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I’d be curious to know how many empty apartments are in manhattan? How many airbnbs and short term rentals? If the city restricted vacant properties then would we need to change the literal geography like this?
I'm pretty sure they have been planning relocation of wall street for last couple of decades. All it takes at this point, is a push that will convienve majority of interested parties to relocate.
Yeah Plymouth rock is total BS and had been moved before lmfao It is literally just a random rock with no historical value, the settlers didn't even land near it.
As an engineer, I would say that the project is technically feasible, but it will never happen. Environmentalists will file lawsuits from the day the project is greenlit to the day Jesus returns. The resulting delays will drive up the cost even higher. Even if that's not the case, it would still be a colossal waste of money. It would make far more sense to redevelop large areas of upper Manhattan and the Bronx.
yeah. my question is why don't they allow manhattan to build more skyscrapers or something? that seems more productive than trying to build a whole goddamn island. yes, the plumbing would need work, but it's nothing they can't handle.
Battery Park City originally was to extend to 72nd St. A similar plan existed on the East River side past the Brooklyn Bridge. Politics and environmentalists killed it.
I think the people who currently own the buildings on the current waterfront of Manhattan would be entirely unwilling to give-up their water views or views of any kind with new construction directly across the street from them. I cannot see this working unless they made it into a park. DA
Montreal, Canada did something similar on a smaller scale in the 1950’s when the Saint-Lawrence seaway was dug deeper and the removed soil and rock was used to expand some bits of land sticking out of the river into some current islands, one of which is now home to the formula one racetrack and the Montreal casino.
Insane seems like a strong word, Dubai and I think some coastal town, Monaco (or whatever that super rich coast town is called) already did such things to expand into the coastal waters... though NYC doing it might be an issue depending on whose paying for it as the other two land reclaimention projects were partially paid by those with enough wealth to do so... or projects that would in theory generate enough funds to pay back that expensive construction.
somewhat paradoxically, there are literally tens of thousands of apartments that are only used a handful of days a year by the owners and remain vacant the other 80-90% of the time, or have been off the market for years or even decades because they are covered by rent control, and the landlords can't rent them at market rates. so what happens is that the entire new construction market is geared towards the higher end with amenities galore and practically zero is affordable newly built studios and one bedrooms with a lack of amenities. So if they did this, two things should be implemented. 1. Zoning laws changed to allow for smaller apartments than currently 2. Buildings with ONLY smaller amenity free units should get a property tax break for a short duration. But Manhattan is literally the definition of a dysfunctional real estate market for a variety of reasons.
They should rebuild the twin towers in that extension, at least 2,001 ft tall. Have a spire atop the north tower that’s similar to the one atop the Empire State Building. But gothic instead of art deco, and a stainless steel eagle atop the south tower. With gothic spires at each corner, that way we can have a stark contrast between the new twin towers and the Silverstein center.
Any relief in housing will only be temporary. Or none at all. Look what happens when they expand a freeway. For a few weeks, traffic congestion is eased. Then more people realize they can use the freeway and the amount of traffic goes up, bringing back the traffic congestion. A similar thing will happen with new housing in Manhattan. With new housing, more people will move in and the housing congestion will come back to the current levels. Increasing any facility where people are avoiding because of congestion will not relieve the congestion. It will only lead to more people using it at the same or higher congestion level.
I have a timeshare in Manhattan, so I'm a stakeholder in this issue. This idea is worthy of money for a study. It should be integrated with the other $8B of mitigation to produce a unified climate change / city growth plan. By the way, raising New Manahatta by another 4 meters, would only involve 28M cubic meters more fill and would accommodate 1,000 years of sinking for the new section of the city. Taking 15 to 30 years to accomplish all this is quite fast IMO. One could start filling and building long before the last meter of fill is completed. Also, smarter construction methods should mitigate the sinking.
So, that guy just offered a concept based on all successful projects all over the world. His concept has no solid proof or calculation, and he didn't even come with the concept itself. Sounds like a senior high school or undergrad paper. What a shame!?
