A development proposal that would alter the city’s skyline is headed before the City Council today.

The Zoning and Franchises Subcommittee is holding a hearing on the Vornado Realty Trust’s proposal to build 15 Penn Plaza.

The building would stand two blocks west of the Empire State Building on the site of the current Hotel Pennsylvania on Seventh Avenue.

The Empire State Building’s owners, Malkin Holdings, say the proposed tower would disrupt views of their building.

It has released its own rendering of the new building, pictured above, showing the 1,200-foot tower blocking the view from the west of the Empire State Building.

“The Empire State Building is the iconic and defining feature of the skyline,” said Anthony Malkin of Malkin Holdings. “To virtually everyone, the Empire State Building defines New York, and by a better than two-to-one margin, 63 percent to 28 percent, New Yorkers want the New York City Council to reject or to amend the current design for 15 Penn Plaza.”

(Source: NY1)