I don't get the concern about the height. We're not talking about some 600-foot luxury condo building in the north bronx, we're talking about what is largely a tourist attraction in Lower Manhattan literally on the edge of the borough. It's not as if they are bulldozing an entire historic neighborhood or something.
And, the critiques are all over the place.
People are giving hints that the administration would give this project better treatment if it included affordable housing, but that's in direct constrast to the community, who apparently doesn't want affordable housing. Their concern seems to be the height, which unlike the affordable housing critique, seems like a completely illegitimate concern given the location practically in the river.
You can't win for losing, I guess.
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Where the trees are the right height
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