"...the corridor is like catnip to... developers, with more than a dozen projects planned and countless others being considered."
This Times article lists several of the real estate projects being considered, and looks at the consequences of this heady grit-and-glamour cocktail:
Diagonally opposite the Related project, on the block that stretches between 10th and 11th Avenues and 17th and 18th Streets, Edison Properties will be constructing two mixed commercial and residential buildings, both designed by Robert A. M. Stern Architects, replacing two parking lots. Both buildings have been controversial because of their height, one topping out at 25 to 30 stories, the other at 35 to 40 stories - more than double most of the other new projects.
The community fought the heights of these buildings but lost. Melva Max, the owner of La Luncheonette, across the street from the Edison projects, who has lived in the neighborhood since opening the restaurant 18 years ago, worries about density and how the tall buildings will obscure views of the new 6.7-acre High Line park.
"You won't even see the High Line any more and there won't be any light," Ms. Max said. "What are they going to do, put grow lights in there?"
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