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A further high rise restaurant in London is Coq d'Argent at No.1 Poultry Place which has sadly become notorious due to a number of city workers jumping to their deaths.
Do we know what stage this scheme is at? The articles on this don't seem to make this clear.
It's part of a much bigger £8.4 Billion Greenwich Peninsula Scheme already underway which will be fully completed by 2032. The new atrium design by Santiago Calatrava will sit above Greenwich Station.
Spanish-born architect Santiago Calatrava has designed a 24 metre-high (79ft) glass arcade with “winter garden” atrium for the complex, which will be topped by three towers, each rising more than 30 storeys above North Greenwich station, which is to be renamed Greenwich Peninsula.
North Greenwich bus station is also going to be rebuilt and Peninsula Place will be connected to the nearby south bank of the Thames by a new footbridge.
Peninsula Place forms part of an £8.4bn revamp of 150 acres of former industrial land and gasworks around the O2, opposite the financial district of Canary Wharf. It is billed as the biggest regeneration project by a single developer in the UK and is expected to be completed by 2032.
London is like NY with smaller buildings, a cultural element less distinct from the rest of the country (working class white people in NYC are different than their counterparts in other parts of America, whereas working class white Londoners aren't really different from people elsewhere in England) and the Jewish influence in NYC is comparable to the Asian Muslim influence in London, which a a good thing.
London is like NY with smaller buildings, a cultural element less distinct from the rest of the country (working class white people in NYC are different than their counterparts in other parts of America, whereas working class white Londoners aren't really different from people elsewhere in England) and the Jewish influence in NYC is comparable to the Asian Muslim influence in London, which a a good thing.
Looks like that won't be the case for long, judging by the amount of construction going on.
Gross Domestic Product
New York: $1.750 Trillion
Greater London & SE England: $829 Billion
GDP per capita
New York - $71,297
Greater London & SE England $50,289
London is poor compared to New York.
Nice try, you're deliberately including SE England as a whole into the London calculation, which brings many other cities into the equation, pushing the number down. The actual GDP per capita in London last year was $162,200
it's interesting that cultural icons of London don't want to live there. Even the Bonds. Sean Connery and Daniel Craig live in NYC. LOL. Brosnan lives in LA. Sting lives in NYC, Bowie died in NYC. Even McCartney just bought a mansion in Manhattan.. I doubt he lives in London.
Some of those people you mentioned live jointly in London, Paul McCartney and Sting definitely do, and Brosnan is Irish, btw.
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Originally Posted by TXNYTXNY
Can't think of any of American icons who decide to live in London. They would never.
A quick Googe search reveals that many American celebrities live in London, permanently or at least live there throughout much of the year. Here's a few:
- Madonna
- Kevin Spacey
- Tim Burton
- Terry Gilliam
- P-Diddy
- Sandra Bullock
- Cameron Diaz
- Gwyneth Paltrow
- Lyndsey Login
- Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie (joint property before the divorce)
Etc.
In reality I only needed to name one in order to disprove your assertion.
Most likely he's already read this, or is at least aware that most global city rankings put London ahead.
When someone posted a full list of them a while ago, he embarked on the following Vaudeville-esque thread creation spree, annoying pretty much everyone in the New York forums.
I wonder why he's returned this time though. Perhaps he was triggered by the prospect of another four years of DeBlasio as mayor.
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