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Effects of the Complex Here are some of the major findings on the impact of TelevisionCity, according to the preliminary draft environmental statement.
Bay Ridge, upper Manhattan and the Bronx would suffer some interference with television reception from the world's tallest tower.
A significant worsening of traffic at dozens of intersections on the Upper West Side would require extensive traffic changes.
Bus reroutings into Television City are proposed. Additional buses would be required for Television City riders and for riders forced off current routes that may be changed.
Additional crowding in subway stations would require new construction.
Shadows would be cast over Riverside Park and planned waterside park.
The proposed supermall would take some business from Herald Square stores, and from malls in Brooklyn and Queens.
The world's tallest tower, which developer Donald Trump wants to build as part of his massive Television City complex on Manhattan's Upper West Side, could interfere with TV reception in Brooklyn and the Bronx.
The 152-story building, 1,949 feet tall, would reflect up to 30 percent of the signal strength from transmissions beamed from the top of the World Trade Center, according to a preliminary draft environmental impact statement prepared by Trump consultants on Television City.
In addition, the project would increase auto traffic, passenger congestion at subway stations and air pollution, the study says.
The statement found that while households in lower Manhattan would not be affected, those lying within an area 100 feet wide and 2.8 miles long in western Brooklyn, especially Bay Ridge, "may experience some ghosting interference. The reflected signal will cause a ghost image that may appear displaced slightly to the right."
And a similar path five feet wide opening up to 60 feet wide through upper Manhattan into the Bronx "may cause appearance of a border on the edge of well-defined portions of the picture."
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