Category Archives: Separated at Birth

Separated at Birth?

by John Massengale Posted on June 1, 2026

AS CHAIR OF CNU NYC, I was part of the Empire Station Coalition’s long opposition to the efforts of Governor Cuomo and then Governor Hochul to turn the area around Penn Station into a towering Vornadoville (Vornado calls it “The … Continue reading →

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Separated At Birth: One Santa Fe & One Western Avenue

by John Massengale Posted on December 22, 2014

ONE’S IN the Los Angeles Arts District, the other’s at Harvard Business School. In addition to the 40-ton Swords of Damocles overhead, they share little human scale* and little to even show that humans live there. The critics love both, … Continue reading →

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