Five design proposals were revealed for Manhattan's far West Side, where Mayor Bloomberg wants to build a new business district more than twice the size of the World Trade Center complex. The project will create a 4-acre park in the center of the boulevard that will connect new office and residential space planned for the West Side rail yard. Hudson Yards Development Corp. is overseeing this project...

Citing insufficient funding and lack of need for a station, the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) let a Sept. 13 contract deadline pass for construction of a new subway station on the No. 7 line at 10th Avenue and 41st Street. The station was part of early plans for the extension of the No. 7 west of Times Square to the Jacob K. Javits Center at 11th Avenue and 34th Street. Critics of the decision...

New York State released a “draft scope of work” document as part of the rezoning process of Hudson Yards which sets September 2015 as the earliest completion date of the eight towers to be built by Related Companies. The document also states that zoning changes will allow a greater number of apartments than Related had originally intended, construction of platform over the Long Island Railroad rail...

New Yorker architecture critic Paul Goldberger provides a dual critique of the Museum of Arts and Design’s new home at 2 Columbus Circle. From the outside, he laments that the renovated structure resembles too closely the building it replaced, the nearly windowless building once called the “Lollipop Building.” From the inside however, the building, which once housed Huntington Hartford’s largely...

The MTA plans to expand Metro-North service, which currently terminates at Grand Central Station on the east side, to include some trains that terminate at Penn Station on the west side of Manhattan. While this service expansion is said to be relatively inexpensive, since the necessary rail lines to accommodate the new routes already exist, it is only feasible if the authority can complete its East...

The East Side Access Project has received a United States Department of Transportation grant for $210 million according to Senators Charles Schumer and Hillary Clinton. The cost of the project is $7.2 billion. About $3 million in funding is still needed for the project which will connect Long Island Rail Road trains to Grand Central Station. A milestone for the project was recently achieved when...

An 85 story mixed hotel and residential tower is planned to be built next to the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Some are concerned that the height of the new building (1,250 feet) may overshadow the original MoMA building as well as block sunlight on the sidewalks and streets below.

Africa Israel, the owner of the Clock Tower on Madison Avenue, has hired Versace, the high-end Italian brand to design the interiors of the building. The Clock Tower, which once functioned as MetLife’s headquarters, will be redeveloped into condominiums. The final project will include 55 luxury apartments, a restaurant, and a spa and its estimated worth is $1 billion once completed.

Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) officials have announced that tunnel boring machines working underground have reached Grand Central Terminal in their path to extend the Long Island Rail Road to Grand Central. The project, known as the East Side Access, is scheduled for completion in 2015 at a total cost of $7.2 billion. Some observers applauded the announcement, citing the project’s benefits...

Some government officials are concerned that high costs related to the Port Authority’s stringent security requirements for the development site at West 37th Street and Ninth Avenue are threatening the real estate deal and planned development of the site. The Port Authority agreed to sell the development rights for the site, which is currently occupied by several Lincoln Tunnel entrance ramps that...