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The future of what is soon to become the former Disney campus is becoming clearer.
Extell Development, one of Manhattan’s most active development firms, revealed initial plans to raze the buildings at 30 West 67th Street and 7 West 66th Street (between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue) in December. New residential structures in place of a portion of the existing Disney campus are set to house more than 80 apartments just a block from Lincoln Center.
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Crain’s New York Business just reported that the developer filed additional documents indicating a plan to demolish more structures within the group of buildings it purchased from Silverstein Properties for $931 million in 2022. The two properties–located at 77 West 66th Street and 54 West 67th Street–combine for about 30,000 square feet worth of development space, with the existing 66th street building reaching 22 stories tall.
The 77 West 66th Street address is formerly home to ABC Studios, which housed sets for ESPN and ABC studio shows. Disney is gradually moving its NYC headquarters to Tribeca’s 7 Hudson Square, where it’s constructed a state-of-the-art facility known as the Robert A. Iger building. The move downtown is set to be complete later this year.
The properties are across the street from Extell’s new luxury residence at 50 West 66th Street, which became the tallest building on the UWS when it was completed last year. The structure, designed by Norwegian firm Snøhetta, stands 775 feet and seven stories tall. According to a Corcoran listing, a 62nd floor apartment spanning nearly 10,000 square feet is on the market for $85 million.
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I worry about the traffic on 66th St. If there are high rise apartments on both sides of the street thats more Ubers abd deliveries. Thr Central Park transveree comes out on 66th guaranteeing lots of traffic. 66th St is only 3 lanes with parking on either side that’s 1 driving lane. There is also a bus stop both West of CPW and east of Columbus. It’s going to be a mess
Eighty whole apartments huh? My 20-story building has 190.
At 775 feet and but only seven stories, I guess the selling point for the apartments is the high ceilings.
Yup. Attention, Brendon: you dropped a “-ty” there — 70 floors, not seven.
Decadence has not reached *quite* that level yet.
Brendan; apologies.
Hey, Brendan. Thanks for this update. I worked for ABC and wanted to suggest a correction in your post re:
“The 77 West 66th Street address is formerly home to ABC Studios, which housed sets for ESPN and ABC studio shows.”
The 77 West building was the corporate headquarters. It was built as the replacement for the company’s former 40-story headquarters at 1330 Ave. of the Americas (@54th St). I actually moved into 77W when it was brand spanking new (1989)! There were no studios inside. To my knowledge, no shows have ever originated from 77W as it was all us corporate types. Impressive place back in the day.
The 7 West 66th St. building housed TV-1, TV-2, and TV-7, and building 30 housed the Network News studio. I worked in Engineering for 17years there.
What a grotesque waste of resources.