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| DATE | 2015-08-05 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] All that is wrong with NYC now
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On 08/05/2015 02:21 AM, Ruben Safir wrote:
> On 08/05/2015 02:19 AM, Ruben Safir wrote:
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/432_Park_Avenue
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>> What is WRONG with NYC now...
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>> designed by Rafael Viñoly
>> around what is
>> described as "the purest geometric form: the square" and inspired by a
>> trash can,^[14]
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>> Great maybe Oscar the Grouch will move it...
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>> ummmm Rafie, the purest geometric shape is the SPHERE.... whatever.
>>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One57
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> On the evening of March 15, 2014, a fire broke out in the loading dock
> of One57, spreading into the courtyard behind the building and then onto
> the adjacent property at 152 West 58th Street, which had to be
> evacuated.^[33]
> Neither Extell nor Lend Lease has ever offered any explanation of the
> fire, and the NYC Dept. of Buildings refused to issue even a partial
> Stop Work order following the fire. The cause of the fire remains a
> mystery.^[34]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CitySpire_Center
this building is actually not so ugly but....
Soon after the building's completion, residents of nearby buildings
complained of hearing a loud whistling noise which, it later turned out,
came from the wind blowing through the decorative dome at the building's
top. The city threatened daily fines for the noise, which lasted for
more than a year. Developers silenced the whistle by removing every
other louver in the cooling tower, thereby widening the narrow channels
through which the wind whistled.^[2]
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