In only a month after opening, New York’s most expensive private development is already falling apart.
If you look up from your phone camera for a second before you take a selfie of the Vessel, you’re bound to see something broken at Hudson Yards.
Hudson Yards bills itself as New York’s newest neighborhood, however it reflects many of the shortcomings of the city’s prior superblock development projects.
The original World Trade Center’s Austin J. Tobin Plaza was an enclosure of skyscrapers along the Hudson River, inadvertently creating a brutal wind tunnel. Hudson Yards is much the same.
Brooklyn’s MetroTech Center lacked a unified vision with its variety pack of 90s-fad architecture and is today largely unremarkable. Hudson Yards developer Related Companies took a similar approach, commissioning numerous so-called “starchitects” to build what New York Times Architecture critic Micheal Kimmelman describes as an “architectural petting zoo.”
But Hudson Yards also appears to have created their own problems, particularly with the build quality of the development.
One day, this is going to be exposed as the Titanic of hyperdevelopment.
It's ironic that Hudson Yards already looks like a distressed area.
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I can see from the photo this paving block was a shit job.
Perhaps one of the worst I seen.
Just wait till winter when freezing water seeps in and really displaces it..
@Gino
I am waiting to see how those towers will withstand the next hurricane.
That pile of steel walkway will need $$$millions in annual mainenamce.
@ JQ LLC
Built like shit like the new crap in Northern Europe and now London
All the telephone, CAT5 Hubs, utility's, elevator control HVAC, are in the basement rack rooms like eggs in one basket.
Yep, one good hurricane and all them people are up shit creek for months, years. --and that's if this Mickey Mouse junk is still standing.
And now for the worst part:
Remember all hurricane relieve money the city stole and hid away? That money & bank interest intended to help taxpayers rebuild is being held in case of emergency to convey and re-distribute too pay for this shit. Just like free insurance.
Thank you Gino for that crucial prognosis. It's all falling into place
These people are claiming to be progressive too.
Typical of millenials, all inspiration, no perspiration, all hat, no cattle
Any developer working in NYC knows the deal: get $millions of tax credits to build cheap shit--- and then run!
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