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Agreed, because NJ has no towers? Seriously, I get your argument for making someone against development. However, in Jersey City there is a sky scraper boom including two proposed supertalls. That area will have a larger, taller skyline than Brooklyn or Queens in a few years. Maybe a move to Conn would be more accurate? |
:goodpost: I hope you know I didn't mean Jersey City! ;)
Let's trade. NY will adopt Jersey City and Staten Island can go to NJ - deal? :lmao: |
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Or maybe JACKinBeantown is secretly Meaghan Baron...I've never seen the two together....:hmmm: Anyway, New York is not under assault from supertall buildings. The only thing under assault is our ability to document and photograph the rise of all these buildings. I'm feeling a little thin already, and the real fun hasn't even started yet. It's a problem I'm glad to have. I see four distinct clusters (in Manhattan). There's the Hudson Yards district, Lower Manhattan, the "billionaire's row" towers, and the coming midtown-east (which hasn't initiated yet). Covering anyone of those areas is enough for a day. |
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Although the real challenge is covering ALL of them, and even JC, because JC needs love too. |
:iagree: Jersey City is as integral to New York as you can get!
In fact, the growing skyline across the Hudson is a compliment to Manhattan in itself. :yes: |
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However, there is great concern. We want to develop those towers in an area ripe for that growth. Say, the West side or (dare I say) Downtown. Yep, you heard that right. It's not uncommon to reach for the sky, where in NY, the sky's the limit! :tup: |
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Meanwhile, the towers along billionaires row are beginning their ascent to and above street level, so covering them will be easier from here on out. Remember when 432 was barely a hole in the ground? The Freedom Tower another hole in the ground? These towers will be up before you know it. |
:previous: As we celebrate the growth of the city's tallest, another major celebration is happening on the West Side as well.
While I agree with with chris08876 regarding Jersey City development, I will be celebrating the day when Jersey City officially becomes New York's 6th borough complete with MTA mass transit. :fingerscrossed: |
JC already has the PATH. I want to see a 7 connection to Seacaucus, together with the demolition of the PA on 42nd St.
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http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article...f-central-park
Key City Council members want to curb super-tall buildings south of Central Park Lawmakers call for more regulation and a close look at height limits in a big portion of midtown Manhattan. http://www.crainsnewyork.com/apps/pb...creen&maxw=770 By Joe Anuta July 28, 2015 Quote:
The idiots don't realize that it's the limited supply of available sites and air rights that will naturally curb any such buildings. |
These people need to be publicly lashed in Herald Square for their crimes against architecture and city growth. I doubt they will succeed. Similar to the UES citizens and council members trying to limit tall residentials there.
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^ I don't think they will suceed either, particularly with de Blasio. Everything being built is being built as of right. They want the ability to have a lengthy "study" and review process, enough time to kill a project.
http://www.6sqft.com/wp-content/uplo...h-render-2.jpg http://www.6sqft.com/construction-up...-into-the-sky/ http://www.6sqft.com/wp-content/uplo...uth-render.jpg |
:goodpost: I agree!
Lengthy studies only waste valuable time. As everyone knows, time is money (especially in NYC). |
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:previous: A lengthy study is an excuse to halt development.
It is no different than a transit strike, holding the city hostage. But using 25 stories as a measurement is an excuse to discriminate skyscrapers from being built in NYC. How were those folks elected? Can they be removed from their positions? |
I don't think this whining will gain traction at all. Young people want to live and work where the action is and high density is viewed favorably as an attribute of the ideal modern city. This is 2015, not 1977.
Also do not these whiners ever look up at the sky to see the position of the sun? Hint, hint, developers building SOUTH of Central Park =shadows of buildings don't fall on the park. http://www.schoolsobservatory.org.uk/astro/esm/shadows And like another poster mentioned re: the opposition to the height of the condos built adjacent to Brooklyn Bridge Park. They ended up getting a shorter, FATTER building that blocks MORE of the view of the Brooklyn Bridge than a skinnier taller building would. Ooops! |
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