Lower East Side Skyline Could Look Like This

New renderings of what the Lower East side skyline could be are a warning to everyone who has ever felt the slightest personal connection to the neighborhood. City Realty created renderings using information obtained by neighborhood blog The Lo-Down through a Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request for their disheartening predictions. The FOIL request disclosed giant condo projects potentially hitting the neighborhood in the next few years. The plans call for historic expansion in the neighborhood that would add at least 3,700 apartments to just a three-block area.

The "pre-proposal statements" obtained by The Lo-Down could change many times in the next few months, but developers are proposing the following:

A 60-story building by the Starrett Corp. with 741 apartments at 271-283 South St. bordering Clinton St. measuring 620,000 square feet.

A 66-story building by L+M Development and the CIM Group (Two Bridges Associates) with 1,400 apartments at 260 South St. on a 1.1 million square foot site. The site is currently for parking, but the 103 parking spaces would be relocated to the lower level of the proposed building, according to the Two Bridges Associates proposal.

A 77-story building with 1,600 apartments and another 80-story tower by Extell Development.

Here is how they would all look, if accepted all together:

"Our goals for this project include a number of meaningful community amenities and infrastructure improvements, as well as the preservation of existing affordable housing and the creation of new affordable housing," a spokesperson from Two Bridges Associates said. "Planning for the project is still in the early stages. We look forward to sitting down with community stakeholders very soon to begin what we hope will be a productive, collaborative process over the coming year as our project undergoes environmental review."

Images rendered by City Realty