Just remember, that the theatre was already buried behind LED signs and pretty hard to recognize. Ultimately, this is a huge win for the theatre, because when it was at street level, the street noise of cars waiting at that traffic light next to the TKTS booth coming in through the side doors was incredibly distracting and obnoxious. Hopefully raising it above street level will make shows much more enjoyable.
Certainly a great opportunity to wrap it in some acoustic dampening. I'm sure with all the back house stuff getting upgraded to state of the art tech, they'll want to make it acoustically fantastic also. Speaking of, I kind of want to look into seeing if they've said what kinds of speaker arrangements and such they're running with. I would love for a place like this to feature the advanced robotic array and sound design of PK Sound.
This project is really impressive, especially given the age and location of the building. In terms of the actual lifting, this happens more often than you'd probably expect. I work for one of the few companies in the world that specialises in this kind of work, and it's used all the time for raising/moving/installing oil rigs at sea, air traffic control towers etc. Bishop's Bridge near Paddington Station in London was also raised significantly in its entirety to allow for modernisation of the trainline below it. MACE are also doing some really impressive work with their "rising factory" concept lately, essentially a warehouse structure that starts at ground level, within which the lower floors of a new building are built. As the construction progresses, the "factory" climbs up the building all the way up until they finish at the top floor, at which point it's lifted off of the top by a crane. Allows for construction of high-rise buildings to be undertaken in any and all weathers
This was also done with the now-replaced Broadway Bridge in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA in 1973. It was done to allow tall boats through the Arkansas River. The Arkansas River in Little Rock handles a lot of commerce.
ive heard mace have patented the rising factory . have worked on tons of high rises in london but not a mace job yet am really curious to see inside it
How interesting! Best of luck in your career. As a young person I had worked construction and was always fascinated with the coordination of the varied trades in accomplishing the construction.
@@delboy6364 certainly not hundreds of companies performing bespoke lifts at the scale that we typically operate at. We only have around half a dozen or so competitors that we are regularly bidding against for jobs all around the world
Phenomenal effort by the civils, here. Hard hats off to them for preserving this historic auditorium. Something similar was done with the Lyric theatre, Hammersmith UK, back in the 70s although in this case the 1890s auditorium was dismantled and re-erected, embedded into a new building on another location, so not quite as ambitious as this.
I would classify that as pretty ambitious but maybe not as risky/dangerous. Why discredit the hard work done before the 1900’s with much more limited technology/engineering.
@@andrew6658 No discredit intended there, it's just the scale of works by comparison. The Lyric was a painstakingly careful reconstruction of a smaller theatre, still q groundbreaking concept for it's time, whereas this is bodily lifting a complete, and large auditorium by 30ft.
No matter what they do now, the peak of Times Square for me will always be the Toys R Us flagship store. I mean it had everything you could ask for, a dedicated Wonka candy section, a freakin' T-Rex animatronic (now shredded and burned to pieces), an indoor Ferris wheel, huge Lego models, it was the perfect store. When Toys R Us first started closing stores, I was like "well other chains close stores, they will be just fine" but when that flagship store was announced to close because Toys R Us couldn't keep up with the rent, that's when I knew that this was serious. It was replaced by a Gap/Old Navy flagship...ugh
The building that's going under/around it looks awful IMO. Does nothing to set itself apart from the rest of New York, just another building with a large LED screen.
@@danielkrcmar5395 It seems to have an air of screaming "look at me", in a world where most of the time those that do, dont have anything worth paying attention to. Imagine if they did a classic looking building in the middle of that. It would stand out. It wouldn't need to outshine for attention.
Astonishing. I saw “Cage aux Folles” there in the 80’s. Built before sound amplification, the balconies are incredibly steep so as to bring each seat as close to the stage as possible. I was about as high up as you could get, the ceiling seemingly just a few inches above me, Do wish the grand facades of these wonderful old theaters could be restored or at least decluttered. There is so much emphasis on lights, noise, action, on the New York streetscape, it all blends together and, I think, is somehow less effective for that.
Sadly it is very common to lose the facades on these old theaters. My city was notorious for tearing down historical structures during the banking boom in the 80’s. One historical theater survived, it was similar to this as it was the place performers went when they performed here. At some point the facade and lobby were removed and my understanding is that the landmarks commission saved it mid demolition. The theater box is still intact much like this one, and while it’s not going to be raised, a mixed hotel/restaurant/theater development is currently underway. The old theater will be restored, and the new lobby will be all glass like this with a 20+ floor, super narrow hotel.
@@nickakers7985 My home city, originally during the earlier building boom they demolished everything, but later they were required to preserve the facades, So you will have a modern building with the skin of an old building on the front with the modern tower sticking out the top. I actually like it like that, Gives the city center the historic look when in there, but it doesn't hinder growth of the city.
I think it would of been cooler to restore the outside area to a more historical look that makes it stand out in the sea of screens, lights and glass as something with a little more class. For me keeping a more historical look is more impressive than going with just more screens and lights that make it look exactly like the rest of times Square. Just my opinion though.
SpongeBob musical in December 2017: We just made our Broadway debut and we're a hit! We're gonna be here for a long time The Palace Theatre in Summer 2018: *Unfortunately for you, history will not see it that way* Pretty ironic when you know the musical is about a disaster waiting to happen...all jokes aside, this renovation really is a feat. And while it's a shame SpongeBob's run was cut short, it was a small price to pay for salvation. Just love how much effort and care we now put into beautifully preserving historic places, and bringing new life into an iconic theatre, there’s something really special about what they’re doing!
This felt less like love for the Palace Theatre and more an example of corporate greed wanting to squeeze as much money out of a location whilst giving a historical landmark as little respect as legally possible.
You speak as if the theater was some charity. Everything is about money. The theater was built to make money. But the ground floor is much more profitable now as retail space. "Corporate greed wanting to squeeze as much money out of a location" is what built New York.
Incredible engineering, but such a disappointing outward design. They even hide the fact that there's a 100+ year old theatre on the inside, at which point you ask yourself what the point even is. Definitely might act as a hidden gem, but why hide something so beautiful. I guess the first tragedy was the decision to absorb the theatre in 1987 and not leave it as is.
Yeah exactly! It just feels really disrepectful all things considered for the architectural landmark. Both for what happened in 1987 but also whats going on today!
then again that was a decision made like 35 years ago. They did the best they could do with what they had. And an oldschool interior is better than no oldschool theater at all.
I have been to the Palace 3 times over the years for Broadway shows. What they are doing is astonishing and I can’t wait to see it completed to its new glory.
