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From: Architexturez-IN <admin-in@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:49:29 +0530
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By and large, in the 1970’s and beyond, the flow of federal money for
such projects eventually slowed, Moses was forced from power, and the
city and state moved away from major publicly backed residential and
commercial developments, with the slow build-out of Battery Park City
being one of the few large-scale projects on the books.
But today, a combination of all-time-high property values and new
residents pouring into the five boroughs, along with an ambitious
mayoral development agenda, has brought back the mega-project, as the
city and state enlist private developers to replace New York’s remaining
open and underutilized spaces with new buildings and towers.
In this respect, with a single private landlord building the largest
single development of the era, the West Side yards and Rockefeller
Center are quite similar.
cont'd....
http://www.observer.com/2008/west-side-rail-yards-and-ghost-robert-moses?page=0%2C0