The Insane Plan to Lift a New York Theatre
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- How one construction team raised the roof -- literally.
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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
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
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 most impressive thing is that all the tradesmen found parking.
They just parked underneath the theater, Silly.
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.
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
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
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!
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
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 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.
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.
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”
I've walked through that spot many times and thought it was just an ordinary rehab job, but this is way more complex than I imagined. And in the middle of busy Times Square!
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!
Amazing engineering and humanity of working through problem solving.
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.
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.
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.
I walk by this everyday and I never knew or noticed that they raised the structure. Wow honestly speechless work.
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.
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 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.
Impressive accomplishment, the work behind it is spectacular ! Congrats to every people that worked on this ! Nice video as always
Imagine working at this theatre and time traveling to find it 30 feet higher than it once was.
Well done. I enjoyed that very much. Informative, well narrated and it held my interest throughout. Deserves a subscribe and a like
I still don’t know how it’s possible without it falling apart
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!
Pretty amazing! I see the construction in the background of the Times Square livestream and never knew what was going on. Now I do 👍👍
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!
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.
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 💯
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.
Excellent Fred. Love B1M videos.
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.
Wow, AMAZING, both the construction work and the documentation of it; thank you!
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 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.
Thank you for the video, and all the partners who supplied video for this presentation.
No idea how I hadn't heard about this before saw this video but that's incredible, thanks B1M
As a civil engineer, this channel always blows my mind! Keep up the good work
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.
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.
Amazing video, and amazing work by everyone involved 👏🏽
"The roar of greasepaint and the smell of the crowd!" 🤣
“We should take the Palace Theatre and push it somewhere else.”
- Patrick probably
Underrated comment 😂❤
Great work...conservation and progress makes happy showtime.
So much better than just knocking a building down, history cannot be built once its gone, well done for making history continue
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.
Your videos are amazing. Best content on yt at the moment.
THE SHOW MUST GO ON!
How to make Times Square even tackier.
I absolutely love that he gives a full context of the building and why it’s happening.
Haha yeah 😏
Just spectacular - Compliments to the Construction team
I'm really amazed by this accomplishment, it really shows that anything is possible.
It's so refreshing to see a video on CZcams where the narrator doesn't poke his face in for no reason at all. This 10 minute video covers what most CZcams 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.
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
Amazing bit of engineering. Well done to this team.
I love your videos! They give me a a slight hope for humanity.
This theater is about to take-off.
Quite literally
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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Amazing job by all involved.
Another belter & great video squire 👏🙏🇬🇧
People can complain all they want. But they went through the effort to not have it demolished and change is the only way for cities to grow. Besides from an engineering standpoint it's really impressive.
They CANT demolish it under the landmark status even if they wanted to. -_- this was the outcome of greed.
They went through the effort because it was illegal to demolish it, don't act like they did this out of respect for the history of the theatre, if it wasn't marked as a historical landmark it would have been demolished in the 80s. It's an engineering marvel but don't act like they did this out of the goodness of their hearts
@@FredGreen182 The question to ask is what would have happened to the building if they did not do this. There are many grade1listed buildings in the UK in ruins as no one wants the cost and limitations of working on them.
@@paulbailey1215 The Palace Theatre in Manchester is older than the one in New York, its never had anything build OVER it, around it or covered in LED. The Opera House in Manchester is just as old as the Palace in NYC & again... Its outside is in pristine historical condition. No hotels or malls or LEDs.
@@paulbailey1215 Except the the Palace theater is profitable, so nothing would happen to it.
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 only in NYC. Thank you for the great video. Can’t wait to check it out in person.
Wow! Amazing work.
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
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.
"The roar of the Greasepaint, the smell of the Crowd..." well done! Very interesting video too
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Love how these developers just slap colors to modern looking buildings and call it “state of the art” lmao
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.
So many puns, love it almost as much as I love the engineering teams that are accomplishing this project!
Congrats to everyone involved & especially the talented engineers & tradespeople involved.
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.
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.
This is so cutting edge !!!
Great effort, beautiful to watch
Fantastic feat of coordinated engineering. In such a confined mega expensive area congrats to all. Another great episode of B1M & addition to my bucket list for sure.
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.
Awesomely beautiful!
Incredible work
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
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.
What an uplifting story
Amazing work and it looks stunning...looking forward to seeing the finished building.
And the spongebob Musical was great, btw ;)
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.
If only they would take the outside design into consideration, all these old buildings had beautiful floraling etched into it to statues and just much more, not everything besides the lights looks like an office building or a prison covered in lights.
Thank you for sharing this video..
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 "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
Imagine being the guy responsible for this theatre lift. I'm getting stress ulcers just thinking about it.
The amount of puns in this episode was impressive.
Someone should make a video about it.
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.
They should keep the old entrance intact and let people try to exit the theatre through it, only to walk onto a terrace with glass floor and a friendly reminder that the building was yeeted up by 30 feet.
The old entrance was destroyed when the hotel was built in the 80’s. Only the interior is left.
Let’s take an iconic building and put a giant tv screen around it. Why? Make it look like the beautiful historic building that it is.
I'm with you, Travis.
Yes, well, “Back to the Future” is up the street, for now. As preservation agreements expire, theatres will remain theatres only as long as the ROI is satisfactory for the owners of the property.
i was HOPING you guys would do a video on this
I've seen some crazy things, but this is definitely up there with the maddest!
Thanks engineers not architect for doing that magnificent move.