If the rest of the world uses the metric definitions of tall buildings, and the US doesn’t, then this may in fact result in foreign countries’ cities having taller buildings overall, if they indeed try to follow those definitions… because in the US, it doesn’t make a bit of difference if a building is 200 or 400 or 700 or 1100 feet. Developers build based on expected return and lowest cost. And to the average person, a building is tall if it has an impact on the skyline or not. A 700 foot building would be absolutely massive in a city such as Washington, DC. Who is to say then that that would not be a “super tall?”
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Not surprising but at least they didn’t pull a Tower Verre again!
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What was the point of reducing the height 67 feet for such a tall building? It’s maddening.
Perhaps, their goal was to just irritate us.
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The height reduction is insignificant visually but enormous statistically. New York can never build a 500m roof height building now. What a shame!!!
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Maybe @rgarri4 can update his render to show us the height change to allow us to better visualize the difference.
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The council is full of far left losers who have no balls.
We’re lucky it was approved at 1,575.
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No one will mess with Affirmation.
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I knew 1642 ft. was too good to be true, but at least it’s not 1486 ft is taller than Central Park Tower
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One Vanderbilt went from 1501’ to 1401’ and it is still a behemoth.
Also being THICC will help this building immensely in terms of presence. I don’t like height cuts but I guess this could have been worse.
We need more 1600’ rooftops to move that plateau up.
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Not surprised at all.
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Considering that all of the crap cities in the US do backflips if they get a 400’ tower, I’m pretty pleased.
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This tower is going to be a serious Shvo Stopper!
(I couldn’t resist. We haven’t had any Shvnews about Shvo lately. I don’t want to sound like a Shvonanist, but…)
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Pretty obvious that the Council wanted to appease the NIMBYs by saying “look, we reduced the size of this hulking behemoth overpowering the beloved Chrysler building!” but privately they knew the NIMBY opposition was stupid so they trimmed as little off of it as possible. The Council wants to have their cake and eat it too.
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Incompetence. A 67 ft height reduction does nothing, at all, besides piss us off. And decreased hours of operation for the terrace? Why? It’s a 2 hour reduction, could someone please explain what that possibly does?
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A height reduction for what? What is so significant about 67 extra feet? Why are they so annoying? Maybe this is a precedent for them to cut off more heights…who knows. City Council and Community Board meetings always use their "NIMBY scare tactics”… losers!
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Some of you are so unnecessarily dramatic. Lets all calm down until we see the real final design for its approved height.
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BK1985 is right. And besides a few feet on a building this large is basically a non-issue.
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