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The latest and greatest slice of the city, Manhattan West, is officially open for business with a private kick-off party happening tonight.
“Manhattan West, a project decades in the making, weaves together the diverse communities of Manhattan’s West Side and provides New Yorkers with a tremendous amount of new experiences, restaurants, cultural programming, public space, arts and entertainment,” Laura Montross, Brookfield’s director of communications, told The Post.
The mega-project’s developer, Brookfield, bought its first parcel for the project in 1985 and acquired the remainder over the next 19 years while the 2005 Hudson Yards rezoning allowed the development to go forward.
Tonight’s shindig will include bites of food and cocktails from Manhattan West’s many restaurants as well as music by Questlove and The Roots. The 7.5 million-square-foot, amenity-stuffed oasis includes 200,000 square feet of food haunts, public art and experiential retail set around 2.5 acres of open space.
The sprawling 8-acre city-within-a-city has also created critical pedestrian connectivity between Madison Square Garden, Penn Station, the new Moynihan Train Hall, the other towers of Hudson Yards and the overhead High Line that also links visitors to Chelsea and the Meatpacking District.
“The guests are the people who made this project possible from the local community, real estate industry, restaurants, artists, tenants and investors,” Montross said.
Here’s what’s inside:
Framed by two glass walled towers — the now open 67-story office building at One Manhattan West and the still-under-construction Two Manhattan West — development is located between Ninth and Tenth avenues and West 30th and 33rd streets.
One Manhattan, a 2.1 million-square-foot tower located on the north side of the walkway, is already home to Accenture, EY, the law firms Skadden and McKool Smith plus the global investment firm Pharo and the NHL — which will also have a store and a hand in running the seasonal skating rink.
‘The guests are the people who made this project possible from the local community, real estate industry, restaurants, artists, tenants and investors.’
Laura Montross, Brookfield’s director of communicationsIts western side is adjacent to a 1913-era, 13-story boutique office building, the Lofts, which houses the workplace provider Spaces and other small companies. The 202,000-square-foot building has a block of 100,000 square feet available on the higher floors that includes a private penthouse terrace and its own entrance with rent upon request.
Further west, the now-open luxury boutique Pendry hotel on West 33rd Street is the brainchild of Alan Fuerstman and son Michael who are the visionaries behind the Montage Hotels & Resorts, which includes the Pendry brand.
This, their first city hotel, brings a calming cream and brown palette to the area, plus fireplaces, an intimate cocktail lounge and private whiskey bar terrace. Many of its 880-square-foot multi-room suites are already spoken for on the weekends, even with a tab running as much as $2,600 per night on its upper floors.
The south side of the plaza includes the 1.75 million-square-foot Two Manhattan where the law firm Cravath Swaine & Moore will occupy 481,000 square feet as the anchor tenant. The availabilities include floors 6 through 29, plus 38 through 58.
“These are incredibly attractive blocks [of space],” said Montross of the building that will open in 2023. “We have serious interest in excess of 1.5 million square feet.” Asking rents are available upon request.
To its west are the adjacent luxury rentals of The Eugene — also known as 3 Manhattan West — which include 675 market-rate and 159 affordable units inside a contemporary, 62-story tower with interiors by Roman and Williams.
Brookfield has included here a staggering 55,000 square feet of amenities including billiards, a gaming arcade, a golf simulator, LA PALESTRA Wellness & Fitness Center, a roof deck with a piano and poker lounge, a children’s playroom, a rock-climbing wall and a regulation-sized basketball court — after all, it is just two blocks from the Knicks’ home base at Madison Square Garden.
The dozen available units include the cheapest studio that will set you back $4,120 per month while a one-bedroom corner goes for $6,415 per month and a corner two-bedroom with two baths can be had for $7,930 per month. Rents vary depending on the flexible number of months that are leased
The Tenth Avenue facing building, known as 5 Manhattan West, has newly angled glass walls and former industrial turned office floorplates of 100,000 square feet — some of the largest in the city — with tech tenants such as Amazon.
This building has both outdoor and indoor passages (and an elevator) that snake around and through a new Whole Foods onto Tenth Avenue plus dining terraces that will, by early 2023, link directly onto a new spur of the High Line at West 31st Street.
“The land slopes down from Ninth Avenue to the Hudson River but the second floor of Five Manhattan West exactly matches the height of the High Line,” Montross explained of its fortunate connectivity.
The architects of SOM — who designed the master plan for Manhattan West along with all the new buildings — set back the tall towers and brought them down to earth by utilizing undulating and curving terraces along with plenty of street retailers, restaurants and outdoor seating.
In the winter, the large central circle will be taken over by a regulation ice rink that will be operated by Brookfield with its office and retail tenant, the National Hockey League.
For now, a very high scaffold decorated with lighted pouffes of silk fabric protects walkers and viewers of the giant lemons and flowers of Citrovia, an art installation that is scheduled to last another year or more. Although the scaffold set between the two towers is also destined for the recycling bin, Brookfield may have to rethink and replace it with something permanent as it now protects diners and strollers from sun, rain and the coming snow.
Montross says, “The retailers were chosen with everyday needs plus health and wellness in mind.”
The stores range from the large Peloton store and studio where its live classes are filmed; to the natural wellness solutions from Therabody; the wrinkle wreckers of Peachy; OPR Eyewear; the casual clothes of Public Rec; the family-owned men’s clothing of Rothman’s NYC; the curated offerings of New Stand plus the newest incarnation of the NHL Store.
Three coffee outlets include the Black Fox on West 33rd Street, Bluestone Lane in the base of the Eugene on West 31st Street and a Starbucks with a pickup window along the main plaza walkway.
Restaurants are plentiful and designed to make your mouth water while not hijacking your wallet. In the base of Five Manhattan West, the 40,000-square-foot Citizens food hall by Sam Nazarian’s C3 will include grab-and-go plus pastries, cocktails and two full-service restaurants: the Asian-inspired Katsuya by chef Katsuya Uechi and a Mediterranean concept with “Spanish flare” dubbed Casa Dani from chef Dani Garcia.
Quality Branded will open another Mediterranean café, Zou Zou’s, on the northwest corner of the main plaza which is connected to the base of the Pendry hotel. Opening soon, it will include ground level dining and an indoor-outdoor bar on a fourth floor terrace overlooking the plaza.
Zou Zou’s will open a fourth-floor indoor-outdoor bar above.
Zou Zou’s is also supplying all the food at the Pendry with its 23rd floor hosting another bar that will open in the spring.
Next door on the plaza, chef Richard Kuo’s Asian-inspired Hidden Leaf has its own bar on the plaza with another bar and restaurant on the second floor.
To the east of Hidden Leaf is the entrance to the 10,000-square-foot Midnight Theater, a 160-seat venue set on the second floor that will present dinner along with a rotation of comedy, magic, music and theatrical programs.
Danny Meyer’s Union Hospitality Group holds down the southwest corner of the plaza with Daily Provisions which opens on Wednesday for healthy everyday fare and a contemporary Italian menu at Ci Siamo, which also has an upper-floor dining terrace.
“We are incredibly proud to introduce New Yorkers to Manhattan West and contribute to this city’s boundless vibrancy,” Montross said.
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