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It’s also worth noting that the New York Times headquarters is the 8th tallest building in Manhattan: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Buildi

It’s also worth noting that the New York Times headquarters is the 8th tallest building in Manhattan: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Building https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Building Why is filling a building with journalists and advertising industry people morally superior to filling it with equipment? I actually quite like the way the nyt building looks but it’s definitely in the vein of excessive luxury. It didn’t need to be that nice, but hey it’s their money to spend! Too bad they don’t grant others the same courtesy.

fwip 8y ago
The argument is that the "equipment" is unnecessary, or at least made to take up more room than it should. I would say a workplace for anyone is likely more important than space that is deliberately wasted.
- malvosenior 8y ago
  The argument is that people should be free to spend their money as they please. And if someone is going to criticize the height of a building, literally doing it from one of the tallest buildings in the city is ridiculous.
jazzyjackson 8y ago
Because thousands of people moving in and out of a building overflows into a robust neighborhood - food being sold on the streets, restraunts and theaters hosting new experiences every day... The neighborhoods being built up into luxury towers no one lives provides no business to the would-be shops and galleries nearby, leaving them as empty as the streets around the High Line... "Last March, beloved leather bar Rawhide at 212 Eighth Ave. closed after rent rose from $15,000 to $27,000 a month. Close to a year later, it remains vacant.", from 2014, https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20140204/chelsea/vacant-storefronts-line-eighth-ave-as-high-rents-force-out-businesses/ https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20140204/chelsea/vacant-sto... There's other articles along the same lines if you google 'empty storefronts high line nyc'
- malvosenior 8y ago
  Both the buildings we're talking about are in midtown. It's already at peak density of humans. Less would actually be better.

fwip 8y ago

The argument is that the "equipment" is unnecessary, or at least made to take up more room than it should. I would say a workplace for anyone is likely more important than space that is deliberately wasted.

malvosenior 8y ago
The argument is that people should be free to spend their money as they please. And if someone is going to criticize the height of a building, literally doing it from one of the tallest buildings in the city is ridiculous.

jazzyjackson 8y ago

Because thousands of people moving in and out of a building overflows into a robust neighborhood - food being sold on the streets, restraunts and theaters hosting new experiences every day... The neighborhoods being built up into luxury towers no one lives provides no business to the would-be shops and galleries nearby, leaving them as empty as the streets around the High Line... "Last March, beloved leather bar Rawhide at 212 Eighth Ave. closed after rent rose from $15,000 to $27,000 a month. Close to a year later, it remains vacant.", from 2014, https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20140204/chelsea/vacant-storefronts-line-eighth-ave-as-high-rents-force-out-businesses/ https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20140204/chelsea/vacant-sto... There's other articles along the same lines if you google 'empty storefronts high line nyc'

malvosenior 8y ago
Both the buildings we're talking about are in midtown. It's already at peak density of humans. Less would actually be better.