The pin's event is the topping out, which New York YIMBY^[3] and Connect CRE both reported on 24-25 October 2024 and which Wikipedia^[2] gives as October 2024. The previous date of 1 June 2026 was Wikipedia's estimated completion date, not the topping out. No source gives the exact day, so this is dated to the last day of that month as an estimate.

Start: Oct 31, 202450% CONFIDENCEsource

520 Fifth Avenue Tops Out

A 1,001-foot Kohn Pedersen Fox supertall at 520 Fifth Avenue, one of the first new Manhattan skyscrapers in decades built with a masonry-style terracotta facade instead of glass.

520 Fifth Avenue is a 1,001 ft (305 m), 76-floor mixed-use supertall at Fifth Avenue and 43rd Street, designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox and developed by Mickey Rabina
Construction started 1 March 2022; the tower topped out in October 2024, steelwork finished at the end of December 2024, and completion is estimated for 1 June 2026
It has about 100 residences on the upper floors (85% sold by February 2025), about 200,000 sq ft of offices on floors 9-34, restaurants, and the private club Moss
The facade is terracotta on the lower levels with painted aluminum above, rather than an all-glass skin; the pencil tower has a 15:1 height-to-width ratio and a 500-short-ton tuned mass damper
Financing included $540 million from Bank OZK and Carlyle in 2022 and a $640 million Carlyle refinancing in December 2025

Project specs

Source

Height

76 stories

Stated by the source · Figures as stated in the pin's own cited summary.

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[1]50%
youtube.com/watch?v=BvgdVeKtj9M
youtube.com· Posted Sep 14, 2026· Starts Oct 31, 2024 ✓· 52% of score
The pin's event is the topping out, which New York YIMBY^[3] and Connect CRE both reported on 24-25 October 2024 and which Wikipedia^[2] gives as October 2024. The previous date of 1 June 2026 was Wikipedia's estimated completion date, not the topping out. No source gives the exact day, so this is dated to the last day of that month as an estimate.
[2]75%
520 Fifth Avenue – Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org· Published Aug 1, 2026· 44% of score
Wikipedia states "as of 2025, construction is expected to be finished on June 1, 2026", an exact match to the pin's stored date, though this refers to overall project completion rather than the topping-out event named in the pin's title.
[3]84%
KPF's 520 Fifth Avenue Supertall Tops Out Over Midtown, Manhattan – New York YIMBY
newyorkyimby.com· Published Oct 1, 2024· 3% of score
New York YIMBY reports 520 Fifth Avenue "was topped out" by October 2024, supporting the pin's title claim, though this predates the pin's stored 1 June 2026 date by about twenty months - that stored date appears to track the building's expected completion rather than its topping-out.

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520 Fifth Avenue Tops Out

A 1,001-foot Kohn Pedersen Fox supertall at 520 Fifth Avenue, one of the first new Manhattan skyscrapers in decades built with a masonry-style terracotta facade instead of glass.

520 Fifth Avenue is a 1,001 ft (305 m), 76-floor mixed-use supertall at Fifth Avenue and 43rd Street, designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox and developed by Mickey Rabina
Construction started 1 March 2022; the tower topped out in October 2024, steelwork finished at the end of December 2024, and completion is estimated for 1 June 2026
It has about 100 residences on the upper floors (85% sold by February 2025), about 200,000 sq ft of offices on floors 9-34, restaurants, and the private club Moss
The facade is terracotta on the lower levels with painted aluminum above, rather than an all-glass skin; the pencil tower has a 15:1 height-to-width ratio and a 500-short-ton tuned mass damper
Financing included $540 million from Bank OZK and Carlyle in 2022 and a $640 million Carlyle refinancing in December 2025

Project specs

Source

Height

76 stories

Stated by the source · Figures as stated in the pin's own cited summary.

References 362% CONFIDENCE

[1]50%

youtube.com/watch?v=BvgdVeKtj9M

youtube.com· Posted Sep 14, 2026· Starts Oct 31, 2024 ✓· 52% of score

[2]75%

520 Fifth Avenue – Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org· Published Aug 1, 2026· 44% of score

Wikipedia states "as of 2025, construction is expected to be finished on June 1, 2026", an exact match to the pin's stored date, though this refers to overall project completion rather than the topping-out event named in the pin's title.

[3]84%

KPF's 520 Fifth Avenue Supertall Tops Out Over Midtown, Manhattan – New York YIMBY

newyorkyimby.com· Published Oct 1, 2024· 3% of score

New York YIMBY reports 520 Fifth Avenue "was topped out" by October 2024, supporting the pin's title claim, though this predates the pin's stored 1 June 2026 date by about twenty months - that stored date appears to track the building's expected completion rather than its topping-out.

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