page_title: Manhattan West
section_title: 5 Manhattan West
hierarchical_section_title: Manhattan West / Buildings / 5 Manhattan West
caption_attribution_description: English: Looking east at the post office stub, late on a sunny winter day.
context_page_description: Manhattan West is a 5.4-million-square-foot mixed-use development by Brookfield Properties, being built as part of the Hudson Yards Redevelopment. The project consists of two large office towers and two smaller residential towers, as well as a 1.5-acre public park. The towers are being built on a platform over Penn Station storage tracks along Ninth Avenue. The buildings are close to the Hudson Yards mega-development to the west across Tenth Avenue. Upon its completion, the taller west tower will extend 995 feet up to its roof and will be one of the tallest buildings in New York City.
context_section_description: The existing building at 450 West 33rd Street, also known as Westyard Distribution Center, was designed by Davis Brody Bond and opened in 1969.  The 1.8-million-square-foot (170,000 m²), 16-story building originally had a beige precast concrete facade with a sloped base, and although the facade was cleaned up in 2003, it was seen as out of place with the architecture of the surrounding neighborhood. As of 2014, it contained the headquarters of the Associated Press.  In 2014, the brutalist concrete exterior was replaced with a glass facade and its interior and mechanical systems were also renovated. When renovation of the building was completed, it was renamed 5 Manhattan West.
caption: The initial appearance of 450 West 33rd Street
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