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Originally Posted by aquablue
Wait, those beautiful old little slices of London are being demolished? Pathetic and heinous. First the Vornado assemblage, where a gorgeous row were demolished for an empty lot, and now this. 57th used to be pretty because of these nice old buildings, now other than a few stellar towers, its going to be duller to walk through. Whatever Solow puts up is going to be less visually interesting than these nice old neo-classical buildings. I predict some kind of glass box. His legacy is going to be the destruction of beautiful buildings. I hope he doesn't get his way here.
Why on earth don't the city require facadectomies. It's pathetic how little civic pride these developers show. Philistines.
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100% agree. By and large, NYC's developers would aid and abet a terrorist attack if they thought it'd make them a dime. A few landmarked neighborhoods aside, our city has turned into an ugly wreck after 60 years of Modernist damage. With a few exceptions, this city's developers don't give a damn for the city, and they're making all of us the poorer for it.