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avantgardengnome t1_jdemi3s wrote
Reply to comment by More_Garlic_ in Historic Flatiron Building sells for $190 million at auction by Orener
Summer or fall 2019.
avantgardengnome t1_j9ojkbi wrote
Reply to comment by Zkenny13 in Blizzard warning is first for Southern California mountains since 1989: National Weather Service by Anthony12125
Just found out in another thread that today’s high is 70 in Philadelphia and 47 in NYC (probably 50 miles between them longitudinally, if that).
avantgardengnome t1_j9oifb7 wrote
Reply to comment by That_Girl_Cray in Blizzard warning is first for Southern California mountains since 1989: National Weather Service by Anthony12125
That can’t be right; they’re calling for a high of 47 in NYC.
Ninja edit: my weather app says 70 in Philly too! That’s beyond bizarre.
avantgardengnome t1_jdncl7c wrote
Reply to comment by astoriaboundagain in 16 stories beneath midtown Manhattan, NYC by PonyEnglish
Battery Park City came from the WTC excavation but The Battery itself was also landfill that came from street widening and stuff like that going back to the mid 1800s. The original western edge of lower Manhattan was essentially Greenwich Street all the way up to about 15th St in the Meatpacking District. (So the WTC site was indeed once underwater, but idk if that land came from Grand Central or not).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_Manhattan_expansion