The project is fascinating, the reason is ridiculous. You do this type of plan to move above a flood plain or expand an important mass transit line, not “we really, really believe Times Square needs another trinket store”
5:36 - - *34 hydraulic lifting posts* (under a 48-story building) 6:50 - - *lifting the theater* 30 ft (3 floors) 7:32 - - 7 weeks to lift the theater into place (2/14/22 - 4/5/22)
It's so refreshing to see a video on RUclips where the narrator doesn't poke his face in for no reason at all. This 10 minute video covers what most RUclips publishers couldn't cover in an hour. A few thousand "wannabe's" should watch this and wake up! Well done, a pleasure to watch and so educational.
The amount of money and engineering put into that is crazy. I watch some good urbex channels and there are A LOT of really amazing theatres out there that are just decaying. A double decker theatre and many more. But glad at least this one will be saved again.
Modern construction is absolutely insane. Like yeah, let's casually lift an entire building up 30 ft... while it's INSIDE another building. What a time to be alive.
It wasn't just one block, but many buildings and blocks, though most of the time it was just one or two buildings at a time, they only did an entire block at the same time once. Whats even crazier in some circumstances the buildings continued their daily businesses.
They did a similar thing in Seattle, Washington. The streets were sloppy mud and commerce was seriously affected. The city decided to raise the streets by filling them in up to the property lines, in many cases well over 12-15 feet. The building owners simply added additional stories to the buildings, along with new sidewalks at the new street level. The original existing buildings remained in business, and still are today. Check out Seattle Underground!
So if I understand correctly. They built a theatre, the demolished part of the theatre and built a hotel around it. Then they demolished part of the hotel, raised the theatre and building led screen doors around it. Am I correct?
I think the whole essence of The Palace Theatre originally was to simply be "the place to be" and be the most enticing spot around. Back then, it was to literally look like a palace... Today, it won't look like an old palace on the outside, but it will certainly live up to its original intent of being the place to be.
New York is about making new things and renewing old things. Yes, the new Palace is ultra-mod but in 1913 it was cutting edge when it was built. Who knows? In 50 years maybe they’ll start stacking theaters on top of each other or building them completely underground. That would be cool to step off of a subway and right into a theater lobby!
While not coming with Subway access like you mention, I can think of one theatre: the Sondheim where the stage and orchestra seating are all well below street level. Saw Anything Goes there back in 2012 and it was a very different experience having to go down a flight of stairs just to get to the top of the orchestra section and then walk down grade farther towards the stage. Provides potentially an interesting solution to the perpetual street noise in many theatres in the district (some of course worse than others. Looking at you Imperial…)
They've stacked theatres on top of each other already. Unfortunately the ones in New York have been demolished. There was a theatre on top of another theatre that was on the west side of 97th street and Bway. A third theatre on that block occupied the 96th street corner. All gone. Also on Delancey Street there were a couple of stacked theatres.
It reminds me of the old Museum Hotel in Wellington, New Zealand, which was relocated 180 metres, pivoted 90 degrees, and then shifted from one side of Cable Street to the other. Moving an entire 5 level hotel to the other side of the road in one piece was quite a feat of engineering for such a small country 30 years ago....
They also present the stage like it's something that Times Square needs. It is described as a very busy place and the stage will be high above ground so I imagine how uncomfortable it would be to watch. Just standing and staring up while blocking the path for others...
@@jucicat Basically a terrible idea. Because if other buildings add there own outdoor platforms for "artists" imagine how much overlapping singing they'll be. And the venue is next to a road, so making people look up there will most likely cause accidents.
You must know that structurally raising buildings has happened for decades right? The act of raising the theater isn't difficult, its the execution. Any bloke on the street could tell you to place jacks below the load bearing points and apply pressure.
It's the most populated place in the United States and it had big signs directly explaining what was happening. I agree with your comment but not for this video. A monkey could've found this.
It’s crazy to see that this is essentially the same process that was used to raise downtown Chicago in the 1850’s, I guess if it ain’t broke don’t fix it. But this is a really innovative way to utilize the limited space they have available while saving a historical structure, hopefully it can be used as a blueprint in the future to save older buildings instead of knocking them down for new construction.
Well, it's debatable if a historical structure is being "saved" or if this is not rather the equivalent of plastination - exhibiting conserved entrails.
I think they raised the streets, not the buildings, if you are talking about when they installed the city sewer system. You can see in older neighborhoods where the first floor is now the basement, or "garden apartments", and there are steps to the second floor which is now the main entrance.
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Those property’s there have to be in insanely high demand because of potential profit. I would say the property developer just wanted a Times Square property, got a good deal on it because of the theater headache and was actually available. Restoring the theater and using it I’m sure is for squeezing every little ounce of cash outta the place. Their ROI will be quite incredible.
The "roar of the grease paint and the smell of the crowd"?? I had to play the intro twice to make sure I heard that correctly. But I love the injection of comedy into an engineering video. Nerds just want to have fun!
From someone who has done quite a bit of backstage work... Where is the loading dock on this place? How are they supposed to get an entire show's worth of crap up 30ft? The seats look nice, but what does it look like from the proscenium to the back wall?
The loading dock such as it is was in the back in between the palace and the building behind it on 47th street past the stage door. I would assume that since a lot of the interior not covered by landmark status and therefore not preserved will be reconstructed in such a way as to accommodate this. I imagine that loading dock space will have some sort of a freight elevator I guess in that space? Though my understanding is that the lobby will be relocated to 47th street as well.
@@ActorAaronBooth I'm sure they'd have to engineer a ramp or lift or something. I'm thinking a lift would need to be big enough for a whole truck and/or trailer. Offloading a truck into an elevator then to a stage SUUUUCKS. Especially when it's a David Copperfield show and everything weighs 400,000 pounds. That was definitely one of those shows where if you saw someone doing something sketchy but necessary, you just look away because plausible deniability is a thing.
@@garywatson3778 I found the plans archived through a wikipedia link. They are building a truck elevator just past the stage door to the left (east) of the new Marquee that will be on 47th street. It looks like that will go up to the trap room under the stage.
I’ll never forget seeing the closing show of SpongeBob knowing that they were going to do construction on the theater but never did I know that they were going to raise the theater that is absolutely amazing
@@lucasrem the theater was not demolished. They took the seats out. All the floor and the exterior walls are exactly the same. Only below the first floor was anything removed permanently.
They literally spent hundreds of millions to preserve it so please know something before typing. And yea I’m in the video so I know what I’m talking about (on the engineering/ construction side, not real estate side).
