As much as I love going in for the day or the night, I've always know that I don't want to live in New York City, and this article confirmed it for me. With skyscraper after skyscraper being built, "the quest to reach higher often comes at the cost of stealing someone else's light". Whether blocking off someone's window with brick or blocking off its view of the sun by height of a new building. many new yorkers constantly find themselves stuck in the "dark". This article interviewed some new yorkers about their own loss of light and the way this constant construction makes them feel. George Sanders had a building built right next to his apartment, but was disappointed with how it was carried out. He thinks that "going higher and staying narrow would've allowed light and air...Now we're just plunged into darkness. It's just too bad".
Some call it "a sense of being sealed off, of being isolated" and that their apartments now are very "cavelike". Who wants to come home to that? I guess they could just escape to places like Central Park to get a breath of fresh air and some sunlight. But, not for long; "Seven towers are planned or underway along the area south of Central Park", taking away sunlight there too. While I understand the importance of constant expansion in a city like New York, it seems clear to me that more efforts have to be made in order to maintain sunlight for all of its essential benefits to the people living there.
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