Lego City – NYC Hudson Yards

http://www.theawl.com/2015/09/lego-city

by walterbell • 11 years ago

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melling• 11 years ago

It really helped getting a new subway line to an inconvenient to reach part of Manhattan.

"If everything goes according to plan, the twenty-billion-dollar residential and commercial complex at Hudson Yards, stretching from West 30th to West 34th streets and from 10th to 12th Avenues, will be the largest private real estate development in United States history. "

jessriedel3• 11 years ago

The entire lower West side of Manhattan could use a new subway line. They originally planned to extend the 7 train southward several more stops, but they gave up on it.

gcr• 11 years ago

What's wrong with the ACE line or the 123 line?

Not west enough?

rco8786• 11 years ago

I think you're confusing west Chelsea with the lower west side. We have plenty of trains down here :)

smoyer• 11 years ago

False alarm - there's only a small paragraph at the end about Legos.

walterbell3• 11 years ago

Lego photos and description of the ever-evolving art installation: http://art.thehighline.org/project/olafureliasson/

Agathos• 11 years ago

Here's an old animation of the construction of a platform over those rail yards.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAc5hkCEYFU

howlingfantods• 11 years ago

The developer of Hudson Yards has an entire office in Shanghai dedicated to selling these apartments to wealthy Chinese people. The pitch is that each apartment comes with a USA green card under the EB-5 program. Apparently they're selling like hotcakes.

walterbell3• 11 years ago

Do they understand the IoT data collection / surveillance "amenities"? http://www.engadget.com/2014/05/07/hudson-yards-smart-neighb..., "… New York City's first truly smart neighborhood. Or, it will be when New York University's Center for Urban Science and Progress (CUSP), a partner for the development, finishes outfitting it with sensors … This "quantified community" is a real-life urban laboratory for connected living, and its future, deep-pocketed residents will be its well-kept lab rats.".

Artist renderings of the site: http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2015/08/19/go_inside_hudson_ya...

plonh• 11 years ago

Air quality, noise levels, energy and water usage

This is not the surveillance you should worry about.

Lego City – NYC Hudson Yards

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