More Standard Porn: The High Line's Perpetual Lap Dance

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just curious - does this design create any security vulnerabilities?

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theres no way thatd stand up in even a minor earthquake, major hurricane! truck explosion, fire underneath! lol Kerplunkt!

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#1 - Just as well as any other building i would imagine.

That truss system that the hotel is sitting on acts like a bridge, and it sits on those pillars, again, like a bridge.

There is no reason to think its unsafe. Any truck explosion, fire, or other such attack would be just as effective against a "normal" building, in the exact same ways.

But then again, this is curbed, so why not just over-react after looking at a picture??? It sure is more fun that way.

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Separated at birth? No.
Is it just you? Yes.

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Thats rather hideous.

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I hear Balazs is very concerned what you pee-ons think.

I can hear him now crying from his mansion.

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The Sheraton/Newton in Boston straddles the entire Massachusetts Turnpike in this manner. And you often see such construction oversees. It is not unsafe.

http://images.travelnow.com/hotels/BOS_NEWT-exter-1.jpg

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Speaking of Boston buildings, the Federal Reserve building is also on stilts. But you can't access the "crotch" of the building as easily as the Marriott or this POS hotel.

http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=federalreservebankbuilding-boston-ma-usa

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Oops, I meant the Sheraton.

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Like, Oh my God! The Standard on 10th Ave.! I'm a model and I stay at the Standard LA like a million times a year! I hope there'll be as cool a pool at this one as the one in LA! We can never have too may hotels or gastropubs in NY! I like love it here! It's like SO LA! Except for the smell.

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Like, Oh my God! The Standard on 10th Ave.! I'm a model and I stay at the Standard LA like a million times a year! I hope there'll be as cool a pool at this one as the one in LA! We can never have too may hotels or gastropubs in NY! I like love it here! It's like SO LA! Except for the smell.

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Cripes, buildings three times the height of this one have been sitting on old pillars above the track complex leading in to Grand Central for many, many years. Get over it.

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I just can not understand the high line. We have serious infrasturcture issues - especially with con ed and with the city's sewers.

Why why why is the city spending money on this? It's so wierd.

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Whadaya mean, "those who will be allowed" to walk on the High Line? You realize it's a public park, right?

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#13. go put your head in a bag.
really! ...

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#13 -- I can't really understand Times Square, Murray Hill, South Street Seaport, The Bronx, or 95% of the rest of the crap in New York, but I'm still happy it's here. At least the Highline will be nice and green.

Also, the City isn't paying for it. That's what all of the fund raisers are for.

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#14: yeah, we'll see how "public" it is after it's completed.

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this will look like a hojo's in 1967, but not as fun, when all is said and done. rusting steel will never be 'nice and green' - leprechauns, maybe, but not the highline.

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It looks like Lance Bass on all fours ready for action

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looks like easy pickins for terrorists--oops! don't give al qaeda any ideas...

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Honestly, NY is getting so queered up, even the queers are rolling their eyes. The city is the New Vegas. Shiny, new, vapid, tasteless, just like the new generation of residents.

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I remember when Balazs first purchased the Nebraska Beef Building, and sat on it, as he believed he would be able to tear down part of the High Line to build a bigger hotel.

This is where the straddle came from.

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#21, you said it: New Vegas! NYC exists no longer. years ago, Broadway shows turned into Vegas floor shows, nothing else.