I noticed this building at 785 8th Avenue, now known as the Icon, on a previous trip. It’s still weird: what is a sliver building doing on a location like this? – quite literally an edgy Hell’s Kitchen site.
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The various density transfers involved must be a story on its own. As is the technology involved to slip something so tall on a 33-foot site:
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Lots of international money involved, apparently – since real-estate in New York more and more about that.
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Which makes this all the more curious:
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A surface parking lot at 135 West 54th – not half a block from those corporate towers on Sixth and right on the edge of the theatre district. Oh, the money that must be worth – and it doesn’t even look like it attracts a lot of cars.
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Gotta be a story there.
Check out the parking special – $8.45 for up to half an hour!
Which reminds me – EasyPark has changed its weekend parking rates at Pacific Centre (may have been some time ago as I haven’t parked down there in ages til a surprise bill).
Instead of an $8.00 flat rate on Sat or Sun, it’s now $3.75 per half hour to a max of $10.00 before 6:00pm (i.e. 1.5 hours) and a separate max of $10.00 after 6:00pm (another 1.5 hours).
So whereas previously, you could go shopping til 6:00pm then catch dinner or a movie for $8.00 in parking, now if you do that (or spend a few hours in Nordstrom spanning the 6:00pm transition), you’ll now ring up a $20.00 parking tab.
Get some exercise and park at the YWCA only 1 1/2 blocks away on Hornby with a flat rate of $6 all day on weekends and evenings.
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