Neighbourhood opposition to NY skyscraper plan
Along Billionaire's Row, at least eight skyscrapers are underway with apartments selling for megabucks
New York
HERNDON Werth met with several lawyers last week in a restaurant around the corner from his home of more than 40 years on a sleepy stretch of 58th Street, near luxurious Sutton Place on the East Side of Manhattan. They offered to give him an apartment rent-free for life, moving expenses and, by one account, US$1 million, if only he would vacate his rent-regulated studio on the top floor of a six-storey brownstone.
A developer has already bought three …
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