Heavy with metaphor
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- January
- 30
If crash-in-the-Hudson flight 1549 is moved to the former GM site in Sleepy Hollow for its autopsy by the National Transportation Safety Board, as staff writer Ken Valenti reported in a news scoop today, the symbolism will be too rich to let pass without comment.  The 97-acre GM site that was slated to be a multi-use housing development has had several aborted liftoffs of its own over the years. The latest would-be developers, Roseland, which had spent a lot of time and money going through the approvals process to build a village-sized development on the property, walked away from the project last year.
Of course, the GM site isn’t the only mega-development on the Hudson to have crashed recently. Just yesterday Homes for America, which planned to build waterfront towers in Yonkers, announced that it would not be proceeding with its luxury condominiums. Of all the projects planned for the Alexander Street waterfront in Yonkers, Homes for America was the farthest along in the process.
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on Friday, January 30th, 2009 at 12:20 pm by Debra West.
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