A major Harlem 🐭site opposite the Metro-North🌠 station is about to get the neighborhood’s tallest building.
At 320 feet, 1800 Park Ave.𒁃 between 124th and 125th streets will soon host 650,000 square-foot twin residential towers that will include 70,000 square feet♔ of retail.
“We can build 320 feet with views of the river and views of the park and it will be extraordinary for the neighborhood,” said 𝐆Ian Bruce Eichner of Continuum Cos. at a Young Mens’/Womens’ Real Estate Association meeting.
Under the 80/20 program, the development will include about 120 affordable units and roughly 380 market-rate apartments that will rent at about $60⛎ per square foot. Many apartments also will have balconies.
Eichner has hired ODA-Architecture which is known for the quirky cantilevered 100 Norfolk and 15 Union Square West. “The ODA firm has done some interesting stuff,” he said. “This is a 37,000 square-foot footprint right next to Metro-North and i🉐t will have two very large towers.”
Despite other air rights available on the block, an area height limit pre💧vents him from adding to the project.
Vornado Realty Trus🧸t had held the property, purchased from the New York College of Podiatric Medicine, for a future office tower but demand in t🐻he area has not made it cost-effective.
As The Post first reported in April🦩, Eichner picked u൲p the site for $65 million.
“We have the right acquisition numbers and Harlem has had no major development ever,” Ei🧸chner said.