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Originally Posted by NYguy
Perhaps something along the lines of this could and should have been built to help with the costs, those air rights have to go for something...
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I would not like to see that. The genius of the Fulton Street Transit Center is that it dedicates the entire building to transit circulation. It is a monument to travel. With residential or office development above it, it becomes like any other generic tower proposed near a subway station - the World Product Center comes to mind.
The absurd real estate prices of New York make this transit center all the more profound for NOT incorporating some sort of tower above.
It would really only have the desired effect with a Citicorp-like base that separates the mass of the tower from the transit component. You'd have to segregate the entrances, too.