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Old Posted Jan 25, 2012, 12:52 AM
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If only we could have figured out that the sole key to reinvigorating midtown was an expensive light show on a pole sooner!



Statements like this are absurd. Which buildings have spires? ESB? Chrysler? BoFA, American International? Times? Thats 5-6 towers, granted high profile, but hardly enough to define a city the size of New York, which is clearly more dominated by boxy buildings. There are a few antennas too on WTC, Bloomberg, and Conde Nasty in the mix too.
Walt Whitman was the first person to refer to NY as a city of spires in the 19th century in his poem Manahatta. So if you have a problem with that being a nickname of New York bring it up with Walt Whitman.
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