About Elie Hirschfeld

  Updated renderings created by DBOX for   Vornado Realty Trust  showcase The Penn District, a 7.4-million-square-foot development in   Midtown , Manhattan. Located within the same boundaries as the new   Madison Square Garden  complex from Vishaan Chakrabarti’s   Practice for Architecture and Urbanism  that YIMBY   recently revealed , the renderings offer a more finalized version of five skyscrapers with the tallest, referred to as Penn 15, anticipated to rise nearly 1,200 feet high.  Foster + Partners   is designing the structures, which would stand close to the 109-year-old   James A. Farley Building   and   Skidmore Owings & Merrill ‘s newly opened   Moynihan Train Hall , as well as One and Two Penn Plaza and Madison Square Garden. The redesign also appears to be a tweaked iteration of   15 Penn Plaza   from a previous depiction that YIMBY showed back in   May 2020 . The parameters of the Penn District remain the same, bound by Sixth Avenue to the east, West 32nd Street to the

Earlier this month, the board of directors of the Empire State Development adopted a new project plan for the  Empire Station Complex . This area, which includes eight sites within the Penn Station hub, spans Sixth to Ninth Avenues, from West 30 th to West 34 th Streets. The new plan will foster high-density redevelopment, and will include retail, hotel, residential, and commercial spaces. The plan is supported by a draft Environmental Impact Statement.    Elie Hirschfeld , who was the owner of Hotel Pennsylvania for 20 years, has voiced his support of the plan, which he believes will help elevate the neighborhood to the elegance of former years.     “The new 20-million square foot  Empire Station Complex Redevelopment Plan will deliver a magnificent new feel and activity to replace the dreary neighborhood that it is now,”  Elie Hirschfeld stated. At the center of the development will be a new 1,200 foot tall building called  Penn 15 , replacing the former  Hotel Pennsylvania . Steve R