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Reply #13: It's really expensive to build skyscrapers in this area. No bedrock. [View All]

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aquart

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Thu Aug-06-09 06:56 PM
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13. It's really expensive to build skyscrapers in this area. No bedrock.

My geology professor was quite firm about that. Bedrock is what anchors the rest of Manhattan. Also, there's protective zoning in the West Village. They once tore down a building on West 9th and made it into a parking garage for a bunch of new apartments. That caused a mighty uproar and changed the rules. Didn't save the West 9th building, though. I remember it because my Dad lived in that building and he wound up on FDR Drive.

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