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Obscured in illustration but revealed after FOIL request: "low scale" Vent Structure in open space would be 12 feet tall (and was not identified in 2015 revisions)

Hey, remember the images below? They were misleading, I've concluded, failing to explain that one of the structures--not that we could really tell--would be 12 feet tall, have a 240-square-foot footprint, and be nearly 3,000 square feet in bulk. At a  Quality of Life Meeting  7/16/19, neighborhood attendees were shown these soft-focus images, "for illustrative purposes only," of two new "Ventilation Structures in Open Space." Located far from the street, they would vent exhaust from the below-grade parking garage and fitness center/field house between the two upcoming towers on the project's southeast block, B12 and B13. These new buildings would both be built by TF Cornerstone, which has leased land from master developer Greenland Forest City Partners. Though a second image (see further below) suggested the structures would be located toward the backs of the towers, the location and dimensions of the structures were hardly clear from the image above. ...