Quadriad Realty is planning a four-tower apartment complex straddling Broadway near 190th Street south of Fort Tryon Park.
It made a presentation January 5 before the land use committee of Community Board 12, according to an article in the January 7, 2011 edition of Manhattan Times by Gloria Pazmino.
"According to CB12 District Manager Ebenezer Smith, who has been in talks with the developer and coordinated the meeting, the presentation is preliminary, and the project has not been approved by the city's Department of City Planning," the article said, adding that the project would also "renovate the Broadway entrance and tunnel for the 191st Street 1-train station."
"The developer has not received approval from city planning and they will need to receive some variances," said Smith.
According to an article by Carla Zanoni at DNAinfo.com today, "the proposed construction site at 190th Street and Broadway is also located near the highest geographical point in Manhattan, giving any skyscraper built there additional heft in the city skyline." That article indicated that the complex would have towers of 23, 33, 39 and 42 stories.
The Bridge Tower Apartments near the George Washington Bridge consists of four 32-stories building.
The rendering at the right from the developer's website indicates that the towers would be slanted and that some of them would have connecting skybridges. The website noted that the project would have parking for 450 cars.
The DNAinfo article indicated that Quadriad has two plans for the site and that the larger plan would include almost 200 "affordable" rental apartments out of a total of about 650, while a smaller plan would have no affordable units and about 216 "standard rate apartments."
"Depending on which plan they move forward with," the article said that "Quadriad's development might also include the renovation of the 191st Street 1 train station entrance, a complicated station that includes a three-block-long pedestrian tunnel from Broadway to the train and a long elevator ride up from the 180-foot-below subway station."
It made a presentation January 5 before the land use committee of Community Board 12, according to an article in the January 7, 2011 edition of Manhattan Times by Gloria Pazmino.
"According to CB12 District Manager Ebenezer Smith, who has been in talks with the developer and coordinated the meeting, the presentation is preliminary, and the project has not been approved by the city's Department of City Planning," the article said, adding that the project would also "renovate the Broadway entrance and tunnel for the 191st Street 1-train station."
"The developer has not received approval from city planning and they will need to receive some variances," said Smith.
According to an article by Carla Zanoni at DNAinfo.com today, "the proposed construction site at 190th Street and Broadway is also located near the highest geographical point in Manhattan, giving any skyscraper built there additional heft in the city skyline." That article indicated that the complex would have towers of 23, 33, 39 and 42 stories.
The Bridge Tower Apartments near the George Washington Bridge consists of four 32-stories building.
The rendering at the right from the developer's website indicates that the towers would be slanted and that some of them would have connecting skybridges. The website noted that the project would have parking for 450 cars.
The DNAinfo article indicated that Quadriad has two plans for the site and that the larger plan would include almost 200 "affordable" rental apartments out of a total of about 650, while a smaller plan would have no affordable units and about 216 "standard rate apartments."
"Depending on which plan they move forward with," the article said that "Quadriad's development might also include the renovation of the 191st Street 1 train station entrance, a complicated station that includes a three-block-long pedestrian tunnel from Broadway to the train and a long elevator ride up from the 180-foot-below subway station."
Architecture Critic
Carter Horsley
Since 1997, Carter B. Horsley has been the editorial director of CityRealty. He began his journalistic career at The New York Times in 1961 where he spent 26 years as a reporter specializing in real estate & architectural news. In 1987, he became the architecture critic and real estate editor of The New York Post.
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