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Originally Posted by aquablue
Prefer to keep old buildings when newer buildings can be built on top of trash elsewhere.
The glass disturbs the pre-war feel to the area and doesn't mesh with the church at all. Bad decision not to landmark the old beauty.
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100% agree. Our most finite resource in New York is our historic building stock. It makes the city what it is (something other than Houston or River North in Chicago), it gives charm, beauty, a sense of place, and quality of life.
The city has a deep, deep reservoir of trash buildings. There really needs to be a blanket preservation of pre-WWII buildings as any European city does, to focus development on the surface lots and parcels currently taken up by modernist garbage. We'll never get this building back - and the Financial District loses a piece of what makes it so classic. We'll get some generic Raphael Vinoly zeitgeist BS (or worse) instead.