Abington House (located at, and originally known as, 500 West 30th Street) is a residential building in Chelsea, in Manhattan, New York City just outside the Hudson Yards Redevelopment Project. There are 386 rental apartments at the building, located at the southwest corner of 30th Street and Tenth Avenue. Robert A.M. Stern Architects designed the building, and The Related Companies developed the building. There is about of rental space on the ground floor of the 33-story, -tall building; the building also has a pre-fabricated red brick facade. The building, the first to open in the area under the zoning of the Hudson Yards Redevelopment Project, has 78 permanent units. It started leasing in April 2014, two years after beginning construction in 2012.
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Further reading Arak, Joey. "Brookfield Properties Goes Splittsville" on Curbed.com (November 19, 2007) Chaban, Matt. "Scaling the Towers of Hudson Yards" in The New York Observer (July 12, 2011) Davidson, Justin. "From 0 to 12 Million Square Feet" New York (October 7, 2012). Samtani, Hiten. "Anatomy of a deal: Inside Related/Oxford’s unusual financing of Hudson Yards" in The Real Deal (August 16, 2013) Sheftell, Jason. "New York City officials, developers to break ground on $15 billion mini-city Hudson Yards" New York Daily News (December 4, 2012)
External links Hudson Yards New York City project website Related Companies project website Hudson Yards news and developments