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Tower Fight Is Taken Public
Beneath a banner that depicts a skyscraper towering menancingly over a child,
local leaders and P.S. 234 principal Anna Switzer staged a press briefing
at the school on Oct. 28 to publicize their opposition to Edward J. Minskoff’s
proposed office tower for city-owned Site 5B, across Warren Street.

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Community Board 1 chair Madelyn Wils said the city’s
Economic Development Corp. should widen the scope of an environmental
impact study for the nearly 600-foot-high building to include the
psychological impact on the students who “fled for their lives”
on Sept. 11. She and others called for a smaller residential building
or an extension of Borough of Manhattan Community College on the site.
P.S. 234 PTA president George Olsen said he hopes parents can raise
$10,000 for the fight.
Minksoff’s press spokesman, Steve Solomon, would not comment.
“If we had to respond to everything that’s said out there
we wouldn’t have time to do much of anything else,” he
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