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To answer the OP: it's because New York has grown up. We don't have to participate in races to see who's got the tallest skyscraper. Give some of those other places a few decades; they'll learn what we already know, and then they'll drop out of the race, too.
That is a horrible excuse for why NYC is not the boom town it was 50 or 100 years ago. Welfare, crime, and the idea of taking from the "have's" and giving it to the lazy, stupid, or simply entrusting it with a big fat bureaucracy is what ended New York's boom times.
Also, your local real estate magnate Larry Silverstein likes to blow up his own buildings and collect insurance on them. Actually, he tried to claim double on his insurance because there were, as he put it, "two separate incidents". NYC is the capital of greed. Sorry.
That is a horrible excuse for why NYC is not the boom town it was 50 or 100 years ago. Welfare, crime, and the idea of taking from the "have's" and giving it to the lazy, stupid, or simply entrusting it with a big fat bureaucracy is what ended New York's boom times.
Also, your local real estate magnate Larry Silverstein likes to blow up his own buildings and collect insurance on them. Actually, he tried to claim double on his insurance because there were, as he put it, "two separate incidents". NYC is the capital of greed. Sorry.
I would bet you weren't here 50 years ago. I was. If anything, NYC is MORE vibrant and bustling now than it was then.
And your inference that Silverstein caused 9/11 is insulting and offensive.
That is a horrible excuse for why NYC is not the boom town it was 50 or 100 years ago. Welfare, crime, and the idea of taking from the "have's" and giving it to the lazy, stupid, or simply entrusting it with a big fat bureaucracy is what ended New York's boom times.
Also, your local real estate magnate Larry Silverstein likes to blow up his own buildings and collect insurance on them. Actually, he tried to claim double on his insurance because there were, as he put it, "two separate incidents". NYC is the capital of greed. Sorry.
You obviously dont know anything. We were just in a building boom for the last two years. Wait and maybe since 1990.
I would bet you weren't here 50 years ago. I was. If anything, NYC is MORE vibrant and bustling now than it was then.
And your inference that Silverstein caused 9/11 is insulting and offensive.
I am no conspiracy theorist. I am a very conservative person, but I know how rampant greed is on certain streets in New York City, like Wall Street, and it wouldn't be outside one's imiagination (even my conservative one) that a greed magnate like Silverstein could let it consume him and his organization.
Bottom line, the whole situation stinks, and it wouldn't surprise me with the whole 9/11 conspiracy and the shananigans that went on afterward that supertall buildings would be scared to choose NYC for solid ground.
...Assuming, of course, that there actually was a conspiracy. That has not been proven by anyone. Conspiracy theorists say otherwise, but then they're conspiracy theorists, so what do you expect?
That is a horrible excuse for why NYC is not the boom town it was 50 or 100 years ago. Welfare, crime, and the idea of taking from the "have's" and giving it to the lazy, stupid, or simply entrusting it with a big fat bureaucracy is what ended New York's boom times.
Also, your local real estate magnate Larry Silverstein likes to blow up his own buildings and collect insurance on them. Actually, he tried to claim double on his insurance because there were, as he put it, "two separate incidents". NYC is the capital of greed. Sorry.
Have you ever been to NY ?
It sounds from your comment that you have no idea what kind of a boom NY has been undergoing for the last 20 years.NY was positively sleepy 50 years ago compared to the last 10.
It seems like a lot of people from out in the provinces have a lot to say about NY or life in NY in these threads and what they say often indicates a total ignorance of facts.It's like they have never been here but they try to pretend that they have some insight.
Isn't NYC moving focusing on quality of life, green and efficient stuff leaps and bounds over other cities. There is way more important things than whos building is the tallest... Paris and London did not become the cities they are because of tall buildings...
NYC is still global leader in finance, economics, art, entertainment, culture, etc.
who cares about skyscrapers??? focusing on getting the economy together and bringing people back to work should be a higher priority don't you think
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You obviously dont know anything. We were just in a building boom for the last two years. Wait and maybe since 1990.
