Dive summary:

• In New York City's Manhattan island, it is midtown, the land of numbered streets and avenues, that has the skyscrapers that form an image the world over of what "New York" means, but the tall buildings are moving south into the older, lower part of the borough.
• A project known as 56 Leonard in the "triangle below Canal Street, Tribeca, will go 60 stories above the area of much shorter industrial and commercial buildings.
• The developer partners in the project plan 145 residences in the tower, which will have nine floors of penthouses and some five-bedroom units as large as 6,400 square feet.

From the article:

"This iconic tower will be a sculpture in the Manhattan skyline," Izak Senbahar, Alexico Group’s president, says. ...