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Originally Posted by Crawford
The setbacks make the restaurants possible, make the hotel rooms more desirable, and add variety and activity to the streetscape. The last thing NYC needs is more short, bulky towers with inefficient space.
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That's not the reason or the alternative. There's nothing outrageous about wanting to see a new high rise have an appealing form that doesn't completely disregard the precedent of an existing historic streetwall. This is a design problem, with a design solution. I don't subscribe to just taking anything without offering criticism because of some notion we should just be happy it's not a parking lot or a two story wendy's. Give me a break with that bologna about better hotel rooms and short inefficient space because they would be required to meet the sidewalk. "[These setbacks] add variety and activity to the streetscape"?? Whan an absolute load of crap.