Posted Jan 16, 2015, 2:12 PM
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Posted this article in the Nordstrom thread. It's a stupid article with a misleading headline, but worth a read.
http://www.theguardian.com/cities/20...g-of-the-light
Supersizing Manhattan: New Yorkers rage against the dying of the light
‘Supertall’ buildings are sprouting like beanstalks in central New York, costing its citizens precious sunshine and air, and turning the city’s skyline into a jumble
Manhattan’s three tallest buildings in a line: 432 Park Avenue, the Empire State Building, and One World Trade Center.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/16/ny...site.html?_r=0
Guardrail Falls 81 Stories at Park Avenue Tower Work Site
By BENJAMIN MUELLER
JAN. 15, 2015
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Construction work was briefly halted at 432 Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan this week after a section of guardrail fell from a hoist near the top of the building, which is arguably the tallest in New York City.
On Thursday evening, a day after the stop-work order was imposed, construction was allowed to restart after the problem with the hoist was resolved, a spokesman for the city’s Department of Buildings said.
The section, about eight feet long, hurtled to the sidewalk on Wednesday after it became dislodged from the hoist at the 81st floor of the 96-story condominium, according to Buildings Department records. It landed in front of the main entrance of an occupied building across 56th Street, the department said. Nobody was injured.
The Buildings Department issued a stop-work order on the building, citing a hoist malfunction.
The department and the hoist installation company reinspected the site on Thursday evening and lifted the stop-work order, the Buildings Department said. The building’s ownership expected construction workers to return to the job by Friday morning.
At 1,396 feet, the 104-unit condominium tower, between 56th and 57th Streets, is slightly taller than 1 World Trade Center, though that building grows to 1,776 feet with its spire. The 93-foot-by-93-foot concrete building is also nearly 150 feet taller than the Empire State Building. It is scheduled to open this year.
The tower, where units cost as much as $95 million, quickly became a symbol of excess in the city’s outsize real estate market, and a test for souvenir T-shirt makers and postcard photographers who must contend with Manhattan’s changing skyline.
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If they're counting on this tower to "pass" that test, then they're going to fail, because there is so much more to come.
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