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Originally Posted by yuriandrade
Not sure whether those laws encouraged the construction of narrow towers. I just meant they were not result of lax zoning laws as this period had very strict (and bad) ones.
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Perhaps it was not the intended outcome, but given that regulation it does help to explain in part why there are so many skinny high-rises.
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Originally Posted by sbarn
Skinny highrise projects are fairly typical in Manhattan:
Infill examples:
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Makes sense that there'd be a lot in New York. Going back to my earlier points about those skinny towers in Toronto, New York is filled with properties that fit those three criteria - there are many constrained lots, precedence of existing high-rises/favourable zoning, and an expensive/high-income market that can bear the higher costs associated with building these.
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