On the tiny island of Manhattan, whats considered too close?
As if it wasn’t too hot — really excruciating — here all summer, New York was also embroiled in matters of too close, too tall and too intrusive. A proposed Islamic community center two and a half blocks from the World Trade Center site provoked a now-international uproar over whether it was too close and therefore too painful a reminder that the terrorists who murdered nearly 3,000 people on Sept. 11, 2001, said they were acting in the name of Islam. Meanwhile, the owner of the 1,250-foot-high Empire State Building objected to a proposal to build a 1,216-foot-high glass tower practically next door, saying it would be too close, too tall and, of all outrages, too imposing on the Manhattan skyline.
