversterin would build a new residential building. Read More

By Matt Chaban 1/12 11:47am

Mr. Ross' Neighborhood

Hudson Yard_Aerial from south

Danny Meyer Taking Over Hudson Yards, the World

As if there was not enough anticipation surrounding the construction of Hudson Yards, here is probably the one reason to trump any other: Danny Meyer will be setting up shop on the Far West Side.

The Related Companies and Union Square Hospitality announced a new partnership today, whereby Steve Ross and his globetrotting development company will take a stake in Union Square Events. While not encompassing all of the restauranteurs operations, USE offers more than just catering but also runs the sports venue operations for Mr. Meyers sprawling eatery empire, and now it will do even more. So no fine dining, necessarily, but Mr. Meyer will be offering a range of culinary options, from private residential dining to catering events in Hudson Yards buildings as well as operating restaurants and outdoor cafes. Read More

By Guelda Voien 11/22/11 2:30pm

The Power Broker

From Far West Side to... Scarsdale?

Winick Realty’s Far West Side Shepherd

Steven Baker built a life, and staked his career, on the Far West Side of Manhattan at a time when the High Line still languished as an abandoned freight track and nearly every block west of Ninth Avenue included a warehouse, garage or parking lot.

While other brokers followed dollar signs in Midtown and across Madison Avenue, Mr. Baker, then a young broker living in a Ninth Avenue bachelor pad, saw potential in the dusty warehouses and loading docks he walked past in the summer of 2000.

“I knew I wanted to control the neighborhood,” recalled the 40-year-old Mr. Baker, now a managing partner at Winick Realty, who has played a leading role in transforming the area. Read More

By Elise Knutsen 7/27/11 4:32pm

Manhattan Transfers

It takes a lot to tackle The Diesel. (Fat Pickled)

Running Back John Riggins Scores $1 M. on West 39th Street

The midtown apartment of outlandish Redskins running back John “The Diesel” Riggins has been intercepted. The NFL player turned actor/sports commentator is just as famous for telling Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor to “Lighten up, Sandy, baby,” at a dinner in 1985 (before passing out under the table during a speech by then-Vice President George Bush) as for his record as a running back with the Jets and ‘Skins. Read More