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Old Posted Aug 13, 2012, 7:52 PM
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Originally Posted by hunser View Post
A 2000 footer needs to be surrounded by huge towers to look good. Midtown and Lower Manhattan are ideal places for that. Also, don't forget that after all those 400m+ and 300m+ projects are finished in a couple of years (One57, 1 and 4WTC are going to be completed soon), NY will have a taller skyline than Chicago (if you go by 200m+ skyscrapers, NY dwarfs every city in the world except maybe for Hong Kong).
With the completed new WTC alone, NYC will have a taller skyline than Chicago unless it sees a boom in the future. In fact, I think when the former WTC existed, NYC had the world's tallest skyline.
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