1. a thin little four-sided box going straight up eighty stories, cantilevering over Tiffany's
2. it was absolutely hideous.
3. If you want Bonwit to return to Fifth Avenue, you're going to have to give me my zoning.
4.I don't think politics or leverage made a critical difference one way or the other.
I'm absolutely convinced that it was the architecture itself that won us our approval.
5. I took a calculated risk by inviting Huxtable to look at our model and renderings before the City Planning Commission voted on our zoning.
6. She was hostile to Skyscrapers in general.
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she almost always preferred old and classical to new and glitzy.
8. That headline probably did more for my zoning than any single thing I ever said or did.
9. In October, the planning commission unanimously([ju(ː)ˈnænɪməsli] ) approved our zoning.
10. In the end, we negotiated an FAR of 21, barely less than the 21.6 maximum.
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I settled for just two fewer floors than I'd originally sought.
12 That gave me the equivalent of a sixty-eight-story building, including the huge double-cellinged six-level atrium. which made Trump Tower the tallest residential buildng in the city.
13. the city amended its zoning laws to prevent others from doing the same thing in the future.
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