feistyred:mknell:

Massive apartment building being built next to Pace downtown.

This is the Beekman Tower @ 8 Spruce Street, which Curbed called “Frank Gehry’s 76-Story Dick Joke.” Ha! Per LowerManhattan.info:

…Gehry designed the glass- and titanium-skinned tower. It will be primarily residential, though it also will dedicate 100,000 square feet to a public school, hospital offices, and an underground parking lot. There will be retail around its base and public plazas on its east and west sides, which pedestrians can use for access between Beekman and Spruce Streets…

[See also NY Times coverage of the project’s stop and restart this summer, with their rendering, at right.]