{"id":2815,"date":"2007-09-28T08:05:33","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T16:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/09\/its_the_ketchup_mustard_or_relish_race_of_architecture.html"},"modified":"2007-09-28T08:05:33","modified_gmt":"2007-09-28T16:05:33","slug":"its_the_ketchup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/09\/its_the_ketchup.html","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s The &#8220;Ketchup, Mustard Or Relish&#8221; Race Of Architecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inferiority complex, anyone? The results are in on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amny.com\/news\/local\/am-bank0927,0,3995170.story\">the race to number two<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park will reshape Manhattan&#8217;s skyline and force a revision of the record books that catalog the city&#8217;s giants.<\/p>\n<p>The 54-story building stands 945 feet tall, but tops out at 1,200 feet with the addition of an ornamental spire, inheriting the title of New York&#8217;s second-tallest skyscraper. It was held by the Chrysler Building since Sept. 11, 2001, when the Twin Towers were destroyed and the Empire State Building returned to the top spot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The building is topped off already,&#8221; said Jordan Barowitz, director of external affairs of the Durst Organization, the real estate development firm that partnered with BofA to erect the building. &#8220;The last piece of steel went in a few weeks ago and the first tenants will arrive in May 2008.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One Bryant Park doesn&#8217;t break any records without its decorative spire, but the use of such a device to raise a tower&#8217;s bragging rights isn&#8217;t out of the ordinary.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inferiority complex, anyone? The results are in on the race to number two: The Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park will reshape Manhattan&#8217;s skyline and force a revision of the record books that catalog the city&#8217;s giants. The 54-story building stands 945 feet tall, but tops out at 1,200 feet with the addition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture_infrastructure","category-the_geek_out"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}