NY skyline set to change with rise of pencil towers
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New York
IT'S not a tourist attraction yet, but when hard-hatted construction workers journey down from the summit of 432 Park Avenue at 57th Street they proudly rattle off sky-high statistics - 1,396 feet (425.5 metres) and 96 stories tall - that will make the luxury condominium tower in midtown the tallest habitable building in the city.
It's already an eye-popping distraction for miles out into the suburbs and surrounding countryside as it soars up, way up, from Manhattan's signature skyline.
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