The Two Newest Luxury Towers Are a Mood

A daily mix of stories about cities, city life, and our always evolving neighborhoods and skylines. [Curbed]( THURSDAY, AUGUST 3 street view [The Two Newest Luxury Towers Are a Mood]( Charcoal and bronze dominate at Brooklyn’s tallest building and Adjaye’s latest. Photo: Max Touhey for JDS Two dark towers have risen over the skyline, glowering at each other across the East River. On the western bank, David Adjaye’s 130 William Street, a condo in the form of a castle keep, muscles its way into the Financial District’s lineup. A two-mile crow’s flight away in Brooklyn, SHoP’s 9 DeKalb Avenue has its stretch of the stratosphere all to itself, since at 1,066 feet, it makes the rest of the borough’s high-rises look squat. Tall buildings talk to each other across the city’s upper reaches, and this pair proclaims a new mood. We’ve gotten used to a skyline of glass splinters, glistening insouciantly as if all that mattered in architecture were the residents’ views. These newcomers are just as tailored for the wealthy as their silvery-white predecessors and no less concerned with the drama of being on the inside looking out, but they attract attention by absorbing light rather than reflecting it, gazing down on their separate zones with brooding seriousness. They could be auditioning to play Gotham City in the next Batman movie. [Continue reading »]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( The Latest [‘We Can’t Sleep Because of the Worry’ Overnight at the Roosevelt Hotel, where hundreds of migrants are still waiting for somewhere to go.]( By Luis Feliz Leon [The Look Book Goes to the Blade Aqua Lounge Passengers were on their way to the Hamptons, via helicopter and seaplane, for a long weekend.]( By Kelsie Schrader and Jenna Milliner-Waddell [Airbnb Wants to Fix Loneliness With Gwyneth Paltrow And zoning.]( By Clio Chang [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Read More From Curbed]( Introducing The City Desk, a weekly newsletter about New York. [Sign up to get it every Thursday](. [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 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 12th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2023, All rights reserved