Bell Labs was one of the most important centers of innovation in history. To escape the distractions of New York City, its labs gradually relocated to lower-density areas of New Jersey--examples below. The transistor was invented in Murray Hill. For innovation, GIMBY > YIMBY.
"The Bell Labs Murray Hill laboratories spawned such innovations as the UNIX operating system, the C programming language, speech compression, digital switching, information theory, and many more – with the most famous being the transistor." No high-rises in that backyard.