Demolition is progressing at 37 West 57th Street, marking the latest step in the development of a 63-story, 1,100-foot (335-meter) skyscraper at 41-47 West 57th Street in Midtown Manhattan. The project, led by developer Sedesco and designed by OMA, will include 119 condominiums averaging 1,992 square feet (185 square meters), a 158-room hotel, and a 10,212-square-foot (949-square-meter) restaurant. The site spans both West 57th and West 58th Streets, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.

Sedesco acquired the 13-story office building at 37 West 57th Street in early 2023 for 77.5 million dollars, adding 87,855 square feet (8,165 square meters) to the planned 453,200-square-foot (42,099-square-meter) tower. Recent images show scaffolding and netting covering the structure, with interior demolition underway. A construction hoist will be anchored to the western lot line wall, where windows have been removed and boarded up.

Meanwhile, initial site preparation has begun at 41-47 West 57th Street, where an excavator is clearing debris, though full excavation is expected to begin after the demolition of 37 West 57th Street is complete.

Renderings depict the tower rising among the Billionaires’ Row supertalls, with a gradually tapering northern elevation clad in glass facing Central Park. The eastern façade is composed of concrete, with a recessed glass cutout following the tower’s angular form to a sharp point below the summit. The hotel will occupy floors two through twenty, with residences above.

Sedesco received a 20 percent increase in the tower’s allowable size in exchange for improvements to the 57th Street subway station at Sixth Avenue as part of the Zoning for Accessibility program. The developer will construct two Americans with Disabilities Act-compliant elevators, one at the southwestern corner of West 56th Street and Sixth Avenue, and another connecting the underground mezzanine to the platform. Approved by the City Planning Commission on December 1, 2021, the initiative also includes a new elevator machine room, updated communication systems, reconfigured turnstiles, and a US$9.83 million maintenance fund. Work on these transit upgrades has not yet begun.

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