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Name: Michael
Location: New York, NY
Tell us about yourself: Voracious blog reader since the days of Elizabeth Spiers at Gawker.

Commented on Luxury Condos Near Projects Hit Gravesend
Some of the hottest buildings in New York City are built cheek by jowl with the projects. Look at at 8th and 9th Aves all the way from the teens into the 30's. It's starchitecture wrapped around a core of...
Commented on Ratner And Gehry's Beekman Tower Topped Off
Are their any renderings online for that? I didn't see it on his website or on Curbed....
Commented on Baby-Faced Bronx Shooting Suspect's Gang Was Also His Family
If this isn't a case of wasted promise, I don't know what is....
Commented on Ratner And Gehry's Beekman Tower Topped Off
It's lower Manhattan. The whole area has practically been one big experiment for new forms of building tall over the past 100 years. Wasn't The World Building - one of the world's very first sky scrapers - built within spitting...
Commented on Ratner And Gehry's Beekman Tower Topped Off
It's such a great looking building. My only question is why not taller? That bad boy could seriously soar above the skyline....

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