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New York’s “Wild West” to become “Hong Kong on the Hudson”

30/05/2014 15:27:00
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One of the biggest private construction projects in the U.S. is transforming a stretch of Manhattan’s West Side into a cluster of 20 new buildings — 17 of them high-rises — so tightly packed that it has earned a new, not always complimentary, nickname: “Hong Kong on the Hudson.”

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