Generally in NYC, theatres are not "lost to time," they're lost to greed magnified by capitalism. Consider the Fifth Avenue Theatre, a beautiful old theatre from the 1890s that was on west 28th street with an entrance on Broadway. All the famous actors and actresses of the time played there and it was a beautiful auditorium, to boot. In the 1890s, 28th street and Bway was the center of the theatre district. By the 1930s, the Fifth Avenue was no longer in the center of Tin Pan Alley (that had moved to 54th street), so the theatre became a movie and burlesque house. By 1938 it was shuttered and in 1939 it was demolished. A five storey parking garage now occupies the site. But if you want to see greed and capitalism at work, look for pictures of the Michigan Theater i Detroit, a movie house that was turned into a garage. They left the upper walls of the theatre, the ceiling and the curtain. It is quite bizarre.
Controlled hydraulic lifting using various plastic like concerete was pioneered and executed first (or most successfully) in the 1980s in Victory BC,, which was lifted SEVERAL METERS.. a 100 year old BRICK. building the EMPRESS HOTEL was lifted in sections sucessfullly with MINIMAL damage… and subsequently renovated. This was managed by JAMES CONSULTING / later Task Construction based in VANCOUVER, BC. I had the pleasure of working with John B. And able to see CBC video documentation and a book written for Fairmont Hotels on the EMPRESS … Subsequently other structure that could be jacked expanded worldwide - both hydraulics, fluids/materials and methodology for lifting.
When I visited Broadway, it was beautiful. The theater was so big, and even when I was in the middle near the back, the music was still great. My favorite part will always be the climax when the chandelier swung above us.
While this is all very impressive, it is a stark reminder that NYC has little to none feelings about preserving anything historical if there's a buck to be made.
Oh no, times Square where the majority of tourists in New York happen to be, is losing its historic vibe, because of money. Everything in NY is made for money.
Plenty of historic buildings in Detroit that people like you just allowed to fade to dust because you think everything a human made earlier is worthy of saving for all eternity
NYC has it nowhere near as bad as most other american cities, who tore up 19th century buildings for highways and parking lots. minus the few ugly postmodern buildings scattered around, NYC is remarkably well preserved.
The Times Square looks over-stimulating. The old building, while too full of billboards already looked at least a modicum better than being assaulted by a building sized display.
@@cashewnuttel9054 I don't like brutalist architecture either, but there's a huge scale of styles in between completely lit up and completely stripped down. For example the original Palace building looked lovely. edit: I also don't know what LED billboards have to do with communism. In case clarification is needed calling anyone from my country of origin "communist" can be taken as an insult.
@@mirta000 I was referring to your "assaulted by a building sized display" in Times Square. Don't communists hate ads because they hate business and corporations? Therefore if communists saw Times Square they would be very upset and want it torn down. I didn't even know you come from a communist country.
@@cashewnuttel9054 display doesn't have to have ads, it can have, for example, propaganda, I'm still going to hate the display as it just emits a lot of unnatural light. Seems like a very stressful environment.
It is unique in that it is a place you go to visit not many people live there, most retail in those areas of New York are purely for the very wealthy and even then they are usually just investment or vacation property for the wealthy. The design makes sense for a commercial building, that also doubles as a theater, you'd want a high def screen so you can advertise your products and your performances. If this was mostly a housing building I would agree with you that it is way to over stimulating, but this is built knowing people are going there to spend money and be entertained. The whole nation is full of nation and state parks if you wish to go somewhere peaceful with less stimulation, there are very few place to go if you want an experience something like this and it probably isn't for people that are easily overstimulated, but most people will be just fine there since it is an experience to your day to day life.
Announced long before pandemic. Retail in TSQ is really suffering, especially major companies like Forever 21, H&M, American eagle who have massive real estate debt issues and are not solid on renewing leases as they expire. The neighboring building has three vacant purpose built floors for a failed NFL experience which had nothing to do with the pandemic and is currently vacant with no prospects. Here's hoping they can fill the space they raised the theater to provide.
I also wonder if this huge bet on the area as one big ad will pay off. There’s also the huge redevelopment of 1 TSQ going on right now that will make 12 of the building’s 20 floors available to brands for experiencial marketing. I guess only time(s) will tell.
if f21 and h&m can't afford to be in business there, the premises are simply overpriced - that's not a problem with retail but with greedy landlords, frankly i don't feel bad about them making nothing for years with empty space because all they've done is acquire space and make it a wasteland at the local economy and everybody else's expense
@@tubester4567 landlords and investment companies fuck over economies everywhere. Has nothing to do with proper capitalism. We had a 130 year old company here that was a mainstay of Dutch shopping and I dare say culture. Always did well. Investors came in, had them sell their own properties and rent them back, because it was 'better', low and behold it toppled over a couple years later. So yeah investment agencies and landlords wanting to recoup their entire investments in 3 years should be banned and frankly executed firing squad style.
Kudos to the workers who did a fantastic job raising this historical site by not just a few feet but 3 stories, this venue can now continue entertaining people for another hundred years, like a fine wine the older it gets, the better!
It's crazy how far we have come, in the past theater was performed on hills of mud, then they build stone amphitheaters, then they build giant indoor palaces to house the audiences, now we put giant holes in the wall, so people can stand in the middle of the road to watch performances with full exposure to the weather for the most authentic experience. Bravo and brava, we really are living in the future.
This project was right across the street from my last job. I met alot of great guys from that job because we worked together to get our projects completed (we had about 150ft of 47th st between us) It was incredible watching the existing tower be demolished and rebuild. They worked around the clock, an incredible project.
I think a lot of people have commented before watching the video. A couple of things to point out. First, the exterior of the building as it exists today is nothing special. The hotel that was built in the 80s essentially wraps around the existing theater and holds little to no architectural significance. Second, there still is something worth preserving. The interior of the building is what is, and was, special. Therefore, moving the theater up to the second story rather than tearing it down it’s not just a silly waste of money, it is protecting the very thing worth protection.
@@jouaienttoi but then it wouldn’t be historical, it would be a replica. There are thousands, if not millions of replicas of the Mona Lisa, yet none of them carry the same value or significance as the original. The same can be said here. Allowing original historic items to be destroyed so long as replicas are made destroys the whole purpose of historic preservation!
Funny, but my one-and-only visit to NYC was in 1987, and I stayed in a hotel about two blocks away. I saw the construction at the Palace Theater, with the skeleton rising right behind it -- the facade was still intact at that time. I wondered how it would all come together. I thought, wow, that's the original Palace Theater everyone used to talk about. I am dismayed the facade was destroyed in the redesign 35 years ago. And to think that already the new skyscraper has become outmoded and has been demolished! Wow. Weird when you can remember it going up.
@@eriksmith6873 i predict this new project will be just as dated in 30-40 years. the only detail is that the palace theatre will have to be lowered or destroyed with it.
