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Melvyn Kaufman, developer noted for whimsical designs

By Margalit Fox

 |  New York Times  

  March 27, 2012

Mr. Kaufman, a quixotic, unabashedly contentious developer who helped shape Manhattan’s postwar streetscape and is credited with injecting his personal brand of whimsy into the city’s office towers, died March 18. He was 87.

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