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Originally Posted by DZH22
The way you framed your comment is by calling them both "skinny" towers, as if 5:1 and 12:1 were the same. They're not even close to the same. So, "both statements can be true" if you were truthful yourself, by recognizing that 1930's "skinny" and 2020's "skinny" are not apples-to-apples and shouldn't be lumped into the same category.
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IMO you're cherrypicking. No one thinks of 40 Wall or 70 Pine as unusually skinny towers. And it's the skyline element, not the base, that matters. Singer Tower was extremely skinny. Woolworth, 20 Exchange and One Wall are skinny.
Lower Manhattan, pre-Chase Manhattan Plaza, was dominated by skinny spires. From an aesthetic perspective, I don't understand how someone can lament the rise of skinny spires in Midtown while praising their presence downtown.