Good Lord! That's an incredible story and an incredible series of theatrical quips on your part. The raye at which you delivered them was tiring. Well done!
The hotel that you talked about that also is being raised for this PALACE project was the DOUBLETREE suites. It's hard to believe that such a good hotel is obsolete and being buldozed...it was quite nice 15 or so years ago when I used to stay there.
@@uklad77 It's so strange to even think they'd only protect the appearance of the interior! But yeah, seems it was already gone. 6:20 It looks like only the exterior of the lowest level remained. 7:28
I have my own Broadway-style theatre at my palace. I'm really hoping for a permanent Hamilton production here with my bud Dennis Rodman as the lead role. It'd be a smash hit for one-man audience like me. The rest of the country doesn't have musicals, but they don't need them when they have the talented Moranbong Band doing concerts
This is sick and stupid. Dennis Rodman and Kim Jong-un are clearly men with very troubled minds, and you are making a joke about them? What is wrong with you, Low-Class Person.
The retail in Times Square is always revolving and never stable. So many chains have moved in and out of the 5 street span because rent astronomical and nowadays what you find in retail in TS is the same anywhere else or online. In the 80s that wasn't the case. Multiple financial firms are backing this project and will no doubt sell it off as soon as it's profitable to them.
Well, that's one way to do an end-run around the Ship of Theseus question. You don't need to ask if it's still the original theater after taking it apart and replacing all the parts, if you never take it apart in the first place.
Simply amazing, shows you just how far we've come with new technologies and construction methods.We need to use all of our efforts in other areas as well.
That is amazing. The technology of today is brilliant and what a great idea and so clever. Congratulations to all of you involved in this marvellous project. Bravo.
Love these NYC videos. I’d love to drop a suggestion for the next NYC video you guys do! The Commodore is an upcoming approved building project going up right next to grand central terminal and One Vanderbilt. In fact, it’ll even stand taller than One Vanderbilt. Probably the most controversial aspect of it is that once completed, it will eclipse the Chrysler building, which sits right next to the proposed site, meaning many obstructed views of grand central and the Chrysler building from street level.
Fascinating - Every Generation The Innovation Gets Even More Impressive. I've seen entire building get moved over the decades, but this one is the most interesting.
Just remember, that the theatre was already buried behind LED signs and pretty hard to recognize. Ultimately, this is a huge win for the theatre, because when it was at street level, the street noise of cars waiting at that traffic light next to the TKTS booth coming in through the side doors was incredibly distracting and obnoxious. Hopefully raising it above street level will make shows much more enjoyable.
Certainly a great opportunity to wrap it in some acoustic dampening. I'm sure with all the back house stuff getting upgraded to state of the art tech, they'll want to make it acoustically fantastic also. Speaking of, I kind of want to look into seeing if they've said what kinds of speaker arrangements and such they're running with. I would love for a place like this to feature the advanced robotic array and sound design of PK Sound.
I only can laugh at this 😳 ... travelling to the moon was a crazy idea , lift this building is CRAZIER 😂😂
The sound issues just needed better soundproofing
@@BRAVOOcity-vlog-music we once lifted cities/towns to install modern sewer and plumbing systems
@@nogrammer gang Chicago
This project is really impressive, especially given the age and location of the building. In terms of the actual lifting, this happens more often than you'd probably expect. I work for one of the few companies in the world that specialises in this kind of work, and it's used all the time for raising/moving/installing oil rigs at sea, air traffic control towers etc. Bishop's Bridge near Paddington Station in London was also raised significantly in its entirety to allow for modernisation of the trainline below it.
MACE are also doing some really impressive work with their "rising factory" concept lately, essentially a warehouse structure that starts at ground level, within which the lower floors of a new building are built. As the construction progresses, the "factory" climbs up the building all the way up until they finish at the top floor, at which point it's lifted off of the top by a crane. Allows for construction of high-rise buildings to be undertaken in any and all weathers
This was also done with the now-replaced Broadway Bridge in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA in 1973. It was done to allow tall boats through the Arkansas River. The Arkansas River in Little Rock handles a lot of commerce.
ive heard mace have patented the rising factory . have worked on tons of high rises in london but not a mace job yet am really curious to see inside it
How interesting! Best of luck in your career. As a young person I had worked construction and was always fascinated with the coordination of the varied trades in accomplishing the construction.
Few companies 😬 there's hundreds around the world 😂 the Aussie's lift more houses than anybody build's 😂
@@delboy6364 certainly not hundreds of companies performing bespoke lifts at the scale that we typically operate at. We only have around half a dozen or so competitors that we are regularly bidding against for jobs all around the world
Phenomenal effort by the civils, here. Hard hats off to them for preserving this historic auditorium. Something similar was done with the Lyric theatre, Hammersmith UK, back in the 70s although in this case the 1890s auditorium was dismantled and re-erected, embedded into a new building on another location, so not quite as ambitious as this.
I would classify that as pretty ambitious but maybe not as risky/dangerous. Why discredit the hard work done before the 1900’s with much more limited technology/engineering.
@@ClutchShiftThrottle do you have any context? What you said is lacking sense.
Lol hard hats off to them
@@andrew6658 No discredit intended there, it's just the scale of works by comparison. The Lyric was a painstakingly careful reconstruction of a smaller theatre, still q groundbreaking concept for it's time, whereas this is bodily lifting a complete, and large auditorium by 30ft.
@@phaasch gotcha 👍🏻 and yea very impressive
No matter what they do now, the peak of Times Square for me will always be the Toys R Us flagship store. I mean it had everything you could ask for, a dedicated Wonka candy section, a freakin' T-Rex animatronic (now shredded and burned to pieces), an indoor Ferris wheel, huge Lego models, it was the perfect store. When Toys R Us first started closing stores, I was like "well other chains close stores, they will be just fine" but when that flagship store was announced to close because Toys R Us couldn't keep up with the rent, that's when I knew that this was serious. It was replaced by a Gap/Old Navy flagship...ugh
MTV TRL was better
That store was so cool
@@iBOXRIVER that was the most recent height of Times Square, since then it's went downhill
Couldn’t agree more. That store was insane
Avery, I need you to stop showing up everywhere.
The building that's going under/around it looks awful IMO. Does nothing to set itself apart from the rest of New York, just another building with a large LED screen.
Not even the rest of New York but the rest of the world. It's just another nowhere building.
But they're LED! 😂 LED is a new fire.
@@danielkrcmar5395 It seems to have an air of screaming "look at me", in a world where most of the time those that do, dont have anything worth paying attention to.
