The 11.9-million-sq-ft first phase of the Hudson Yards development on Manhattan’s far West Side has been a cauldron of construction activity since 2013, but last year brought a noticeable change: a cluster of towers rising on the skyline.
For nearly four years, the dominant story of the estimated $25-billion project’s construction was the first half of a massive 24-acre platform over the rail yards west of Pennsylvania Station (ENR 5/18/15 p. 20) and erecting the 895-ft-tall, 1.8-million-sq-ft first structure—the 10 Hudson Yards tower that opened at the site’s southeast corner at 30th Street and 10th Avenue in 2016.