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Originally Posted by NYer34
The tragedy of this site is that 417 Park is a beautiful, classic Park Ave. building. No sane city in the world would allow it to be razed. Yet its inhabitants (and some of the fanboy posters on this site) seem ready to do so.
On the same block is 405 Park, one of the crappiest buildings in Midtown. It's not individually offensive, but it represents a genre - crappy modernist post-war schlock - that we have way too much of and that any third-tier, podunk city would be happy to raze and replace. And it's underdeveloped, for better (minimizes the amount of crap) or worse (block doesn't maximize its utility).
Any sane city in the world would preserve 417 while redeveloping 405. We appear to be getting the opposite. Slow clap for your short-sighted crappiness once again, New York!
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And any sane person would read this and say these "fanboys" of preserving anything old just because, clearly don't get it. But thankfully they aren't in any position to do any harm.
I can't think of a single reason why, in all of New York City, this particular building needs to stand for all eternity, a must see for future generations. That's where I draw the line, and that, my friend, is
real sanity.