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KamaAina

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1. Better still, convert the older buildings to residential use

Reply to markpkessinger (Original post)

Wed Nov 13, 2013, 05:32 PM

Nov 2013

as has been done in the Financial District. They'd be even more desirable than those in FiDi, being walking distance to both midtown offices and established neighborhoods like Murray Hill and Turtle Bay.

de Blasio's boroughs-first plan would seem to imply that new office space should be built near transit hubs like downtown Brooklyn, Atlantic Terminal, Long Island City and Jamaica, rather than in midtown, anyway.

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Good news from NYC - Bloomberg's Midtown East Redevelopment plan defeated by City Council! [View all] markpkessinger Nov 2013 OP

Better still, convert the older buildings to residential use KamaAina Nov 2013 #1

Heh heh...Bloomburg must be shaking his fist at the heavens Skidmore Nov 2013 #2

I usually try to stay in Midtown East when I'm in NYC frazzled Nov 2013 #3