New battle lines are being drawn around Ruppert Playground on the Upper East Side, as Related Companies one-ups the community members protesting its residential development plans with a proton gun. Specifically, a new plan attaching a cancer-treatment center to the proposed rental tower where the disease is treated "by beaming protons at tumors, an emerging and expensive form of radiation therapy." On a matrix, this is pretty brilliant, though straddling the line between benevolent and evil. (Pick your side! Cancer or children!) [WSJ; previously]
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