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Originally Posted by antinimby
why replace this great looking Pre-war building with more than likely another glass box, which we have way too much of already and which is pretty much what is being built everywhere nowadays?
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Why replace a "great" looking building? My guess is because buildings aren't just there to be
seen. It's the year 2013, not 1913. But beyond the fact that I don't buy into the "glass boxes everywhere" argument (it's actually these older buildings that are everywhere in Manhattan), we don't even know what would be built in it's place. I do know that according to city plans, for someone to use all of the available air rights here, they would have to use high quality architecture - the design would have to be approved.