New York is building up again! Ten towers of 1,000 feet or more are rising, clearing their sites or working through approvals in Manhattan right now, and between them they will redraw the skyline from the harbor to Lincoln Center. A few are already pouring concrete. Others are still just a box on a zoning drawing.
We gathered every one, drew them to the same scale, dropped them into a 3D Manhattan and traced where their shadows will fall on Central Park. (A supertall, for the record, is anything 300 meters tall or more, about 984 feet.) Hat tip to the r/skyscrapers community, whose running list of every supertall in the pipeline started this.
At a glance
- Tallest in the pipeline: 175 Park Avenue, about 1,545 feet
- New towers over 1,000 feet: ten, plus a 926-foot partner at the bus terminal
- Busiest developer: Extell, behind four of them
- Busiest architect: Foster + Partners, with three towers and the new bus terminal
- First to open: likely The Torch in Times Square, targeted for 2028
The tallest buildings coming to New York City, ranked
Here are all ten, tallest first. Tap With landmarks to slot the Empire State Building, One World Trade Center and friends in beside them, and tap any tower for the details.
Elevation sheet, drawn to scale
New York’s next supertalls, side by side
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Silhouettes are simplified massing drawn to one scale, tip to street. Heights from filings and developer figures as of September 2026, and they still move. Tap any tower for details.
| Rank | Tower | Height | Neighborhood | Status | Target |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 175 Park Avenue | About 1,545 ft | Midtown East | Permits filed | 2032 |
| 2 | 350 Park Avenue | 1,414 ft | Midtown East | Demolition | 2032 |
| 3 | Port Authority Bus Terminal tower | 1,346 ft | Midtown West | Planned | After 2032 |
| 4 | Two World Trade Center | 1,226 ft | Lower Manhattan | Under construction | 2031 |
| 5 | 77 West 66th Street | About 1,200 ft | Upper West Side | On hold | TBD |
| 6 | 655 Madison Avenue | 1,162 ft | Upper East Side | Excavation | 2030 |
| 7 | 871 Seventh Avenue | 1,130 ft | Midtown | Demolition | TBD |
| 8 | 310 Greenwich Street | 1,090 ft | Tribeca | Plans filed | TBD |
| 9 | PENN15 | 1,050 ft | Penn Station | Redesigned | TBD |
| 10 | The Torch | 1,029 ft | Times Square | Under construction | 2028 |
Take the flyover
Press Fly the tour and the camera leaves the harbor, passes the World Trade Center, runs up the Hudson to Penn Station and the bus terminal, crosses Midtown to Grand Central and Park Avenue and finishes over Central Park. Teal towers are the new ones. Everything gray already stands. The rest of the city is generalized, so read it as a map rather than a photograph.
Ten new towers
Teal is coming. Grey is already here.
Press Fly the tour, or drag to look around and pinch or scroll to zoom.
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Going up: ten towers, from 1,029 feet to the top
We start at the bottom and ride up. Each tower below is taller than the one before it, from a hotel with a thrill ride in Times Square to a steel lattice beside Grand Central. Keep an eye on the elevator in the corner of your screen.
The Torch 1,029 feet
The strangest building on the list, and our favorite for pure fun. ODA, the New York firm founded by Eran Chen, designed a hotel for Eighth Avenue at 46th Street whose top half was meant to be a 500-foot spiral of pleated glass, modeled on the flame in the Statue of Liberty’s hand. It widened as it climbed, opened up into pockets of greenery, and at night spotlights would light the crown like the thing it’s named for.
Then there’s the ride. Up at the observation deck, Intamin, the Swiss company behind some of the fastest roller coasters on earth, is building a drop ride inside transparent tubes about 300 feet tall, nearly the height of the Statue of Liberty itself. You rise slowly through the glass, pause, and fall, the whole thing over in about 90 seconds, near the top of a thousand-foot tower over Times Square! A local civic group accused the project of bringing Coney Island to Midtown. The city ruled the ride was allowed as of right.
