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A decade after it first appeared on a drawing board, 300 people gathered today on Manhattan's west side to celebrate the official start of the 26-acre development. Image Courtesy New York City Mayor's Office A rendering of the Hudson Yards development on Manhattan's west side. Hudson Yards—one of New York City’s largest-ever construction projects, and one of its most delayed—officially got underway on Tuesday morning, a decade after first appearing on a drawing board. Photo © Spencer T. Tucker, Courtesy New York City Mayor's Office On Tuesday, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg (third from left) joined Related Companies and

Image courtesy Visualhouse/KPF Kohn Pedersen Fox’s master plan for the Hudson Yards development sprawls along the Hudson between Tenth and Twelfth Avenues, and West 30th and West 33rd Streets. After years of debate and delays, Hudson Yards—an ambitious plan to create a new mixed-use neighborhood from scratch over railroad tracks on Manhattan’s west side—is finally breaking ground. Excavations for the first office tower on the site, designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF), which also created the master plan, will begin by the first week of December, according to a source at the Related Companies, its co-developer with Oxford Properties

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The client of this renovated pre-war townhouse on an historic block in New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood requested the house contain a garden-level duplex for himself and a duplex apartment for rent on the upper two floors.

For several years on the anniversary of 9/11, a pair of temporary light beams were projected heavenward as luminous reminders of the attacks on the Twin Towers.