Back in 1982 Paul Goldberger, then architecture critic for the New York Times, bemoaned the advent of what he called a new building type on New York’s skyline. In an article headed ‘The Invasion of the Sliver Houses’, he railed against the ‘thin, narrow, apartment tower, sometimes no bigger than a townhouse, but reaching upward for 15 or 20 or more storeys.
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