How/why would our cities turn into vertical strip malls? That wouldn’t make any sense from a demand perspective, which is what drives these types of development.
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Calling out Phoenix, DFW, and Charlotte as ugliest cities is ill-informed at best. Like all major metropolitan areas they have their good sides and bad sides. Just like NYC…
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This is a good point. One of the many factors creating our housing shortage is “bureaucratic impediments”. The process of land acquisition, permits, zoning, community approvals, etc, all take years for a new property to go from concept-to-completion.
Imagine adding a vague, and ambiguous legal requirement to meet some established standard of ‘BEAUTY’.
My gosh - not a good a policy IMHO… 
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Boo hoo, these people need to cope lol. They should move to Nebraska if they think their views will forever be unobstructed in a city filled with development.
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Wow, thats actually funny. What do they expect to get out of this? Plus, is this thin pencil really that horrible compared to the blockage Panam made in 1962?
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Since the day it was proposed, this was destined to become the most hated building in nyc haha
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What I find funny is all these people are going to complain about this building but seem to not grasp that their complaining isn’t going to make the building go away. It’s well underway with construction and isn’t going to be torn down just because people are mad that a specific viewing angle of the ESB is blocked.
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There is a certain perverse humor about complaining about complaining. I chuckled.y
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It is the ‘unintended consequences’ that I find most amusing. This building may not have gotten much notice, and remained just another NYC skinny tower of no particular significance. However, now there are many published articles on this building (even coming out of the UK) and 262 5th Avenue is achieving world wide notoriety.
The buzz this building is now getting will certainly increase the sale value in what is currently very overcrowded NYC luxury Condo market. It is called the Streisand Effect.
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This may renew the ban on sliver buildings.
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Great updates and perspectives.
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