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Total Construction Spending Expected to Rise This Year But Then Decline in 2018

Reports From Key New York Industry Events

At 1,396 ft, 432 Park Avenue is the tallest residential building in the Western Hemisphere, according to its project team.

With its atypical floor plates, many cantilevered floors and irregular balcony spacing and locations, 56 Leonard has been dubbed the Jenga building, since it resembles the children’s tower block game.

In 2013, a 16-lb ornamental plaster rosette fell from the 52-ft-high ornate ceiling in the New York Public Library’s Rose Reading Room.

860 Washington Street is a mixed-use 10-story building in New York’s Meatpacking District.

The 650,000-sq-ft Bristol-Myers Squibb Princeton Pike project sought to achieve LEED Gold certification by putting in place several unique design solutions that include a central ice storage plant, a supply air grid that allows for the lowest horsepower fan operation for each of its four buildings, charging stations, a roof-mounted photovoltaic array system, a daylight harvesting control system for LED light fixtures and groundwater collection for the cooling tower.