A constructive criticism, you should work your camera angles out so your mouth is always visible. Being a talking head without a mouth, as in this video, is bad visually.
Great idea and can be built fast and very cheap with those new millions of illegals who want to choose NY as their PRIME residenc, rather give them free housing and they can own it and help unburden he citizens fear. " Pasage of Time " Familiar ? 🤔
It is absolutely not necessary and would destroy the, still very fragile, recovering bay. We need living oyster breakwaters not -stolen- "reclaimed" land.
No way this would be built and then filled with affordable housing the cost per square foot would probably be the highest in the world so only the super rich would be able to afford any of the land. Also, everyone knows construction in NYC is always over budget and over deadline.
$15,000 per sq meter (same as current land prices on Manhattan)? If developers end up selling the new land for as much as existing Manhattan land goes for now, where is the “affordable” housing you mentioned coming from? Builders are going to want to maximize their profit by selling units for as much, if not more, as they would have spent buying existing Manhattan land. 🤔
"Necessary"? There is no need for this. All of those structures, if needed, can be done on the N.J. side. It's not as if N.J. is a different nation... Thus, this idea makes no sense. More so, USA's urban boom days are over, a lot of office space sits vacant, and N.Y.C's population is not growing.
You would not do this all at once, but in small segments and after the land is built up in that segment have private builders come in and construct the buildings themselves (the gov't wouldn't finance the buildings themselves), and then the gov't would be able to recop some of the cost for the project via revenue from the new buildings via taxes and fees. This would be done over many decades perhaps half a century. As for the buildings sinking, it would just require making the foundations or pilings for the buildings go down into bedrock. The question is how far deep is bedrock off the coast of Manhattan, since this would increase cost a lot the deeper the pillings have to go.
In that shape, no as the currents/tides need space and both sides stick out too far in every rendering of this I've ever seen. The length, however could continue if they wanted to, nothing out there but coney island whitefish.
? Well, there's many ways you could expand Manhattan. I don't love this idea. You are going to have to deal with sea level rise. Also, Governors island is hallowed ground. Civil war Confederates, Native Americans, Prisoners that were executed? In the very least you'd have to excavate the entire island and remove the bones. Oh and I am not one of those people that 'revere' corpses- when people are dead= who cares, but you'd still have to do it b/c there WOULD be people who wouldn't be cool with that- a lot of people. I haven't even Gotten into the biggest problem= POLTERGEIST'S. We are talking hundreds, maybe even thousands of NEW YORK Poltergeist's- so they're going to have an attitude for sure. How much money are you gonna use to rid the island of all those? I seen the movie, and that was just ONE poltergeist. Think what an army of them is going to be like to remove? GTFOH! But= I have a much better solution. Why not dam each side of, say the East River, drain it/ fill it/ tamp it/ and viola, you'd make much more than 7 square miles, it'd be easy to do, and it's also connect the land from both sides which would in turn make sea level rise easier to deal with. I don't know why I can't be in charge of solving the worlds problems, it's the one thing I do best. THAT is what should be done, not to mention it wouldn't cost as much as what he's proposing.
A 4m wall, I'd go higher, to be sure. That will cost a lot so the last thing they need is more circumference. I think they should update exisiting buildings. When they all have 90 floors, then expand the island. It would be nice though if Manhatta would envelop the statue of liberty, you wouldn't have to wait in line for hours to take a ferry.
This proposed project is in the United States and a large percentage of the RU-vid audience is American. It would be fair and very appropriate to see the inclusion of Freedom Units (FU) in addition to the use of the metric system when mentioning ground coverage.
⚠️Omg this comment section is TOXIC as fuck, climate denial, xen*phobia, classism... yall its not worth it, like 3 people are talking about substance⚠️
The world one trade centre is not 1775 feet tall anymore World War™ trade centre pretty sure is 1375 feet tall the old world centre got blown up by planes and I know why they made the towers shorter so it doesn’t get air strike again by 747😂😂
