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Originally Posted by skyhigh07
Yes, and I'm sure you're an expert and an avid researcher on New York historical preservation. Counting the number of row houses and brownstones that are demolished every year, that number is probably well above 20. Surely, there must be some compromise?
Evidently, you have no concern for preserving New York's architectural history for future generations. There are countless other places in Manhattan where new mega skyscrapers can rise... Hudson Yards for example.
Sadly, it seems that no one has really learned from the demolition of the old Penn Station. Seems very odd...
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HERE! HERE!
Skyhigh, I have been reading and watching you for sometime and I am proud to see someone else who "Really" understands what preservation is about!
People seem to think in terms of a few years or a decade at most... 'People' say "Oh, well we only demolished a few historical buildings this year, but we saved others!" Well as you say, fast forward a hundred years or so and very VERY quickly there shall be no history left!
There is a reason you call something Historical... it is because it is a part of HISTORY, IE, something made a long time ago. Historical buildings are Not a renewable resource! When you tear one down, there is nothing that can replace it! I don't care WHAT building you put in it's place, unless you are building a brick by brick replica of a past historical treasure, it can never take the place of what went before!
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Originally Posted by yankeesfan1000
You're looking at the loss of probably the Drake and soon the Hotel Penn, and the potential loss of a handful of buildings in the heart of the largest business district in the world, while not putting into perspective just how much of NY is landmarked. As of March of 2012, there are over 27,000 landmarked buildings in the five boroughs, 107 historic districts, 1,304 individual landmarks, 114 interior landmarks, and 10 scenic landmarks. All since the LPC's creation in April 1965..
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You better bloody believe I am looking at those shameful acts of vandalism!
If buildings like Drake and the Penn hotel, ye gods THE PENN HOTEL can be swept aside. NO BUILDING IS SAFE!
27,000 landmarked buildings you say? Well in another 50 years Maybe it's 20,000? And then when it is 10,000? 5,000?
People like you really do not grasp what "History" really means. We do not seek to save something for a few decades, but for ALL TIME.
The very idea that you lump the looming destruction of the Penn hotel as "just" a loss of a handful of buildings is both shocking and shameful!
Think I am being too harsh? Too alarmist in my warnings?
Just remember I am a bleeding Curmudgeon, it's my JOB!