The six-building project links several New York neighbourhoods and brings new life to Manhattan’s Far West Side.
Brookfield Properties and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) have marked the formal opening of Manhattan West, a dynamic, mixed-use neighbourhood in the heart of New York City’s Far West Side. The development, first conceived in the 1990s, transforms the underutilized space above active rail lines into a vital new destination and forms the crucial missing link in a chain of pedestrian pathways that tie the West Side together.
Manhattan West encompasses seven million square feet of retail, office, residential, and hospitality space in six buildings. Three were designed by SOM — One and Two Manhattan West and the Pendry Hotel — and all but the Eugene residences were engineered by SOM.
The development is organised around a series of dynamic public spaces designed in collaboration with landscape architect James Corner Field Operations and enabled by the engineering of a 2.6-acre platform above tracks leading to Penn Station. Lined with a combined 225,000sq ft of retail, the central plaza offers a vibrant new gathering space for residents, office workers, and travellers from the station.
