Air Rights
Owning my own space
6 min readAug 24, 2021
Who owns space? Can someone really purchase “air rights”?
Apparently, they can because a developer bought the air rights over a McDonalds and a bar called Live Bait and built an emaciated 40-story building in front of my mom’s co-op on 22nd Street in Manhattan.
The building juts out, dozens of stories above anything else in the Flatiron District. It is gray…
