"The amount of steel here is enormous," Flatt shouts over a cacophony of honking car horns, grinding cement mixers and moving cranes at one end of the notoriously clogged Lincoln Tunnel. More than 17.2 million pounds of steel, to be precise, enough to anchor a 67-story glass office tower. Two more towers are also going up, along with a 30-floor boutique hotel and a 16-story trapezoidal glass office building with 26-foot-high ceilings and floors the size of football fields—much of it suspended over railroad yards. Dubbed Manhattan West, this 7-million-square-foot, $5 billion project encompasses two square city blocks.
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