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Originally Posted by Visionist
I feel like I've been spat in the face.
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LOL
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Originally Posted by JMKeynes
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Wow, the voice of reason, lol.
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Originally Posted by Sky88
Yes, but the indication of the height of 1,646 ft had come from the builder and then reported in the press. If this indication was not correct, then why not expect the project to be well defined in its numbers, instead of going up and down with the heights? Too bad for this downsizing.
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Originally Posted by Zapatan
The floor heights would have to tweaked a lot to get from 1,486 back to ~1650, though I suppose with 85 of them each one only needs a foot or two extra, I hope you're right.
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Originally Posted by gramsjdg
I had a feeling 1650' was too good to be true. Just a lot of bluster, as usual.
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Let me just say, don't let it ever be said on this forum again that height doesn't matter. From pretty much the majority of these comments, it's clear that it VERY MUCH does.
I mentioned earlier that they hadn't decided on floor heights, the graphic where the height figure was taken from shows a uniform slab height of 14 ft for the regular 50 office floors above the base. That would make for some low ceiling heights, and we know that's not what gets built in New York, and I would be
shocked to see such a thing, especially in a tower of this magnitude. No floors have been cut from the tower. The missing 160 ft could very easily be made up with change in slab heights. Now, they
could still cut floors, and the tower
could be reduced further. We'll know when that happens.
That particular graphic was from a presentation last month for the Public Design Commission, which evaluates the public space (as opposed to Landmarks evaluating the context with Grand Central Terminal). I don't even think the height came up, but most, like me are pleased with it.
The presentation
https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/designcommission/downloads/pdf/03-22-2021-EDC-175-park.pdf
And the meeting
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