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Originally Posted by NYguy
Here's an idea, why don't we just landmark Manhattan? It's agreed that we like it, let's just preserve everything as is. Who needs new buildings when old buildings already exists? Future generations need to know what I can look at today. How will they ever know what was? In fact, the greatest mistake ever made was building out Manhattan in the first place. It would have been much nicer in it's natural state. So let's just stop building now, and preserve everything forever.
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Cool strawman, where did you get it? In all seriousness, I just think as the last of the major terminal city hotels left and a well-preserved prewar hotel in general, it deserves some consideration.