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>>18822958
they fucked up the skyline, from a distance it looks fine but half of its tallest buildings were built in the last five years and are just tall, skinny residential skyscrapers that are only notable because of their height. 432 park avenue is a dull stack of windowed boxes. 115 west 57th street and central park tower are no better. the original world trade center buildings were dull but they still fit into the skyline with the other wide, traditional buildings. look at the 10 tallest skyscrapers and every single one is modernist crap outside of the empire state building and one world trade center:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_New_York_City

then there's the fact they're mostly money laundering fronts and tax havens for chinese state oligarchs, saudi princelings, and the global financial ultra-rich. if you take out the empire state building and chrysler building chicago has the best skyline in the US hands down.

>>18822992
kek