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Nouvel Tower Gets the Nod Of City’s Landmarks Panel

Jean Nouvel’s masterpiece was recently resurrected with the approval of air right transfers according to The Sun

The landmarks commissioners yesterday unanimously approved the transfer of development rights from two landmarks on Fifth Avenue, the University Club and St. Thomas Church, to a site near Sixth Avenue formerly owned by MoMA, more than 500 feet to the west, where the new tower is scheduled to rise.

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