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Uncanny Valley: The Real Reason There Are No Skyscrapers in the Middle of Manhattan (thepoliticker.observer)
Among the reasons New York has the finest skyline in the world—consider that a
statement of fact, not opinion—is not simply the skyscrapers running up the
island of Manhattan but also their unusual arrangement. Like a great mountain
range, the city is arrayed around the twin peaks of Downtown and Midtown.
Perhaps the appeal is Freudian.
It has long been believed that New Yorkers could thank God for their unusual
agglomeration of buildings (or, for those on the Upper West Side not believing
in His good work, eons of geological development). It turns out that Manhattan
has a bedrock unusually suited to the construction of very tall buildings, in
many cases just a few meters below the surface. But that solid land drops away
in the gooey middle of the island, long limiting the heights of buildings in
the city.
Or so the aphocraphists have been passing down for decades, at least since
noted geologist Christopher J. Schuberth released his seminal _The Geology of
New York City and Environs_ in 1968. Therein, he posited his belief in a
correlation between bedrock and big buildings, and like the Empire State
Building, it has stood the test of …
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