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Reminds me of the Ellicott Square building in Buffalo:

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This is actually good news as the writer points out. If Durst didn't think the tower could get the higher rents in the open market he would certainly come down on the rates for the government...

Unlikely, but hey you never know...the good news is that with Amtrak involved the terminus would be Penn/Moynihan station.

NOVEMBER 8, 2010, 5:20 P.M. ET

Amtrak, NJ Transit discussing Hudson...

Penn to Get Mightier

Stalled Project Set for First Construction

By ELIOT BROWN

The chronically stalled plan to expand Penn Station into the neighboring James A. Farley Post Office is slated...

A great graphic from that article. I live right near the Cinema Cafe and have got to say that there are plenty of other restaurants that do fine with the same headaches. The sign on their door...

Fringe related to viewership numbers. I'm sure any such channel would be highly educated but likely a small audience.

They almost always do. MTV is a classic example. Food Network also. Now we have MTV2 and the Cooking Channel to right all the wrongs.

Discovery has some decent shows, as does NatGeo. I like Build it Bigger, Extreme Engineering, World's Toughest Fixes.

The reason there's no such network is because it's likely considered a...

It does look a lot like 10 Barclay. I don't like this building, although the gold facade has a nice contrast with the other towers in the picture.

Go reread it, I didn't say ^. Basic design limits what can be done, that's the truth. Some people here start calling NY a "sewer" and such in this thread for this building! It's going too far.

They said the same thing about the BofA tower, and now that's the example of how to build modern gracefully. It's ridiculous. My opinion of 15 Penn is that it's along the lines of 1WTC, or 4WTC, or...

What a cop-out. "We're not going to use what we know is a dumb argument like being afraid of tall buildings, so we'll use highly subjective arguments about design to be against tall buildings." So...

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The lot/building footprint doesn't likely equal the exact amount of ventilation they need, there must be overlap. In order to even be talking about apartments above, you need to have access. ...

Buying air rights doesn't mean seizing them. There's air rights for sale in almost every block in Manhattan. The MTA wasted an opportunity with that, which was what I got from the article.

These corners are prime for retail and apartments, to just use them as ventilation and emergency egress is a waste of the space.

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They're apples and apples to me. The point is that once built the new tower didn't ultimately interfere with the old.

Did you think the addition of Trump World Tower destroyed the Chrysler building and the east midtown skyline? No, the Chrysler building is still there in all its glory for everyone to see. Bring...

^ Take a deep breath. The tower is not as sexy as Tower Verre but that doesn't make it 'horrible' and signal the "decline of NY". It's really tall, has a couple interesting elements like the...

^ It's a good thing to have an open window on the second station, no matter how small. 1-2 years is a long time.

NY Times

April 23, 2010
As Tower Rises, So Do Efforts to Buy In
By CHARLES V. BAGLI

The planned skyscraper once known as the Freedom Tower was scorned for years by urban planners, downtown...

Five-year, $700M program will upgrade 150 subway stations with new lighting, sturdier platforms

By Pete Donohue
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Tuesday, February 23rd 2010, 4:00 AM

NYC Transit is...

Crain's

Port and Silverstein meet over WTC impasse

By Theresa Agovino

Published: February 23, 2010 - 12:02 pm

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and Silverstein Properties Inc....

link to image:

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Crain's
February 16, 2010 3:52 PM

Outcry emerges for 41st St. stop on new 7-line

Construction industry and powerful real estate group launch effort, including Web-based petition, to support...

NY1 also has some coverage:

http://www.ny1.com/1-all-boroughs-news-content/top_stories/113750/feds-to-award--83-million-for-new-rail-station