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Originally Posted by aquablue
Preserve your heritage first. NYC has too many beautiful old buildings that are in danger of the wrecking ball. Developers should do facadectomies everywhere to prevent the fine grained old street buidlings in midtown from being lost.
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Umm, no. I’d rather see historic buildings preserved in their entirety or not at all. Facadectomies are the ultimate architectural insult to the original buildings and if I had the power I’d ban them outright. In this case, there is no question that the existing buildings should have been retained and rehabbed, perhaps as some sort of boutique office space.