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Impressive Animation of How "Manhattan West" Development Will Be Constructed Over Active Train Tracks

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Imagine you had to build four towers, one of them nearly the tallest in Manhattan, on top of nearly a dozen active train tracks—without disrupting the daily train traffic. That's the challenge faced by Brookfield Properties, the developers of the Manhattan West project a block west of Penn Station, and their team: The architecture firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, mechanical engineering firm Laros, Baum & Bolles and railroad & civil engineering outfit Parsons Transportation.

Here's the wicked proposed solution:

I found the proposal fascinating, even as I asked myself: Who the hell wants to live in the west 30s?

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