Getting here took a while. Extell spent more than seven years and roughly $186 million piecing together eleven lots, first filing for a 10-story office building before pivoting to the hotel tower in 2021. The base wraps around three older low-rise buildings that stayed put. Construction then stalled for about 15 months starting in March 2024, amid disputes with contractors, and restarted in June 2025.
The version rising now is tamer. Value engineering trimmed it from 1,067 to 1,029 feet and squared the spiral off into a plainer column, which we miss. The rendering above shows the original. The drop ride is still in the plans, the exterior stair at the top appears to have survived, and the hotel floors are close to topping out, with completion expected in the second half of 2028. That likely makes it the first tower on this list to open.
PENN15 1,050 feet
Vornado’s replacement for the Hotel Pennsylvania got a redesign this month. Foster + Partners brought it down from an earlier 1,270-foot scheme to a 52-story office tower that steps back on all four sides, making room for ten terraces, with LED screens wrapping the base along Seventh Avenue.
There’s still no construction timeline. Of the three Foster towers here it feels the most like a spreadsheet, though the terraces help.
310 Greenwich Street 1,090 feet
Tribeca has never had a supertall, which is what makes this one notable. Vornado and Stellar Management filed in May for a 72-story tower by Morris Adjmi Architects with 976 apartments, some of them affordable, far more homes than any other tower on this list.
Adjmi is known for brick and cast iron buildings that sit comfortably in old neighborhoods, so we’re curious what that sensibility looks like at 1,090 feet.
871 Seventh Avenue 1,130 feet
Another Extell tower by Beyer Blinder Belle, this time where the Wellington Hotel stood at 55th Street, a block from Carnegie Hall and four blocks from Central Park. The plan is 71 stories: a 156-key hotel on floors 8 through 27 and 130 residences above.
Extell earned 20 percent more floor area by paying for elevators and a new entrance at the 50th Street subway station, a trade we’d happily see more of. Demolition is underway.
655 Madison Avenue 1,162 feet
The Upper East Side’s first supertall is going up at Madison and 60th Street, a block from the park. Beyer Blinder Belle designed it for Extell as a plain, monolithic slab with three setbacks: 154 condos over roughly 233,000 square feet of offices and shops, with one setback at 408 feet to leave breathing room beside 520 Park Avenue.
Excavation began in July and the sign on site says spring 2030. There are no finished renderings yet, only elevation diagrams, so it’s the one tower here we can’t show you.
77 West 66th Street About 1,200 feet
Extell bought ABC’s old campus near Lincoln Center and has filed for a condo tower of about 1,200 feet and 86 stories, which would be the tallest building on the Upper West Side by a wide margin. What exists so far is massing. The yellow block above is a Google Earth model of the zoning envelope, not a design.
The old buildings are down and construction is on hold for now. Expect a fight. The neighborhood already took Extell’s 50 West 66th, a few doors away, to court.
Two World Trade Center 1,226 feet
The last empty corner of the World Trade Center site is finally getting its tower. American Express signed on as the sole tenant, construction restarted in July, and Foster + Partners’ updated design stacks 55 floors in steps with terraces tucked along its sides.
Completion is targeted for 2031, thirty years after the attacks. From the harbor it will finish the stair step of towers that rises toward One World Trade Center.
The Port Authority Bus Terminal Towers 1,346 and 926 feet
The least glamorous address on the list could produce one of its tallest towers. The Port Authority is rebuilding its bus terminal between Eighth and Ninth Avenues and 40th and 42nd Streets, a Foster + Partners and Epstein design, and the plan reserves room for two office towers above it, one 1,346 feet and one 926.
For now they are zoning envelopes, simple boxes showing the most the site could hold, and they won’t arrive until after the new terminal opens around 2032. It’s the longest shot here. It’s also the most interesting city story: the future towers are part of how a new bus station gets paid for.
