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Originally Posted by Busy Bee
Honest question... Are we trying to remember Long Island City as a moribund neighborhood of gritty warehouses?... Was it better back then? Is the old chipping cracking Eagle Electric building as a desirable preservation goal as brick DUMBO buildings from the 1890's or the Sunshine Bakery Building? I honestly dont think so. The best thing about it was the old sign, the rest of it boring and charmless.
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I don't see what's wrong with remembering what the neighborhood used to be, especially as the building stock is relatively easy to convert to other uses. More than one warehouse has gone through a conversion. I think that's a good thing and better than bulldozing everything that used to be here just to put up a blue box without a sense of place or history.
Let's put it another way: Do you like what's happening with the Domino Sugar Plant?