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Originally Posted by Mr Saturn64
I wish that this was built at a time when it would have stuck out more in the skyline. It's a great building no doubt, but if it had been built even 5 years earlier, it would have had a much more significant impact on the skyline.
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You actually have it backwards. If it came 5 years *later* it would have been another 200 feet taller.
This was the only known case of a building being chopped down by the mayor's administration in the last decade or so. Amanda Burden reduced the originally proposed height of 1200' to ~1000' because she feared this would 'compete with the Empire State Building.' Little did she know there would soon be another 5-6 proposals taller than the ESB, from Hudson Yards to One Vanderbilt to the POS-y 432 Park Ave.
The cruel irony is that the absolute best-designed building of the pack - Tour Verre - was the only one cut down, and the others grew right past it.
There's a real lesson in here about giving bureaucrats too much control over decisions they shouldn't be making