Things are heating up at the future site of a new 40+ story residential tower joining the fray of similar projects in the area. Renderings have recently been published on the fence, and they are shiny:

The lot is at 41^st & 10^th, sitting next door to St Raphael’s Church, who developer Extell bought the rights for the development from last year for almost $16½ million (no big deal). Curbed covered the plans back in January.

For future reference, here’s the site now. Try to imagine a wall of glass.

The plans have work scheduled to complete in June 2016, so don’t hold your breath.

Update: Curbed linked us! Thanks guys. Also, the site photo was linked to the wrong photo. Apologies, it’s fixed now.

With the number of “megaprojects” going up around the area, it’s interesting to instead take a look from time to time at what’s happening with the more traditional townhouses around the area. To give you a taste of that world, one on W 50^th St has gone up for sale, for the “modest” price of $3.6 million:

The floorplan, to make you sad about your apartment too:

The place sold for over $600,000 less at the end of last year, so not bad for half a year of nothingness. We can dream.

Somewhat of a minor local landmark, the iconic H&H Bagels signage opposite the Intrepid has towered over the West Side Highway for years, even after the company’s eviction at the start of last year.

The location is planned to be an event space, as reported by DNAinfo. Work has begun on the transformation already, and unfortunately, the signs were the first to go:

Flashback:

Here’s what we can look forward to, per DNAinfo:

W 35^th St can look forward to a new hotel opening between 8^th and 9^th Avenues. Here’s something like we can expect from the 25-​story building, per the site:

Trendy!

The newish brand EVEN Hotels are taking over lots 321 – 325, from the applications. The spot, formerly home to a bike shop and pedicab garage, is currently a vacant garage:

The hotel isn’t scheduled to be opened mid-​2015. Don’t hold your breath!