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Originally Posted by mistermetAJ
The destruction of another McKim Meade and White should not be celebrated. The lobby should be restored and the hotel rooms updated. A fat, banal, glass office building does nothing to enhance the architectural heritage of the city.
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That would be nice and all if this were another era. The site, across the street from the busiest transit hub in the country, is much more valuable an asset to the city as an office building. But I don't take "preservation" concerns too seriously when the primarily objective is that the replacement isn't good enough.
As I keep mentioning, New York City is not a museum. There are numerous museums across the city, one devoted to the city itself. But no, in the living, growing, prospering, and ever changing city, sometimes old things must give way to the new. But beyond that, the building is a dump. It's not the only thing in the immediate area that should come down, (if this moves forward others will follow), but it's the one with the largest footprint that can accommodate a very large office tower.