@@wilhelmheinzerling5341 Olympic construction is infamous for demolishing and razing entire neighborhoods and displacing its people, almost always poorer people at that. There's a laundry list of controversies and other reasons why hosting the Olympic games actually really sucks for cities. See Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. And the amount of public money that cities spend BEGGING the IOC to come to their cities should be a crime.
I live in high rise with floor to ceiling windows (I think the first real pic of the project was taken from it) and cleaning the windows is pretty rare (once or twice a year max).
WTC 110 well the original wtc towers had self cleaning window washers. Lol one World Trade Center still needs window washers which one incident one washer almost fell off
New York vs Chicago which city is better vore here. Chicago vs New York Race for the skies ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2e1ojG5f-Cc.html
What an incredible contribution to an already iconic and growing city. I remember seeing the development during my vacation there, walking the highline, without even knowing what I was looking at!
NYC is awesome. Although what you see in this video is Manhattan only. One thing the video mislead in. Nothing in Midtown Manhattan can be counted as new. This is only a vacant parcel to build something new in.
In the mid 70's to the mid 80's I knew Manhattan island like the back of my hand. Countless little nooks and crannies, alleyways, and waterfront areas we explored. With most of it long gone I wish I had recorded it. We took it for granted that it would always be that way. It is astonishing that NYC could possibly have changed that drastically in 30 or 40 years. I suppose I should not be surprised, change is what New York City is all about. But I go there now and I almost don't know where I'm at ! It is the old waterfront I most miss.
The large and popular cities are like living cells that grow higher and wider. The city has a *mind of it's own.* It wants to move people, to sell them things and to create productivity. It's like a giant machine for creating and spending. A very curious machine :-)
I agree - New York City is a living, breathing entity. The people are more like cells living in a host. The individual cells can do nothing to change the overall entity, they are just along for the ride. Eventually, some cells tire out and move to New Jersey! :)
Thanks for this comprehensive summary of Hudson Yards. It allows one to see how all these various elements work together to create something entirely new. The past is composed of singular developments that don’t necessarily compliment or function collectively.
This was a great move for the City of New York, the residents, community and the United States. When we begin to look at spaces differently an entire new way to build and live opens up. Respectfully, Scott
You do realize that there is no toll towards New Jersey direction on the Lincoln Tunnel, Holland Tunnel, Bayonne Bridge, Goethals Bridge, and the Outerbridge Crossing is so they leave and never come back right?
Sir Eddie who are you talking to? but this also makes no sense New Jersey has a ton of tolls once you get onto any highway from NYC... I would know I'm from Brooklyn and pay a ton of tolls in NJ.
I think it’s a conspiracy fabricated by the owners of video rental stores and diners. It costs money to get to NY, then it’s free to exit back to New Jersey, but once you get there it’s too expensive to drive around. Then all people do is sit at home, watch Clerks and Mallrats, and eat leftover Disco Fries.
My wife and I missed our station and ended up at the Hudson yards station 4 years ago, end of the line and the only people were a few homeless. Impressed to see what it's becoming
You'll have to be super rich to afford anything there. No poor, no middle class, no students, artists, or strivers? I'd hardly call that a New York "neighborhood". More like Dubai-on-Hudson.
Noodle Mango My poi-nt is that HY will not be a new NYC style "neighborhood" as claimed in the video. It will be a collection of buildings without the diverse retail and human elements that make it a neighborhood. Another Riverside South or Battery Park City. An adjunct to New York rather than a part of it. Will the college have student housing?
Nothing more to say. Correct. Looks like the superrich are going to get their own piece of New York. A gated community in one of the densest populated areas in the world.
Vlad Pootin It's for the super rich and not your average New Yorker. Average people keep getting displaced all over NYC; now even Harlem is getting gentrified. Nice project here, until you come to terms that all these developments are only meant for SOME people..that's far from spectacular.
Hello! Are you planning on making video or is there any that explains the engineering of the sky deck? It would be so interesting. I am searching the web and haven't found anything about yet.
