What You Don’t Know About Manhattan’s Most Dangerous Building

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00:00 Intro
02:23 A Skyscraper On Stilts
07:33 Engineering an Impossible Building
10:02 LeMessurier's Plan
13:59 Along Came Diane
17:58 LeMessurier, Interrupted
21:35 A Storm Brewing
24:40 The Secret Fix
28:21 Seventeen Years Later
32:33 Standing Tall

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