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New York apartment blocks are using “poor doors”

One nation, indivisible. 

By Barbara Speed

The website for One Riverside Park, a new high-rise in Manhattan’s Upper West Side, calls it “New York’s most distinguished new address, introducing a new level of luxury to waterfront living”. It’s very pretty. Look.

Unfortunately for its developers Extell, the new building is hitting headlines not for its charming river views, but because it’ll have two separate entrances – one for the residents of its luxury apartments, and another for those living in its cheaper units.

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