I watch your videos with great fascination. Could you make a video on how to build a micro city state - like Monaco or Macau. How are the these tiny cities able to cram so many people and buildings and still manage to avoid choking traffic, swarms of people and any inkling of an overcrowded cities
Plus, it blocks the view of the Empire State Building, once the magnificent centerpiece of NYC Manhattan Island, from directly across the Hudson, in New Jersey! Very sad, indeed...many people left upset, and angry, too. Oh well, I guess that's progress, or, life goes on. : (
put the cap on the CBE ! cross bronx expressway . use new land from cap project to build affordable housing. put a cap on RR tracks, north park ave line - bronx, 132 st -190 st. use land for affordable housing. build on the long island sound " A florida keys style overseas highway " . this will relieve the CBE
If San Francisco, San Jose, and New York City built enough new housing that ordinary people who make less than 50K a year could live there, it would increase the GDP of the United States by almost 10%. Look it up.
not really thats fake first of all building affordable housing in cities like those will cause the developers too lose a lot of money and that will pose a great impact on the company and companies that could build massive projects like this have a very big influence to the economy then the gdp will fall and many smaller companies will go bankrupt or lose a lot of money and falls lower.the price of construction in cities like those are too expensive to be affordable one method the can use is build in poor places but whats the point in that
Pan Werv I don’t think that’s true at all. Building more expensive housing only allows for wealthy residents to move in. It further alienates the middle class citizens that the city depends on. The same thing is happening in San Francisco. Too much unaffordable housing is being built, and middle class workers like teachers and store employees are pushed out of their city forced to commute from hours away. It’s exactly opposite of what the economy needs.
CrimpyGummybear Every year NYC invests massive sums of money to improving their transportation infrastructure to decrease commuting times. If it wasn't for all these wealthy residents moving in there would be less funding for all these transportation projects in the works right now. In the long run this is a good thing. The act of creating more housing doesnt push anyone out. Having more wealthy residents live in your city is generally a good thing as well.
You’d think they could use stack effect towers for cooling/ventilating the rail yard instead of fans. They could also use this thermal waste for heating in the cooler months.
Been there a few days ago. So according to the images here that half-finished observation egg in front of the Neiman Marcus building won't stay, that's good.
These towers reflected so much direct sunlight back into my north-facing dorm window during college. It was cool to watch them go up over the years, but by god that reflected light was obnoxious. It got hot enough to burn sometimes.
I'm wondering if - like the "needle" super-skinny high-rise luxury towers that overlook Central Park - most of the Hudson Yards residential units are being bought by investors and rich people (because no 'real people' can afford them). Their luxury residences look occupied, decorated, kept as if people are there but no one lives in them. Perhaps only visit once or twice a year. Ultra-expensive high-rise ghost towns. I've heard the same about other 'luxury residences" in cities like London, San Francisco, Seattle , Toronto. Mostly Chinese, some Russian . No affordable housing and only drives up prices for units in older buildings in surrounding areas.
As always great video. But Manhattan is becoming more and more off limits for the middle class and the poor. It will end up losing its sociologic diversity.
I’d say this project actually helps middle class and poor more than it hurts since Hudson Yards is being built on top of the train yard, unused space, rather than taking over a middle class community and gentrifying it for the rich.
TPR ThePellaReport no he didn’t, get your projects right. Christie killed the terribly designed and poorly funded Acess to the Region’s Core (or as I like to call it “Access to Macy’s Basement”) Gateway is a different tunnel project started by Amtrak, who will be able to benefit from four tracks under both rivers in and out of Penn station. ARC would have been NJ Transit only, would have had no layover capacity and would have done nothing to help Penn. penn station needs it’s existing tunnels rebuilt due to sandy damage and ARC would have been no help. I would say in the long run, Christie made the correct decision.
Mentions the name of every architecture and engineering firm, except the landscape architect behind the High Line, which helped all of this development happen. Classic.
What's so nice about Manhattan is that I only need $5.50 in my MetroCard to travel from Queens to Manhattan and enjoy everything the city has to offer. People all over the world have to fly and spend a lot of money just to visit Manhattan. I just need $5.50 inside my MetroCard. I just immigrated a few months ago to America.
Private developments . CHelsea HELLS Kitchen infrastructures demand archaeological engineering that will last for centuries. GDP GNP emerges as development teams collaborate their innovative IDEAS to support platforms ..... GREAT architecture
