The top floors, accessible by both an interior staircase and a metal staircase outside, is dedicated completely to a master bedroom suite.

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In the midst of a cacophony of cars and cabs on the historic cobblestones at Gansevoort Street is a grey metal staircase leading up to a zone of relative quiet amid a grove of birch trees.

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All that was left of the control tower after the crash was a buckled metal exterior staircase.

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