Current Status: Under Construction
130 William Street Vital Stats
Address: 130 William St., New York, New York 10038 (Community Board 1)
Type: Residential
Name: 130 William Street; The Wall Street Tower
Construction: Begun 2017; Complete by 2020
Design Architect: Adjaye Associates
Executive Architect: Hill|West Architects
Developer: Lightstone Group
Builder: Titan Industrial Services Corp.
Height: 755 feet; 230 meters; 61 stories
Total Construction Floor Area: 424,448 square feet; 39,433 square meters
Site Area: 17,384 square feet; 1,615 square meters
Density: 244 units
View Zoning Diagram HERE
Loopholes Exploited:
Read through our blog below for more information on Supertalls.
This isn’t a Game
The City enacts building codes and zoning guidelines often to protect the public. Jacob Riis instigated housing reform and new tenement laws by exposing the horrid living conditions of the immigrant poor. The Triangle Shirt Waist Factory immolation yielded more...
THE GUARDIAN: Anything but “Super”
Like leggy plants given too much fertiliser, [sic] these buildings are a symptom of a city irrigated with too much money. The Guardian takes on the emergence of a "new" typology in "Super-tall, Super-skinny, Super-expensive: the 'Pencil Towers' of New York's...
Mechanical Voids Are Highbrow/Despicable
From New York Magazine's "The Approval Matrix: Week of February 4, 2019": "So it's perfectly legal right now for developers to put 160-feet tall "mechanical voids" in their buildings to give apartments higher priced views?" Wethinks they're looking at you, 50 W. 66th...
Contact Information
Sean Khorsandi
Executive Director
LANDMARK WEST!
LandmarkWest@LandmarkWest.org
45 West 67th Street New York, NY 10023
212-496-8110
