A quiet developer built one of Midtown’s loudest new towers. 520 Fifth Avenue climbs 1,000 feet over the corner of Fifth and West 43rd Street, becoming the tallest building on Fifth Avenue near Bryant Park and the Empire State Building. Mickey Rabina’s firm developed it, KPF designed it and serves as architect of record, and the tower is finishing construction in 2026.
Project Scope
- An 88-story supertall holding about 450,000 square feet of mixed program above a busy Midtown corner.
- 100 luxury condominiums on the upper floors, with sales already launched as the tower neared completion.
- Roughly 25 floors of boutique office space below the residences, plus ground-floor retail.
- A members’ club and amenity floors woven through the stack, designed to read as a single slender shaft.
- Developed by Rabina, designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox.
Why It Matters
Most Midtown supertalls cluster along 57th Street’s Billionaires’ Row. 520 Fifth plants a tall, slim residential tower a dozen blocks south, on an avenue better known for retail flagships than penthouses. The site is tight and the program is mixed, condos over offices over shops, which forces a structural and elevator puzzle into a narrow footprint. It joins a New York generation of slender residential high-rises that includes One High Line, betting that buyers will pay for height and a Fifth Avenue address a few blocks off the usual map.
Project Team & Details
| Developer | Rabina |
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| Owner / Client | Rabina |
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| Architect | Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF) |
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| Status | Topped Out |
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| Delivery Method | Design-Bid-Build |
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| Funding Source | Private |
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