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Chinese (mainly Cantonese from Hong Kong) dominate the city, where their characteristic three-to-four-story concrete shop houses intermingle with taller office buildings.
By night, the cathedral, lighted from the inside, looks like a white crystal, perched on a raised plaza and flanked by much taller office buildings.
Mr. Penson's feud with SL Green began last year, amid a proposal by the administration of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to rezone the area around Grand Central for taller office towers.
(The rear elevation of the penthouse is almost windowless because it looks up at a much taller office building, with what seems like miles of ugly ductwork crawling up the side).
"What's being engineered now is the replacement of one population by another to capitalize on the luxury housing boom that rezoning made possible," said Lucas Shapiro, a senior organizer for Families United for Racial and Economic Equality, which has opposed much of the development set off by a 2004 zoning change that permitted taller office and residential buildings.
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