30 Hudson Yards (also the North Tower) is a supertall

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in the West Side of Midtown

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. Located near Hell's Kitchen, Chelsea, and the

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area, the building is part of the Hudson Yards Redevelopment Project, 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 U.S. state of

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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 Manhattan schist. 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,

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(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, 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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, and CIBC 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 commercial mortgage-backed security interest-only loan from

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, 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,

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(retail), Jack's Stir Brew Coffee * Floors 1–15: Wells Fargo Securities * Floors 16–51: Warner Bros. Discovery * Floor 25: ( mechanical floor) * Floor 35: (

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) * Floor 52: (mechanical floor) * Floors 60–65: Wells Fargo Securities * 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: '' CNN Newsroom'', '' Early Start'', '' Reliable Sources'' *19X: multi purposed studio *19Y: '' At This Hour'', '' CNN Tonight'', '' New Day'', '' Quest Means Business'' *19Z: '' Don Lemon Tonight'', '' Erin Burnett OutFront'', '' Fareed Zakaria GPS'' *21L: '' Anderson Cooper 360°''

Architecture and design

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was chosen for the design of the building, while Thornton Tomasetti was lead structural engineer and Jaros, Baum & Bolles 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 Jaume Plensa 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 One World Observatory. 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

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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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