30 Hudson Yards (also the North Tower) is a

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in the

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of Midtown

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. Located near

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, and the

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area, the building is part of the

Hudson Yards Redevelopment Project Hudson Yards is a neighborhood on the West Side of Midtown Manhattan, bounded roughly by 30th Street in the south, 41st Street in the north, the West Side Highway in the west, and Eighth Avenue in the east.Chapter 11: Figures The area is the s ...

, a plan to redevelop the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's

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. It is the sixth-tallest building in New York City and the eighth-tallest in the United States as of November 2022. The building has a triangular

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, known as ''The Edge'', jutting out from the 100th floor, with a bar and event space on the 101st floor. This observation deck, at 1,100 feet, opened in March 2020 and is the second-highest outdoor observation deck containing optically transparent flooring in the world, after Skywalk in Madeira. It offers new skyline views to the south and east of Manhattan; the surrounding

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; and westward across the

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, the

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History

The groundbreaking ceremony took place on December 4, 2012. Early construction work focused on building a platform to cover much of the Eastern Rail Yard, for much of Phase 1 to sit upon and to allow the Gateway Rail Tunnel project to pass underground with a clear path. The platform is rested on

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that are drilled underground into the solid

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known as

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. On December 12, 2013, it was announced that Tutor Perini Building Corp. was awarded a US$510 million contract to build the platform. In 2013,

Time Warner Warner Media, LLC ( traded as WarnerMedia) was an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate. It was headquartered at the 30 Hudson Yards complex in New York City, United States. It was originally established in 1972 by ...

(later WarnerMedia, and now Warner Bros. Discovery) announced its intention to move most of its offices to 30 Hudson Yards, vacating its current headquarters at the

Time Warner Center Deutsche Bank Center (also One Columbus Circle and formerly Time Warner Center) is a mixed-use building on Columbus Circle in Manhattan, New York City. The building occupies the western side of Columbus Circle and straddles the border between ...

, also owned by Related, at

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. The company would occupy half the building, below the 38th floor. In mid-2015, Related received a $690 million loan from

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Wells Fargo Wells Fargo & Company is an American multinational financial services company with corporate headquarters in San Francisco, California; operational headquarters in Manhattan; and managerial offices throughout the United States and intern ...

, and

CIBC The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC; french: Banque canadienne impériale de commerce) is a Canadian multinational banking and financial services corporation headquartered at CIBC Square in the Financial District of Toronto, Ontario. T ...

which allowed construction to start. By January 2016, the structure's first few aboveground floors were already complete. Construction of the observation deck at the top of the tower began in April 2018. The observation deck was nearly complete by mid-2018. In January 2019, WarnerMedia hired Douglas Harmon and Adam Spies of Cushman & Wakefield to find a buyer that would sell their office condominium and allow the company to lease it back—known as a sale-leaseback. WarnerMedia's office condo included more than 1.4 million square feet on floors 16 through 51 and represented approximately 60 percent of the 90-story tower with 2.6 million square feet. The building opened on March 15, 2019. One month later, WarnerMedia executed a

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and sold their space to Related and

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for $2.2 billion after signing a 15-year lease for . The sale closed in June 2019. The partners financed the purchase with a 10-year, $1.43 billion

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from

Deutsche Bank Deutsche Bank AG (), sometimes referred to simply as Deutsche, is a German multinational investment bank and financial services company headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany, and dual-listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and the New York Sto ...

, Wells Fargo, and

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. In June, KKR took out a $490 million mortgage from

on their office condominium space.

Tenants

* Lobby:

Warner Bros. Discovery Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. (WBD) is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at 230 Park Avenue South in New York City. It was formed after the spin-off of WarnerMedia by AT&T, and its merger with D ...

The Shops & Restaurants at Hudson Yards The Shops & Restaurants at Hudson Yards is an upscale indoor shopping mall in New York City, located at 20 Hudson Yards, at 33rd Street and Tenth Avenue, within the Hudson Yards complex in Midtown Manhattan. It has of space, including in re ...

(retail), Jack's Stir Brew Coffee * Floors 1–15:

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* Floors 16–51:

* Floor 25: (

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) * Floor 35: (

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) * Floor 52: (mechanical floor) * Floors 60–65:

* Floors 66–71:

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* Floors 72–73:

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* Floors 74–83:

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* Floor 79: (mechanical floor) * Floors 80-99 do not exist. * Floors 100–101: (observation deck) * Floor 101: (event space) * Floors 102–103 (mechanical floors)

Studios

*17N: ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Reliable Sources'' *19X: multi purposed studio *19Y: '' At This Hour'', ''

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'', '' New Day'', '' Quest Means Business'' *19Z: ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'' *21L: ''

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Architecture and design

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was chosen for the design of the building, while

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was lead structural engineer and

Jaros, Baum & Bolles Jaros, Baum & Bolles (JB&B) is an American MEP (Mechanical, electrical, and plumbing) and consulting engineering firm founded in 1915 by Alfred L. Jaros, Jr. and Albert L. Baum. The firm is best known for high-rise projects, including One World Trad ...

provided MEP engineering services. Originally planned to be tall, the building was later downsized to tall, making it still the development's tallest building. WarnerMedia's space features amenities including a cafeteria, a fitness center, a two-level auditorium and cinema and an outdoor deck. The building's lobby will contain artwork by Spanish artist

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consisting of 11 stainless steel spheres hanging from the ceiling, meant to represent global unity and cultural diversity.

Edge

The building features an outdoor observation deck known as "Edge", located on the 100th and 101st floors. Edge contains a cantilevered outdoor terrace jutting outward south of the building on the 100th floor, providing panoramic views of

and the

. It is the second tallest outdoor observation deck in the

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, after Skywalk in Madeira, and the second highest observation deck in

, after

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. Visitors can lean into the high clear glass barricade slanted 6.6 degrees outward to safely check out the street and rooftops below. Edge also features a glass triangle in the floor which looks down to the street below. There is also a grand outdoor staircase on the east side of the deck. Edge opened to visitors on March 11, 2020, and temporarily closed two days later due to the

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. Edge reopened on September 2, 2020.

City Climb at Edge

In October, it was announced that 30 Hudson Yards would host another attraction dubbed “City Climb at Edge” which allows visitors to ascend an outdoor staircase located at the top of the tower's crown. It was opened to the public on November 9, 2021 and is the highest open-air building ascent in the world.

Gallery

30 Hudson Yards 2019.jpg, From the east, with 5 Manhattan West visible at left Hudson Yards May 2017 03.jpg, The tower's base File:30 Hudson Yards March 2017.jpg, Under construction in March 2017 File:Edge HY.jpg, The Edge, facing South. File:Hudson Yards May 2017 47.jpg, Under construction on the left with the completed

10 Hudson Yards 10 Hudson Yards, also known as the South Tower, is an office building that was completed in 2016 in Manhattan's West Side. Located near Hell's Kitchen, Chelsea and the Penn Station area, the building is a part of the Hudson Yards urban renewal ...

on the right in May 2017 File:Hudson Yards Apr 2018 04.jpg, Under construction in April 2018

References

External links

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New York City project website

Related Companies project website

Animation: building the platform while trains run through
Brookfield properties, via Gothamist.com
Hudson Yards news and developments

YouTube videos containing a photographic compilation of its construction
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History

Tenants

Studios

Architecture and design

Edge

City Climb at Edge

Gallery

See also

References

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