Morning Brief: February 22
New York City’s skyscrapers are likely to keep getting taller and taller—whether residents like it or not. One of the city’s more notable recent additions, located at 432 Park Ave., has been widely mocked and by many New Yorkers for its proportions: a staggering 1,396 feet tall, but only about 93 feet wide on each side. But these proportions may well be the new norm. Engineers say advances in high-strength building materials, coupled with the city’s rapidly shrinking plots of available land, means buildings like 432 Park are simply more lucrative than more traditional skyscrapers.
NEED TO KNOW
Kalamazoo Uber Driver Picked up Fares between Killings, Source Says [CNN]
US Airstrikes Kill Serbian Embassy Staffers Held Hostage by Isis in Libya [The Guardian]
Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders Both Claim Gains After Nevada Caucuses [Wall Street Journal]
President Obama Defends Upcoming Cuba Visit Amid GOP Criticism [NBC]
Election of a Female President Opens a New Era for a Former Boys Club [New York Times]
WEATHER
48 degrees and partly cloudy [Full Forecast]
ON STAGE TONIGHT
An Acoustic Evening w/ Jackie Greene w/ Hollis Brown @ City Winery
Graham Nash @ Tarrytown Music Hall
TODAY IN HISTORY
On this day in 1980, the Miracle on Ice: In Lake Placid, New York, the United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 4–3.
