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Tony Dorsett, Broncos running back (1988) While he didn’t make quite the impact in the Mile High City as the other did, facts are facts: he’s in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Dorsett spent 11 years with the Cowboys before being traded to the Broncos in 1988 for a fifth-round draft pick. In his sole season in Denver, he started 13 games and rushed for 703 yards and five touchdowns. … [Read more...] about If Larry Walker is inducted today, Denver will have four Hall of Famers who wore No. 33

That applies to One Vanderbilt, an office building that thousands of people will enter or cross through every day. Its base is stitched to transit, and its design needs government support. It is, in that sense, partly a public building. But a new economic lunacy is reshaping the skyline: the fact that a very few will pay vast sums for a tiny number of apartments that they rarely occupy. Their developers are selling a bizarre mixture of privacy and ostentation, and they require no approvals, which means they have no reason to care what the public thinks. That raises major moral questions. Supertall, superskinny towers benefit hardly anyone, but their impact is citywide. The first time the confluence of technology and economics started reshaping the skyline, the city responded with the 1916 zoning code, which required tall buildings to recede as they climbed so that light and air would penetrate to the city’s lower zones. Those rules didn’t cap height or sap New York’s … [Read more...] about The Rise of the Mile-High Building