IN NEW YORK
HALF-EMPTY SKYSCRAPERS. CHRISTCHURCH, November 17. “Don’t think that the skyscrapers in New York are necessary; half of them are more than half-empty,” said Professor J. Shelley, in an address to the Town Planning Institute at Christchurch. The tallest skyscraper, he said, was tlie Empire' State Building which was 1250 ft high and consisted of eighty-five stories. He went to the top of this building in an elevator in one minute. It was only 40 per cent let and the rates were being paid from the fees received from sightseers. Skyscrapers were not necessary from the-commercial point of view, but were simply the expression of me New Ydrker’s desire for big things, they created moire problems than they solved and lie would not like to see any other country following tlie example of Now York. The Engine State Building occupied oik- block and “ had a population 0f’25.000. It ho' 1 no fewer than sixty-three passenger lifts and a number ot freight bits.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 November 1932, Page 6
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