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hrmjustin

(71,265 posts) Fri May 30, 2014, 06:09 PM May 2014

1,200-Foot Tower Planned Near Grand Central Terminal

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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — New York City officials have announced rezoning plans for the area around Grand Central Terminal, including new skyscrapers and transportation improvements.

The plan will include a 1,200-foot tower tower directly west of Grand Central that will have a public waiting room for commuters. The plan also includes transforming a section of Vanderbilt Avenue into a pedestrian mall.
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/05/30/1200-foot-tower-planned-near-grand-central-terminal/

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1,200-Foot Tower Planned Near Grand Central Terminal (Original Post) hrmjustin May 2014 OP

Leave it to NYC to throw it's most beautiful artifacts into the shadows of a nondescript glass box.. Cooley Hurd May 2014 #1

I know. this is just a stupid idea. hrmjustin May 2014 #2

Why do they insist on choking all the personality out of the City? dorkzilla May 2014 #3

money. hrmjustin May 2014 #4

Yep nt dorkzilla May 2014 #5

Sad but unfortunately true. hrmjustin May 2014 #6

Cooley Hurd

(26,877 posts)

1. Leave it to NYC to throw it's most beautiful artifacts into the shadows of a nondescript glass box..

Reply to hrmjustin (Original post)

Fri May 30, 2014, 06:32 PM

May 2014

...or to obliterate them completely, like the GLORIOUS Penn Station...

hrmjustin

(71,265 posts)

2. I know. this is just a stupid idea.

Reply to Cooley Hurd (Reply #1)

Fri May 30, 2014, 06:34 PM

May 2014

dorkzilla

(5,141 posts)

3. Why do they insist on choking all the personality out of the City?

Reply to hrmjustin (Original post)

Fri May 30, 2014, 06:43 PM

May 2014

The skyline has turned so boring that I am hard-pressed to pick it out of a line up of other modern monstrosities. And they're doing the same thing to London.