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Famous NYC skyscraper was almost toppled by winds
- gnabgib 1y agoThe New Yorker article about this was great: The Fifty-nine-Story Crisis (1995) (110 points, 2023, 21 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37684604 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37684604 Slate also had a shorter article The Design Flaw That Almost Wiped Out an NYC Skyscraper (232 points, 2014, 88 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7605993 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7605993