Imagine if they did a classic looking building in the middle of that. It would stand out. It wouldn't need to outshine for attention.
Agreed
@@Spike20101000 i am happy to live in Paris ans not the us
I love your videos! They give me a a slight hope for humanity.
It’s incredible what engineers can do today.
Seattle raised a whole city 10-15 ft in 1870-1890 with screw jacks
No it isn't
@@captiannemo1587 Don't forget Chicago around the same time.
@@captiannemo1587 didn’t they just bury a lot of first floors by raising the street levels?
Egyptians - hold my scepter
Astonishing. I saw “Cage aux Folles” there in the 80’s. Built before sound amplification, the balconies are incredibly steep so as to bring each seat as close to the stage as possible. I was about as high up as you could get, the ceiling seemingly just a few inches above me, Do wish the grand facades of these wonderful old theaters could be restored or at least decluttered. There is so much emphasis on lights, noise, action, on the New York streetscape, it all blends together and, I think, is somehow less effective for that.
Sadly it is very common to lose the facades on these old theaters. My city was notorious for tearing down historical structures during the banking boom in the 80’s. One historical theater survived, it was similar to this as it was the place performers went when they performed here. At some point the facade and lobby were removed and my understanding is that the landmarks commission saved it mid demolition. The theater box is still intact much like this one, and while it’s not going to be raised, a mixed hotel/restaurant/theater development is currently underway. The old theater will be restored, and the new lobby will be all glass like this with a 20+ floor, super narrow hotel.
@@nickakers7985 My home city, originally during the earlier building boom they demolished everything, but later they were required to preserve the facades, So you will have a modern building with the skin of an old building on the front with the modern tower sticking out the top. I actually like it like that, Gives the city center the historic look when in there, but it doesn't hinder growth of the city.
I think it would of been cooler to restore the outside area to a more historical look that makes it stand out in the sea of screens, lights and glass as something with a little more class. For me keeping a more historical look is more impressive than going with just more screens and lights that make it look exactly like the rest of times Square. Just my opinion though.
Vintage exterior restoration don’t pay no bills.
@@qwerty112311 Do huge screens pay though? They are an eysore that uses a lot of power
@@Ganliard advertisments pay for that
@@Ganliard yes, they’ll make many millions, if not tens of millions, per year running ads.
@@Ganliard yeah they run ads all day everyday lol
SpongeBob musical in December 2017: We just made our Broadway debut and we're a hit! We're gonna be here for a long time
The Palace Theatre in Summer 2018: *Unfortunately for you, history will not see it that way*
Pretty ironic when you know the musical is about a disaster waiting to happen...all jokes aside, this renovation really is a feat. And while it's a shame SpongeBob's run was cut short, it was a small price to pay for salvation. Just love how much effort and care we now put into beautifully preserving historic places, and bringing new life into an iconic theatre, there’s something really special about what they’re doing!
This felt less like love for the Palace Theatre and more an example of corporate greed wanting to squeeze as much money out of a location whilst giving a historical landmark as little respect as legally possible.
I think that's pretty much midtown Manhattan in a nut shell.
4:37 "we needed to move the theater out of the way". I think this says it all.
@@ereisenheim9896 "need". I don't think they "needed" to do anything.
Yep
You speak as if the theater was some charity. Everything is about money. The theater was built to make money. But the ground floor is much more profitable now as retail space. "Corporate greed wanting to squeeze as much money out of a location" is what built New York.
As a civil engineer, this channel always blows my mind! Keep up the good work
Incredible engineering, but such a disappointing outward design. They even hide the fact that there's a 100+ year old theatre on the inside, at which point you ask yourself what the point even is. Definitely might act as a hidden gem, but why hide something so beautiful. I guess the first tragedy was the decision to absorb the theatre in 1987 and not leave it as is.
Yeah exactly! It just feels really disrepectful all things considered for the architectural landmark. Both for what happened in 1987 but also whats going on today!
Theatre inside big LCD box...
@@VVashabi Sounds like my ex
then again that was a decision made like 35 years ago. They did the best they could do with what they had. And an oldschool interior is better than no oldschool theater at all.
In the end the point of all this is just making money.
I have been to the Palace 3 times over the years for Broadway shows. What they are doing is astonishing and I can’t wait to see it completed to its new glory.
The project is fascinating, the reason is ridiculous. You do this type of plan to move above a flood plain or expand an important mass transit line, not “we really, really believe Times Square needs another trinket store”
Wow, a truly phenomenal effort by all involved, and truly a marvel of Engineering. It’s stuff like this that makes me proud to be an Engineer.
5:36 - - *34 hydraulic lifting posts* (under a 48-story building)
6:50 - - *lifting the theater* 30 ft (3 floors)
7:32 - - 7 weeks to lift the theater into place (2/14/22 - 4/5/22)
It's so refreshing to see a video on RUclips where the narrator doesn't poke his face in for no reason at all. This 10 minute video covers what most RUclips publishers couldn't cover in an hour. A few thousand "wannabe's" should watch this and wake up! Well done, a pleasure to watch and so educational.
The amount of money and engineering put into that is crazy. I watch some good urbex channels and there are A LOT of really amazing theatres out there that are just decaying. A double decker theatre and many more. But glad at least this one will be saved again.
I walk by this everyday and I never knew or noticed that they raised the structure. Wow honestly speechless work.
Modern construction is absolutely insane. Like yeah, let's casually lift an entire building up 30 ft... while it's INSIDE another building. What a time to be alive.
Wait till you see a 200ft tall building being driven down the road (and onto a barge to transport it to a new continent)…
you should look into how they adjusted/moved the buildings when they widened the Erie Canal, and that was in the mid 1800s!
Interesting story. Back in the 1850s they did a similar thing in Chicago. Instead of one building it was an entire city block, but only 14 feet.
It wasn't just one block, but many buildings and blocks, though most of the time it was just one or two buildings at a time, they only did an entire block at the same time once. Whats even crazier in some circumstances the buildings continued their daily businesses.
I'm sorry, which block?
Please expand, why did they lift it?
@@kmilorestre5223 after a cholera outbreak in the 1850s they raised it to put in sewers.
They did a similar thing in Seattle, Washington. The streets were sloppy mud and commerce was seriously affected. The city decided to raise the streets by filling them in up to the property lines, in many cases well over 12-15 feet. The building owners simply added additional stories to the buildings, along with new sidewalks at the new street level. The original existing buildings remained in business, and still are today. Check out Seattle Underground!
So if I understand correctly. They built a theatre, the demolished part of the theatre and built a hotel around it. Then they demolished part of the hotel, raised the theatre and building led screen doors around it. Am I correct?
