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This month in RE history: City Club of NY reprints anti-skyscraper article

Chanin Building
Chanin Building

From the December issue: The City Club of New York reprinted 87 years ago this month a Vanity Fair article that blasted skyscrapers as “monsters” that would lead to the “decline and ultimate death of New York City.” Deems Taylor, a composer and music critic, compared skyscrapers to a plague on the level of “ancient city scourges” like “cholera, yellow fever, tuberculosis and slums.”

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He was especially concerned about sidewalk congestion and traffic jams, which he blamed on the ever-increasing density caused by new skyscrapers like the 625-foot-tall Chanin Building. [more]