The Supertalls Have Walled In Central Park

A daily mix of stories about cities, city life, and our always evolving neighborhoods and skylines. [Curbed]( thursday, april 4 street view [The Supertalls Have Walled In Central Park]( Even from deep inside the park, the supertalls are impossible to not see. [CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK, USA - SEPTEMBER 15, 2023. Sightseeing tourists waiting to take photos for social media in a popular viewpoint in Central Park]( [CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK, USA - SEPTEMBER 15, 2023. Sightseeing tourists waiting to take photos for social media in a popular viewpoint in Central Park]( Photo: Clare Jackson/Alamy Stock Photo Just about every week for 30 years, I’ve paused in the middle of Central Park to look over its expanse at the stockade of towers to the south: copper-roofed Beaux-Arts palaces, Art Deco ziggurats, mid-century slabs, twiggy condos, tapering glass Alps. The cluster has grown and thickened in that time; I’ve watched at least 15 of those skyscrapers go up, lined up like telephone poles. There are more on the way. Foster + Partner’s JP Morgan headquarters at 270 Park Avenue, a full ten blocks south and a quarter-mile high, is still unfinished, but its beefy bulk is already overweening. Snøhetta’s 50 West 66th Street leads a flanking maneuver up the West Side. This latest generation of megabuildings represents something more radical than incremental growth: a system of global financing and advances in engineering that are redefining the word tall. They herald real estate’s next sky grab, the race to raise the steel-and-glass cliff of midtown until Central Park begins to feel less like an oasis and more like a base camp. The city is closing in. [Continue reading »]( Want more on city life, real estate, and design? [Subscribe now]( to save over 40% on unlimited access to Curbed and everything New York. [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( The Latest [An Upper East Side Synagogue’s New Mansion The Altneu, whose board includes bankers, CEOs, and a Blackstone executive, recently bought the Thomas Lamont house for $34.5 million.]( By Adriane Quinlan [When the NYC Subway Was Just a Dirt Trench Rare photos from the early 1900s show the 120-year-old system’s pick-and-shovel beginnings.]( By Christopher Bonanos [Some Actually Nice-Looking Small-Space Storage Solutions A slim cart, a felted bin, and a tiny little table with endless uses.]( By Ming Thompson [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Read More From Curbed]( [Sign up to get The Listings Edit](, a weekly digest of the most worth-it apartments in New York. [GET THE NEWSLETTER]( [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe]( | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1701 Rhode Island Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2024, All rights reserved