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Ah! There’s a plane and runway on the roof!
Never ever ever even heard a whisper about that and my best friend is a pilot. Amazing
Super cool. http://gothamist.com/2011/02/17/revisiting_the_77_water_street_runw.php
Get the story about this private sculpture garden on Gothamist: http://gothamist.com/2011/02/17/revisiting_the_77_water_street_runw.php#photo-1
Awesome! There’s also a piece in the WSJ about it: http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2011/07/20/plane-on-the-roof-in-lower-manhattan/
…and I just realized that YOU WROTE THE ARTICLE, NICK!!