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Looks so much better without the geegaw light effects.
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Agreed. The razzle dazzle light show makes it look cheap, like it’s renting out rooms by the hour
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They should reserve it for occasions but Chase just wants to show off their building.
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In a way that’s what they do.
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big pimpin’
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nice, the all seeing eye,
they are not even hiding 
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The NY Times wrote a piece on 270 Park Ave. It isn’t criticizing it but goes into detail about its lighting scheme.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/realestate/270-park-avenue-jp-morgan-building.html
We also now know why the British flag was on display.
For a party in November honoring King Charles III (who did not attend), the building displayed the Union Jack.
And there is a name for the default glittery light scheme.
Most of the time, the lights show “Celestial Passage,” a display of sparkling geometric patterns that resembles a screen saver seen through a glass of champagne.
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Good grief, those “sparkling” animations are the default? What a colossal display of bad taste. I mean, “a screen saver seen through a glass of champagne” strikes me as perilously close to PR-speak for “lipstick on a pig.” I’d laugh if this thing weren’t so prominent. Sigh.
And “mountainous lump” — a good phrase from the Guardian. Captures well the way the building eschews the soaring elegance and finely wrought detail of NYC classics in favor of simple, brute mass.
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Looks cool idc.
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Count me in as another that like the lighting scheme as is. But also like the plain warm white one too.
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I like the modern “sparkling” lighting schemes. I’ve been in Ubers on my way from JFK and Newark at night and the lighting looks fantastic.
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I had to pick people up from EWR, and on the way home, I saw both 270 and 1&2 Manhattan West with their animated lights. They’re a delight and look great. Even on occasion the ESB has glittery lights.
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What a load of nonsense. Just like the article it reeks of pretentiousness from nothing and trying to fill a word count
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Oh yes, I fully expected my comment to ruffle a few feathers. (I even had a good idea to whom those feathers might belong.) That, of course, wasn’t the intention behind my post – after all, I was simply trying to express an opinion, however nonsensical – but I did expect it.
As for pretentious? Guilty as charged, I’m afraid!
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ESB lights glitter every top of the hour 
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