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Originally Posted by JSsocal
Don't understand why there's no love for the bookstore.. its not just that its a handsome building with an intact historic interior, its that its an amenity that gives normal people a reason to go to the 57th street corridor.
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Because the bookstore already said it will relocate. It's lease is up and can't afford the rent anyways, so will relocate regardless.
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Originally Posted by JSsocal
I feel the sentiment on this forum tends towards the proliferation of skyscrapers no matter the cost or impact, but here's a real example of where buildings that clearly advance the New York narrative are in threat of demolition.
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Because 95% of Manhattan is filled with prewar structures, so most people aren't going to cry too much if the percent goes down to 92% or something, and we get a bunch of starchitect-designed skinny supertalls in return.
Manhattan will still be dominated overwhelmingly by prewars, and NYC is given a chance to grow, and have some architectural variety, and not become a New World version of Venice. If you say "don't demolish prewars in Manhattan" then you mean "don't build anything in Manhattan", so there has to be some mechanism to allow some development on these sites.
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Originally Posted by JSsocal
And to clarify the building behind these 4 structures in threat of demolition is not the ugly hadassah building, but another (more modest) prewar building. I don't see how this will benefit the neighborhood.
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Tax revenue, new business, architectural variety and more mixed uses. And the Hadassah building is supposedly in play (I don't know if air rights or a separate project by same developer.).
Also, these skinny new towers permanently preserve many prewars, because they buy the air rights from the prewars, and take tiny lots, as opposed to the bulkier buildings of past generations, which destroyed far more older buildings.