Framed by trees

At 76 stories and 870 feet, 8 Spruce Street is <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PLGEO100100804010000" title="Manhattan (New York City)" href="/topic/us/new-york/new-york-city/manhattan-%28new-york-city%29-PLGEO100100804010000.topic">Manhattan</a>'s tallest residential tower, edging out the previous holder of that title, <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PEBSL000163" title="Donald Trump" href="/topic/economy-business-finance/construction/donald-trump-PEBSL000163.topic">Donald Trump</a>'s Trump World Tower. 8 Spruce Street's crumpled stainless steel skin seems particularly luminous as it rises above the dark canyons and old, masonry-covered buildings of lower Manhattan.
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( Scott Strazzante, Chicago Tribune / August 10, 2011 )

At 76 stories and 870 feet, 8 Spruce Street is Manhattan's tallest residential tower, edging out the previous holder of that title, Donald Trump's Trump World Tower. 8 Spruce Street's crumpled stainless steel skin seems particularly luminous as it rises above the dark canyons and old, masonry-covered buildings of lower Manhattan.

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