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Oh @Whathewhy :joy:

“1,000 foot” They didn’t do enough research

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This is what you get when Instagram replaces actual journalism

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Journalism still gets stuff wrong (IE yimby articles).

Also, “stepped modern tower with a construction crane”, crane has been gone for months now, and tower isn’t stepped.

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Reading the entire kerfuffle above I came away with my favorite comment. :star_struck:

I think that remark could be used as the lexical working definition of ‘FASCISM’. :rofl:

That being said; I honesty question the sincerety of the comment; it is that absurd. My ‘trolling’ alert has been activited. :wolf:

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Why stop at fascism? Nazism, even!

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I would characterize yimby as a very good (usually) crowd sourced informational site. Journalism, OTOH entails having fact checkers and editors performing research to be as certain of the facts as possible, not moderators/contributers with unknown sympathies and questionable levels of experience. I get it though, it’s profession that nobody has much regard for.

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Yes, it was. And I should think an apology is order.

At any rate, hopefully a lesson to be a little less cocksure and quick to denigrate board members in the future.

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Blah, just blah. The like 60 feet of crooked crimpled foil at the base is just so jarring… It literally looks like a photoshop and someone took the stamp/clone tool.

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Are there additional fittings going in around the portal windows on the east side? Because that abrupt transition to the facade is :smiling_face_with_tear::smiling_face_with_tear::smiling_face_with_tear:

Also yeah, the entrance is very odd. Just a lot of strange design decisions made with this building.

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Yeah I’m not sure, I mentioned something similar to that affect about the unfinished state around the porthole windows previously. SURELY they HAVE to be finished more properly and not all jagged.

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How I feel about the majority of this giant safety deposit box in the sky :grimacing: The first photo with the windows seemingly added randomly is pretty jarring in itself! This must be the project manager on approving most of these design choices:

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“One of the most talk-about condo tower in Manhattan” … this type of popularity/notoriety may become a new form of “branding” that will likely be very effective in terms of marketing the property.

I remain a big fan: the design, the height, the skinny factor, the controversial placement, that metallic facade, etc - one truly exciting project. IMHO :thinking:

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Plus there is no stampede to buy there.

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Taken at the Summit

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