350 Park Avenue 1,414 feet
Ken Griffin’s Citadel will anchor Foster + Partners’ tower on Park Avenue at 51st Street. The first scheme reached about 1,600 feet. The current one is 1,414, built from seven rounded glass volumes that step back toward the west, with planted terraces on the lower setbacks and the top three forming the crown.
Demolition started this summer and the target is 2032. It’s calm and very handsome, and with JPMorgan’s 270 Park, also by Foster, a few blocks south, this stretch of Park Avenue is turning into a Foster gallery.
175 Park Avenue About 1,545 feet
And here’s the top floor. This is the one we keep coming back to. SOM wrapped the tower in a lattice of steel columns that splay apart at the sidewalk, where they have to dodge Grand Central’s tracks, then gather again at a crown. The structure is the ornament, which is exactly what the Chrysler Building across the street figured out in 1930.
It replaces the Grand Hyatt, itself the old Commodore Hotel in a mirrored coat. RXR and TF Cornerstone filed permits in April for offices with a Hyatt hotel on the upper floors, aiming for 2032 if the financing lands. Filings have put the height anywhere from about 1,545 to 1,580 feet, which decides whether it ends up a few feet shy of Central Park Tower or just past it. We looked closer at the design when the permits dropped.
What the new towers mean for Central Park’s light
Three of these towers stand within a few blocks of the park: 871 Seventh Avenue at 55th Street, 655 Madison Avenue at 60th and 77 West 66th Street near Lincoln Center. Shadows from the supertalls along Billionaires’ Row have been a fight for more than a decade. The Municipal Art Society began publishing shadow studies in 2013, and in 2018 a photographer caught Central Park Tower’s shadow sliding across Sheep Meadow while the building was still going up.
So we modeled it, using the sun’s true position over Manhattan and simplified versions of each tower. In summer the new shadows barely touch the park at midday. Winter is a different story. At noon on December 21, 871 Seventh’s shadow runs about 2,340 feet, and by 3 pm it stretches nearly a mile. By our model, at 3 pm on the shortest day of the year the three new towers shade about 24 acres of the park, while today’s supertalls already shade about 55 acres at the same moment.
Pick a day, then drag the slider or press play to watch the shadows swing across the park.
Shadow study, modeled
Where the new towers’ shadows fall on Central Park
A Moss and Fog model using the sun’s true position over Manhattan and simplified tower shapes. It counts shadow falling on the park itself, not on streets or rooftops, and real shadows will shift with final designs.
Just finished, and just below the line
Two giants slipped out of the pipeline recently. JPMorgan Chase’s 1,388-foot headquarters at 270 Park Avenue opened in October 2025, and KPF’s 1,002-foot pencil tower at 520 Fifth Avenue is wrapping up construction now.
Out on the far West Side, Related’s Hudson Yards West won approval last year for about 4,000 apartments, a public school and 6.6 acres of park over the rail yards. None of its towers reach supertall height, but it will change the view from the Hudson as much as anything above.
Where the new skyline lands
Look at where these ten towers sit and a pattern shows up. Almost everything is clustering on top of transit: Grand Central, Penn Station, the bus terminal, the World Trade Center’s PATH hub, Times Square. Even 871 Seventh bought its extra height with a subway entrance. New York is stacking its next skyline on the trains.
Keep exploring
- The Most Extraordinary Buildings in the World
- The Tallest Skyscrapers in the World, and the Tower About to Break Every Record
- Enormous New Supertall Tower in NYC Has Echoes of Art Deco Design
- ‘The Spiral’ Supertall With Terraced Gardens Reaches Completion
- 111 West 57th Tops Out Over Central Park
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Heights and status from New York YIMBY, Dezeen, Wikipedia, the Municipal Art Society and developer filings, current as of September 2026. Shadow figures come from our own model and are approximate. Heights in the pipeline change often, and we’ll keep this page updated as these towers rise.
Edited by Ben VanderVeen · About Moss & Fog
