Posted Apr 17, 2010, 1:55 PM
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Originally Posted by NYguy
Of course. That community board (the same one up in arms over the Tower Verre) was never going to come out in favor of the tower. But this is the way the approval process works - they get to voice their opinions. It's the City Planning and City Council the gives the approvals. Of course, since both the office tower and the transit improvements are basically what the CPC wants for the site, the attention should not be on whether or not the bonuses are approved, but what Amanda Burden thinks of the design. She opened up that can of worms back during the Tower Verre approval process. And since this tower would be only a couple of blocks east of the Manhattan West tower of the same height - 1,216 ft - the Empire State argument doesn't hold here. I'd like to see what she has to say.
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What is the ESB argument? That there should be no tower in Midtown that reaches the same height than the ESB (or a few meters shorter)?
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