Gothamist.com reports on the latest controversies surrounding the super tall buildings that are currently planned or under construction along Central Park South. Today's heat wave conditions might have you seeking shade, but gather ye UV rays while ye may because soon our city will be a shadowy thicket of sad beneath a forest of super-tall luxury condos.
Real estate blog Cube Cities has created a digital time-lapse revealing how "Billionaire's Row" will make a sundial out of the park every day. The exact length and duration of the shadows will vary as the sun's angle over Manhattan gradually changes with the seasons, but in the 46-second clip we're shown that a "typical fall day" in September will look awfully dark.
"Individually, the towers may not have a significant effect; however their collective impact has not been considered," Municipal Arts Society argued in a 2013 report. Concluding that there is no one solution to the Accidental Skyline (not even landmarking the skyline itself), MAS has urged that the public to speak up when "open spaces are affected by new development."
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