New York University and a condominium that neighbors their 78th Street and Fifth Avenue Institute of Fine Arts are still in cahoots over the school's request to put a pseudo-subterranean passage tunnel between the NYU-owned properties in the two buildings, and the battle is getting minute. In a city so notorious for its fair-weather light, the Times begs the question of the historic light-filled and airy row of manses: Does such a walkway interfere with the sun and air the block's former owner granted in perpetuity to the neighboring manse? [NYT; previously]
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