No, no. You’re not understanding... it’s a ‘landmark’ status building. Lolol
Only God knows.
I think the whole essence of The Palace Theatre originally was to simply be "the place to be" and be the most enticing spot around. Back then, it was to literally look like a palace... Today, it won't look like an old palace on the outside, but it will certainly live up to its original intent of being the place to be.
New York is about making new things and renewing old things. Yes, the new Palace is ultra-mod but in 1913 it was cutting edge when it was built. Who knows? In 50 years maybe they’ll start stacking theaters on top of each other or building them completely underground. That would be cool to step off of a subway and right into a theater lobby!
While not coming with Subway access like you mention, I can think of one theatre: the Sondheim where the stage and orchestra seating are all well below street level. Saw Anything Goes there back in 2012 and it was a very different experience having to go down a flight of stairs just to get to the top of the orchestra section and then walk down grade farther towards the stage. Provides potentially an interesting solution to the perpetual street noise in many theatres in the district (some of course worse than others. Looking at you Imperial…)
Reminds me of the Criterion theatre in London, its about 4 or 5 flights of stairs just to get to the upper circle
You can hear the subway when you're in Carnegie's Merkin Hall. That's not a good thing.
Hopefully in 50 years the train will be ultra silent! Anything is possible in the Big Apple! 🤗
They've stacked theatres on top of each other already. Unfortunately the ones in New York have been demolished. There was a theatre on top of another theatre that was on the west side of 97th street and Bway. A third theatre on that block occupied the 96th street corner. All gone. Also on Delancey Street there were a couple of stacked theatres.
It reminds me of the old Museum Hotel in Wellington, New Zealand, which was relocated 180 metres, pivoted 90 degrees, and then shifted from one side of Cable Street to the other. Moving an entire 5 level hotel to the other side of the road in one piece was quite a feat of engineering for such a small country 30 years ago....
Cool story bro
Not to mention the fear of earthquake striking during the move.
Another big screen, just what Times Square needed.
Wish they would bring back the drugs and whores
They also present the stage like it's something that Times Square needs. It is described as a very busy place and the stage will be high above ground so I imagine how uncomfortable it would be to watch. Just standing and staring up while blocking the path for others...
@@jucicat Basically a terrible idea. Because if other buildings add there own outdoor platforms for "artists" imagine how much overlapping singing they'll be.
And the venue is next to a road, so making people look up there will most likely cause accidents.
Amazing engineering and humanity of working through problem solving.
i like how b1m has started becoming funnier and a lot more lighthearted with its videos...love whoever is the new writer for you guys
My favorite RUclipsr atm
Did you say, "The roar of the grease paint and the smell of the crowd?" ... Pretty funny!!!
its actually the name of a musical lol
Thanks. I didn't know that and just thought it was supposed to be "the smell of the greasepaint, the roar of the crowd", but I was fooled.
"The roar of the Greasepaint, the smell of the Crowd..." well done! Very interesting video too
The most impressive thing is that all the tradesmen found parking.
They just parked underneath the theater, Silly.
Your videos are amazing. Best content on yt at the moment.
Imagine working at this theatre and time traveling to find it 30 feet higher than it once was.
This proves that anything really is possible!
No, if they accomplish it, it proves this is possible.
Well, no.
You must know that structurally raising buildings has happened for decades right? The act of raising the theater isn't difficult, its the execution. Any bloke on the street could tell you to place jacks below the load bearing points and apply pressure.
@@JfkNeedsWindWall More than just decades. The central section of Chicago was raised during 1855-1865. They even lifted entire blocks in one go!
@@JfkNeedsWindWall You make it all sound so simple. It's hardly worthy of the news.
I love how you manage to find these super cool architectural projects that I’ve never heard of
It's the most populated place in the United States and it had big signs directly explaining what was happening.
I agree with your comment but not for this video. A monkey could've found this.
Excellent Fred. Love B1M videos.
"The roar of greasepaint and the smell of the crowd!" 🤣
Once again you give us small look into the world of engineering, the folks that do it all and everything else! Amazing it all is. Love this stuff!
I would like to see some videos about Somalia and Haiti for a change.
Well done. I enjoyed that very much. Informative, well narrated and it held my interest throughout. Deserves a subscribe and a like
It’s crazy to see that this is essentially the same process that was used to raise downtown Chicago in the 1850’s, I guess if it ain’t broke don’t fix it. But this is a really innovative way to utilize the limited space they have available while saving a historical structure, hopefully it can be used as a blueprint in the future to save older buildings instead of knocking them down for new construction.
Seeing pictures of that process in Chicago was fascinating.
Well, it's debatable if a historical structure is being "saved" or if this is not rather the equivalent of plastination - exhibiting conserved entrails.
By rules and laws heritage buildings should be preserved where they are itself.
I think they raised the streets, not the buildings, if you are talking about when they installed the city sewer system. You can see in older neighborhoods where the first floor is now the basement, or "garden apartments", and there are steps to the second floor which is now the main entrance.
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Impressive accomplishment, the work behind it is spectacular ! Congrats to every people that worked on this ! Nice video as always
Those property’s there have to be in insanely high demand because of potential profit. I would say the property developer just wanted a Times Square property, got a good deal on it because of the theater headache and was actually available. Restoring the theater and using it I’m sure is for squeezing every little ounce of cash outta the place. Their ROI will be quite incredible.
The "roar of the grease paint and the smell of the crowd"?? I had to play the intro twice to make sure I heard that correctly. But I love the injection of comedy into an engineering video. Nerds just want to have fun!
I had to turn on the sub-titles to verify what I thought I was hearing! The best smelling crowd in the world! 😂
Classic British humor
Unbelievable----Excellent video---👏👍----Thank you!
From someone who has done quite a bit of backstage work...
Where is the loading dock on this place? How are they supposed to get an entire show's worth of crap up 30ft? The seats look nice, but what does it look like from the proscenium to the back wall?
The loading dock such as it is was in the back in between the palace and the building behind it on 47th street past the stage door. I would assume that since a lot of the interior not covered by landmark status and therefore not preserved will be reconstructed in such a way as to accommodate this. I imagine that loading dock space will have some sort of a freight elevator I guess in that space? Though my understanding is that the lobby will be relocated to 47th street as well.
@@ActorAaronBooth I'm sure they'd have to engineer a ramp or lift or something. I'm thinking a lift would need to be big enough for a whole truck and/or trailer. Offloading a truck into an elevator then to a stage SUUUUCKS. Especially when it's a David Copperfield show and everything weighs 400,000 pounds. That was definitely one of those shows where if you saw someone doing something sketchy but necessary, you just look away because plausible deniability is a thing.
