The clocktower, resting here since 1927 and historically famed as “the tallest building in Queens” for 63 years until the Citigroup tower (located .4+ miles away) surpassed it in 1990, is only 14 or 15 stories tall, depending on how you measure the ground floor. So when I saw those dirt outlines I thought, “OK, but what would a 77 story building actually look like?”
I’m sure whatever they propose will be full of lots of steel and glass and absolute lack of creativity or character, but I also thought I’d assist the conversation a bit by showing what the clocktower would look like if it were 77 stories tall, in context with the surrounding neighborhood structures:
Now that just seems silly!
Of course, even these satellite images are not current. There’s been so much construction in recent months that the plot about 1″ to the left of the clocktower at this scale is a future hotel being built currently – what you see here that is just foundation is now some 20+ stories tall (seen in background in video below). So the neighborhood is already scaling up, but 77 stories just seems excessive, even gluttonous.
22 comments:
If it resembles anything, it's akin to morning wood.
I wouldn't worry about how this will impact the area with overcrowding, because this will be another place for billionaire phantom tenants to launder er invest their speculative unearned money or to give their spoiled jellyfish brats a place to hang.
Sorry Jeremiah, this town cannot be saved.
Will removed Queens Library honcho that run Dutch Kills Civic George Stamatiades got his wish 'upzone upzone upzone'
Queens does produce true genius in its leadership.
Affordable housing?
Poor doors?
I can't wait until they start construction so we can see the seedy side of the Queens construction business!
We need one of these in Williamsburg too.
Affordable housing is a joke!!
A familiar TV prescription male enhancement drug warning: "For erections lasting more than 4 hours, please consult your doctor immediately". Unfortunately, builders'' ego erections rise to stay , The $$$$$$$$$$$ an owner can make per square foot ,being the only design design consideration, become a blot on the sky plane for a very long time to come.
because this will be another place for billionaire phantom tenants.
ya sure, how about Asian tech drones.
I like the shadow. Nice touch.
ya sure, how about Asian tech drones
Tech drones aren't just Asian. A lot of them are the self-absorbed narcissitic millenial cretin collective of generation gentrification. They encompass all races and are only content if everything is done for them so they don't have to leave their apt. or even move their limbs. The hours they are willing to work are going to set back labor negotiating a hundred years.
https://medium.com/matter/the-shut-in-economy-ec3ec1294816
Sticks out for 30 miles like the Robert Moses Jones Beach water tower.
Look at it as Queens ultimate monument to taking "the shaft" in the ass at gunpoint.
The MTA, disgusting doped up Mayor and Katz should be ashamed of themselves.
This will NEVER be affordable housing in the end because big money apparently talks good !!
Build it and they will come. LOL! Asian tech drones or subleases from billionaire landlords, it will get filled and so will the transit system. Congestion at the plaza is at its peak. Let go for broke. Clog that artery!
That is right in the takeoff pathway of LaGuardia Airport!!!! Will FAA put a stop to this????
BTW, the shadow is going in the wrong direction, it should be over the rail yards (yes the part they want to roof over) and blocking Suna's block buster on the waterfront to say nothing about all the buildings on Queens Plaza.
So perhaps the Clock Tower building is, as we suspect, nothing to do with preserving a community's heritage, but as a possible foil for the blockbuster (which I do hope will get built - for its the last opportunity to wake up that community in western Queens that seems to have become the proving lab for so much that is just wrong).
And yes, you talk to anyone in the tech industry, Indians and Chinese are preferred over Americans as they work for a pittance.
One of the reasons the politicians want tech industry. The workers simply will eat and sleeep and care nothing of the community or politics, and the firms that employ them will be a grand source for that ever growing appetite for donations.
Which means, in the final analysis, our government will be catering to the needs of a shadowy army of drones while the needs of its residents will be ignored.
But hell, they do that already.
Just what's needed, a giant Cleopatra's needle up our bung holes!
Just what's needed, a giant Cleopatra's needle up our bung holes!
Come on hack you can do better than that.
http://queens.brownstoner.com/2015/03/new-rendering-shows-how-skyscraper-will-dwarf-the-lic-clock-tower/
FYI
Oops, I must have touched a sensitive nerve inside of "Hack Attack's" sphincter. Or else that's Jimmy Van Bramer using that handle. Wrap your hands around that one, councilman.
Yeah, sit on it, "Hack Attack". That guy's gotta be a developer's shill.
Oooh....aahhh. Ouch! No Vaseline?
Yeah, sit on it, "Hack Attack". That guy's gotta be a developer's shill.
Yes, and probably works for a politician for his day job.
Yeah, giving hand jobs as his day job.
Pretty sure the proposed tower is significantly taller than that, too, since it's floors are taller
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