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NEW YORK — The Empire State Building’s owner lost a bid to stop a skyscraper from rising in the neighborhood when the City Council approved zoning and land use changes Wednesday for the 1,190-foot tower.
The project, called 15 Penn Plaza, is in the planning stages. But the plans alone for a glass office tower, which would stand higher than the Empire State Building’s 86-floor observatory, infuriated the landmark’s owner, Anthony Malkin, so much that he called it an “assault on New York City and its iconography.”
Denver Post wire services
