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Daniel Trubman

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As seen in: Naked Philly, Washington Post Opinions, Substack, The Philadelphia Inquirer, WHYY-TV (Philadelphia, PA), Billy Penn, Chestnut Hill Local
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I write about what's getting built in Philadelphia, what's not getting built in Philadelphia, and why.

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Reading The Zoning Code on a Turtle Bay Corner

Reading The Zoning Code on a Turtle Bay Corner

What a new Midtown East condo tower tells us about how zoning actually works (and what City of Yes just chang…

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Gale Brewer's Top Priority Is a Tower She Can't Stop

Gale Brewer's Top Priority Is a Tower She Can't Stop

A 1,198-foot tower, hundreds of apartments, and ground floor retail are coming to West 66th Street. The counc…

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New Skyscrapers Make the View from Roosevelt Island Even Cooler

New Skyscrapers Make the View from Roosevelt Island Even Cooler

Sutton Tower rose on a 60-foot-wide lot in Midtown East because of a 54-year-old zoning accident. Nothing lik…

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The McDonald's on 3rd Avenue Has Been Out of Scale for Fifty Years

The McDonald's on 3rd Avenue Has Been Out of Scale for Fifty Years

Zoned for ten stories, built for one, taxed like the walk-up next door

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Free buses for the World Cup? What a disaster.

Free buses for the World Cup? What a disaster.

New York’s MTA already faces a significant deficit. This would worsen it.

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The Parking Garage Around the Corner from Grand Central

The Parking Garage Around the Corner from Grand Central

How a 1961 BSA variance, a neighborhood downzoning, and New York's property tax system conspired to keep one …

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Reading The Zoning Code on a Turtle Bay Corner

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By Daniel Trubman
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The partially constructed new building going up at 1st Ave and East 51st St After an exciting Jane’s Walk earlier this month I found myself in Midtown East near the site of the Sutton Tower I recently wrote about, where I came across a 29-story tower going up on the corner of First Avenue and East 51st Street. The terracotta cladding caught my eye first, but after a moment the shape is the noticeably stranger part. The first six or seven floors form a wide podium that fills most of the lot.
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Gale Brewer's Top Priority Is a Tower She Can't Stop

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By Daniel Trubman
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The former ABC campus between West 66th and 67th Streets, April 2026. Demolition of the old broadcasting complex is underway on a 2.4-acre site half a block from the 1 train. I was sitting in a park in Harlem a few weeks ago flipping through a few of the local papers I’ve picked up recently when I came across an interview with Gale Brewer. The question was simple: what is the top issue in your district, and how are you working to resolve it?
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New Skyscrapers Make the View from Roosevelt Island Even Cooler

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By Daniel Trubman
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Sutton Tower (430 E 58th St) from Roosevelt Island I took the Roosevelt Island Tramway across the East River last weekend to make the most of a capped-out OMNY card. Turned out to be peak cherry blossom weekend, which explained the crowds on the west esplanade. There were A TON of visitors checking out the skyline, snapping photos, and picnicking on the grass. The blossoms made the island especially cool to check out in April.
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