@@garywatson3778 I found the plans archived through a wikipedia link. They are building a truck elevator just past the stage door to the left (east) of the new Marquee that will be on 47th street. It looks like that will go up to the trap room under the stage.
@@ActorAaronBooth Nice. I would enjoy watching them load-in and build a show there probably more than watching the show itself. :D
I’ll never forget seeing the closing show of SpongeBob knowing that they were going to do construction on the theater but never did I know that they were going to raise the theater that is absolutely amazing
I really wasn’t expecting the Spongebob musical to be as good as it was haha it might be one of my favourite Broadway shows
Marvelous that the interior has survived and been restored. So many great theaters have been lost to time. Well done to everyone who was involved.
Theater is demolished, the intreur is saved only, this is Penn station levels!
real estate skum people!
@@lucasrem the theater was not demolished. They took the seats out. All the floor and the exterior walls are exactly the same. Only below the first floor was anything removed permanently.
They literally spent hundreds of millions to preserve it so please know something before typing. And yea I’m in the video so I know what I’m talking about (on the engineering/ construction side, not real estate side).
@@nybirdman imma ask this for someone, is there a backstage elevator to carry up props and stuff?
Generally in NYC, theatres are not "lost to time," they're lost to greed magnified by capitalism. Consider the Fifth Avenue Theatre, a beautiful old theatre from the 1890s that was on west 28th street with an entrance on Broadway. All the famous actors and actresses of the time played there and it was a beautiful auditorium, to boot. In the 1890s, 28th street and Bway was the center of the theatre district. By the 1930s, the Fifth Avenue was no longer in the center of Tin Pan Alley (that had moved to 54th street), so the theatre became a movie and burlesque house. By 1938 it was shuttered and in 1939 it was demolished. A five storey parking garage now occupies the site. But if you want to see greed and capitalism at work, look for pictures of the Michigan Theater i Detroit, a movie house that was turned into a garage. They left the upper walls of the theatre, the ceiling and the curtain. It is quite bizarre.
Incredible work
Wow, I didn't relize you could do that. Great visuals and easy to follow explanations. Top shelf video as always mate. Keep them coming. 10m next 💯
my eyes their burning from all the lights
Pretty amazing! I see the construction in the background of the Times Square livestream and never knew what was going on. Now I do 👍👍
Controlled hydraulic lifting using various plastic like concerete was pioneered and executed first (or most successfully) in the 1980s in Victory BC,, which was lifted SEVERAL METERS.. a 100 year old BRICK. building the EMPRESS HOTEL was lifted in sections sucessfullly with MINIMAL damage… and subsequently renovated. This was managed by JAMES CONSULTING / later Task Construction based in VANCOUVER, BC. I had the pleasure of working with John B. And able to see CBC video documentation and a book written for Fairmont Hotels on the EMPRESS … Subsequently other structure that could be jacked expanded worldwide - both hydraulics, fluids/materials and methodology for lifting.
When I visited Broadway, it was beautiful. The theater was so big, and even when I was in the middle near the back, the music was still great. My favorite part will always be the climax when the chandelier swung above us.
Different theatre, but, yes, very exciting.
Top quality content and engineering.
While this is all very impressive, it is a stark reminder that NYC has little to none feelings about preserving anything historical if there's a buck to be made.
All for the great god money
@@keith1222 Capitalism über alles.
Oh no, times Square where the majority of tourists in New York happen to be, is losing its historic vibe, because of money. Everything in NY is made for money.
Plenty of historic buildings in Detroit that people like you just allowed to fade to dust because you think everything a human made earlier is worthy of saving for all eternity
NYC has it nowhere near as bad as most other american cities, who tore up 19th century buildings for highways and parking lots. minus the few ugly postmodern buildings scattered around, NYC is remarkably well preserved.
The Times Square looks over-stimulating. The old building, while too full of billboards already looked at least a modicum better than being assaulted by a building sized display.
The communists will be upset.
@@cashewnuttel9054 I don't like brutalist architecture either, but there's a huge scale of styles in between completely lit up and completely stripped down. For example the original Palace building looked lovely.
edit: I also don't know what LED billboards have to do with communism. In case clarification is needed calling anyone from my country of origin "communist" can be taken as an insult.
@@mirta000 I was referring to your "assaulted by a building sized display" in Times Square.
Don't communists hate ads because they hate business and corporations? Therefore if communists saw Times Square they would be very upset and want it torn down.
I didn't even know you come from a communist country.
@@cashewnuttel9054 display doesn't have to have ads, it can have, for example, propaganda, I'm still going to hate the display as it just emits a lot of unnatural light. Seems like a very stressful environment.
It is unique in that it is a place you go to visit not many people live there, most retail in those areas of New York are purely for the very wealthy and even then they are usually just investment or vacation property for the wealthy.
The design makes sense for a commercial building, that also doubles as a theater, you'd want a high def screen so you can advertise your products and your performances. If this was mostly a housing building I would agree with you that it is way to over stimulating, but this is built knowing people are going there to spend money and be entertained.
The whole nation is full of nation and state parks if you wish to go somewhere peaceful with less stimulation, there are very few place to go if you want an experience something like this and it probably isn't for people that are easily overstimulated, but most people will be just fine there since it is an experience to your day to day life.
Announced long before pandemic. Retail in TSQ is really suffering, especially major companies like Forever 21, H&M, American eagle who have massive real estate debt issues and are not solid on renewing leases as they expire. The neighboring building has three vacant purpose built floors for a failed NFL experience which had nothing to do with the pandemic and is currently vacant with no prospects. Here's hoping they can fill the space they raised the theater to provide.
Because what we need is more retail.
I also wonder if this huge bet on the area as one big ad will pay off. There’s also the huge redevelopment of 1 TSQ going on right now that will make 12 of the building’s 20 floors available to brands for experiencial marketing. I guess only time(s) will tell.
if f21 and h&m can't afford to be in business there, the premises are simply overpriced - that's not a problem with retail but with greedy landlords, frankly i don't feel bad about them making nothing for years with empty space because all they've done is acquire space and make it a wasteland at the local economy and everybody else's expense
@@StephenHogan Right, New York real estate is fixed by a greedy cartel. Normal values of capitalism and supply and demand dont apply in New York.
@@tubester4567 landlords and investment companies fuck over economies everywhere.
Has nothing to do with proper capitalism.
We had a 130 year old company here that was a mainstay of Dutch shopping and I dare say culture. Always did well.
Investors came in, had them sell their own properties and rent them back, because it was 'better', low and behold it toppled over a couple years later.
So yeah investment agencies and landlords wanting to recoup their entire investments in 3 years should be banned and frankly executed firing squad style.
