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Originally Posted by Hudson11

They already limited the heights of the buildings in Hochul's review, don't expect several 1200 footers here. They made it a point that they decreased the allowed height and density of the buildings versus Cuomo's vision.

Wasn't it just the density that was limited in the last review? Like the square footage was cut but theoretically a tall tower could still be built.

I'm looking at NYguy's quote from a couple pages ago

The reason they always give heights in these situations (Cuomo originally didn't) is so it can help people "visualize" what could be built. But I think that's the wrong approach, because even here on a skyscraper forum where we know better, it can confuse some. Reducing the density in theory reduces the height. But if there are no height limits outright, it doesn't really mean anything. You would have to do something along the lines of what they did at the WTC.

The best they could do is limit the FAR, which is the old fashioned way of limiting how high a building can rise on a given site. So, as you can see here, site 2A, which was to be the largest tower, took the biggest hit (from 36 to 26!). Likewise, the massing was reversed again on site 2 with the larger tower being on 7th Avenue. They want the towers to scale down in height, which doesn't make any sense when you consider there's a whole Hudson Yards to the west. What also doesn't make sense is trying to reduce the density around Penn Station in the first place. But politicians try to appease people, people who have no appetite to be appeased. They won't care about this "height cut". They want the whole thing scrapped.

And it looks like no change at all on sites 4, 7, and 8.