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Old Posted Oct 19, 2013, 1:36 AM
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Originally Posted by antinimby View Post
I find it hard to believe (well this is skyscraperpage so maybe I shouldn't be so surprised) that people here are worried about the loss of a freaking McDonald's drive thru (really?) and not a single mention of the loss of Coach's marvelous building.

Incredible.
I miss that McDs already and I've never eaten at it & can't recall the last McDs I've eaten at.

I mourn the century old multi-story horse stables on 36th? 37th? (between 11th and the Amtrak cut) that will probably be gone in a few years also.

But all the construction and infrastructure are neat and help to drive the local economy.

The world moves on.



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Originally Posted by easy as pie View Post
with the crazy good deal that they scored with the yards, the timeframe for the platform over the yards, the carrying costs they're likely looking at for this site (not including the coach building, which will be a money maker for years with all the towers going up around it), and the competition in the area (at least 2 non-related office towers along hudson + the 3 manhattan west towers), it makes a lot of sense to push this site before the north tower on the yards site. which is something i'd quite like, since the volume of office space built out in the far west side could well delay the demolition of some midtown east beauties by possibly a decade or more, along with potentially getting the 7 looped down to penn station.
The 7 extension's tail tracks run down 11th into the 20s. I'd say building a station down along the tail tracks or further south would be more useful by bring service to a rapidly developed/developing area.

Why looping to Penn?

Last edited by NYguy; Oct 19, 2013 at 10:25 PM.
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