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So far this year, New York City has issued permits for 74 projects that would convert old office buildings into homes to address its housing shortage, a New York Times analysis of city data shows. The pace of these office-to-residential conversions has quickened sharply.

nyti.msNew York Is Relying on Office Conversions to Address Its Housing CrisisA New York Times analysis shows that the pace of office-to-residential conversions like the former Pfizer building, where two steel columns buckled in July, has quickened sharply.

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Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems to me that NYC's best mayors were middle age & born into the middle class. La Guardia (considered the best) was 52 yrs old, born into a middle-class family.