So much better than just knocking a building down, history cannot be built once its gone, well done for making history continue
This theater is about to take-off.
Quite literally
Wow,this is gonna be incredible
00:01 "Aaaah" replay button
That was fucking hilarious
After the big guns, this is the closest we can come 😅
Kudos to the workers who did a fantastic job raising this historical site by not just a few feet but 3 stories, this venue can now continue entertaining people for another hundred years, like a fine wine the older it gets, the better!
i'm sorry mate but the définitive channel for puns and bad joles is king "Half As interesting" XD Love your vids !
It's crazy how far we have come, in the past theater was performed on hills of mud, then they build stone amphitheaters, then they build giant indoor palaces to house the audiences, now we put giant holes in the wall, so people can stand in the middle of the road to watch performances with full exposure to the weather for the most authentic experience. Bravo and brava, we really are living in the future.
This project was right across the street from my last job. I met alot of great guys from that job because we worked together to get our projects completed (we had about 150ft of 47th st between us) It was incredible watching the existing tower be demolished and rebuild. They worked around the clock, an incredible project.
No idea how I hadn't heard about this before saw this video but that's incredible, thanks B1M
I think a lot of people have commented before watching the video. A couple of things to point out. First, the exterior of the building as it exists today is nothing special. The hotel that was built in the 80s essentially wraps around the existing theater and holds little to no architectural significance. Second, there still is something worth preserving. The interior of the building is what is, and was, special. Therefore, moving the theater up to the second story rather than tearing it down it’s not just a silly waste of money, it is protecting the very thing worth protection.
Except it would have been cheaper to just rebuild it and make it look historical.
@@jouaienttoi it’s a historic landmark. You cannot take it down and rebuild it. The City won’t allow it.
@@jouaienttoi but then it wouldn’t be historical, it would be a replica. There are thousands, if not millions of replicas of the Mona Lisa, yet none of them carry the same value or significance as the original. The same can be said here. Allowing original historic items to be destroyed so long as replicas are made destroys the whole purpose of historic preservation!
Funny, but my one-and-only visit to NYC was in 1987, and I stayed in a hotel about two blocks away. I saw the construction at the Palace Theater, with the skeleton rising right behind it -- the facade was still intact at that time. I wondered how it would all come together. I thought, wow, that's the original Palace Theater everyone used to talk about. I am dismayed the facade was destroyed in the redesign 35 years ago. And to think that already the new skyscraper has become outmoded and has been demolished! Wow. Weird when you can remember it going up.
@@eriksmith6873 i predict this new project will be just as dated in 30-40 years. the only detail is that the palace theatre will have to be lowered or destroyed with it.
Thank you for the video, and all the partners who supplied video for this presentation.
I absolutely love that he gives a full context of the building and why it’s happening.
Haha yeah 😏
Wow only in NYC. Thank you for the great video. Can’t wait to check it out in person.
Good Lord! That's an incredible story and an incredible series of theatrical quips on your part. The raye at which you delivered them was tiring. Well done!
Love how these developers just slap colors to modern looking buildings and call it “state of the art” lmao
THE SHOW MUST GO ON!
The hotel that you talked about that also is being raised for this PALACE project was the DOUBLETREE suites. It's hard to believe that such a good hotel is obsolete and being buldozed...it was quite nice 15 or so years ago when I used to stay there.
Nothing is ever good enough in America , keeps people working at least bad for a historical point of view tho
The ingenuity of man is boundless, shame we can't learn to get along with each other.
So the complete historic facade gets just covered up with an LED screen...!?!
I don't think the outside exists. At 4:15 the video explains that only the inside was listed. The rest was demolished in the 1980s
@@uklad77 It's so strange to even think they'd only protect the appearance of the interior! But yeah, seems it was already gone. 6:20
It looks like only the exterior of the lowest level remained. 7:28
"The roar of the grease paint and the smell of the crowd" LOL
I have my own Broadway-style theatre at my palace. I'm really hoping for a permanent Hamilton production here with my bud Dennis Rodman as the lead role. It'd be a smash hit for one-man audience like me.
The rest of the country doesn't have musicals, but they don't need them when they have the talented Moranbong Band doing concerts
I would love to come and can I stay at the "Hotel of DOOM", peace!
This is sick and stupid. Dennis Rodman and Kim Jong-un are clearly men with very troubled minds, and you are making a joke about them? What is wrong with you, Low-Class Person.
Great work...conservation and progress makes happy showtime.
Don't forget about the time the entirety of chicago was raised 2 meters on jackscrews and then burned down in 1871.
Oh no lol
Wow, AMAZING, both the construction work and the documentation of it; thank you!
The retail in Times Square is always revolving and never stable. So many chains have moved in and out of the 5 street span because rent astronomical and nowadays what you find in retail in TS is the same anywhere else or online. In the 80s that wasn't the case. Multiple financial firms are backing this project and will no doubt sell it off as soon as it's profitable to them.
Well, that's one way to do an end-run around the Ship of Theseus question. You don't need to ask if it's still the original theater after taking it apart and replacing all the parts, if you never take it apart in the first place.
They lifted a whole theater and kept it level and I can't tell you how angry it makes me that I can't even lay a few floor tiles keeping them level!
These are professionals.
Do not attempt this at home.
:)
The amount of puns in this episode was impressive.
Someone should make a video about it.
Simply amazing, shows you just how far we've come with new technologies and construction methods.We need to use all of our efforts in other areas as well.
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That is amazing. The technology of today is brilliant and what a great idea and so clever. Congratulations to all of you involved in this marvellous project. Bravo.
This is so cutting edge !!!
Love these NYC videos. I’d love to drop a suggestion for the next NYC video you guys do! The Commodore is an upcoming approved building project going up right next to grand central terminal and One Vanderbilt. In fact, it’ll even stand taller than One Vanderbilt. Probably the most controversial aspect of it is that once completed, it will eclipse the Chrysler building, which sits right next to the proposed site, meaning many obstructed views of grand central and the Chrysler building from street level.
What an uplifting story
Absolutely incredible, I am booking tickets to New York now so that we can go and visit this amazing theatre. Well done to all the construction team.
insane feat of engineering for one of NYCs most ungodly creations
Come on, Fred. We _know_ you can lift it. 💪😉
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Well .. THATS pretty freakin interesting ! Here is to American ingenuity ! Also bravo for keeping Times Sq so over the top exciting .
Thanks engineers not architect for doing that magnificent move.
Fascinating - Every Generation The Innovation Gets Even More Impressive. I've seen entire building get moved over the decades, but this one is the most interesting.
How to make Times Square even tackier.