Turf War goes beyond the national headlines to reveal the strategies, personalities, politics, and economics that led to the defeat of the proposal. Television City would have occupied the largest piece of privately owned undeveloped land in Manhattan – the abandoned Penn Central Railyard. It was proposed as the biggest project in the city’s history with 18.5 million square feet featuring the World’s Tallest Building flanked by luxury residential towers, the largest shopping mall east of the Mississippi River, a television studio complex, and a nine-thousand-car garage.
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Win one of five Turf War: How a Band of Activists Saved New York from Donald Trump’s “Masterpiece”
End Date: December 31, 2024