This new 511,000-SF, 21-story brick-faced, reinforced concrete residential complex provides rental 502 apartments, a 10,000-SF health club on a single level, 18,000-SF below grade parking garage that provides parking for 100 cars, and ground floor retail with professional offices located on the second floor.All residents will have access to a
rooftop terrace with a reflecting pool along with a main
lobby with concierge. In addition, a select number of two
and three bedroom apartments will have fireplaces. Each
apartment will have individual heating and cooling with
through-wall incremental units. The kitchens in each apartment
will have ceramic tile floors, granite composite countertops,
thermofoil finish cabinets and high-end GE appliances. The
bathrooms will also contain ceramic tile floors to match
the ceramic tile tub surrounds. All living rooms, dining
rooms and bedrooms will have honey oak parquet flooring.
The foundation work consisted of rock removal, piles, and
providing an MTA easement at the northeast corner of the
site for the future 2nd Avenue subway. The easement required
the drilling of 32 caissons to allow the future installation
of escalators for a subway station. The building is constructed
of reinforced concrete and masonry brick façade with
concrete masonry block backup walls. The superstructure
work required approvals from NYCDOT due to the mid-town
tunnel exit across the street before two street cranes could
be utilized for the concrete work. A traffic and pedestrian
study was performed and resulted in constructing a lane
shift on East 34th street to maintain three lanes of eastbound
traffic and closing one lane for the cranes and staging
area. |