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Neighbourhood opposition to NY skyscraper plan

Along Billionaire's Row, at least eight skyscrapers are underway with apartments selling for megabucks

Thu, Aug 20, 2015 - 5:50 AM

A new generation of super tall, super skinny and super expensive New York skyscrapers are altering the world's most famous skyline amid an extraordinary building boom.

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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...

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