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Originally Posted by Busy Bee
^They're just going to get covered up in the next 5-10 years with new towers. I don't think they're a big deal for that reason. I'd say focus your ire on the disgrace that is the NYCDOB mandated setback especially in Manhattan that counter-intuitively pulls the facade back exposing neighboring buildings' hideous party walls for what could be perpetuity. The Garment District in particular has been so thoroughly vandalized by this there's nearly a block that hasn't been screwed over by a horrible new budget hotel tower with a one story base and the rest of the tower 20 feet behind the streetwall. That is something that should be outrageous for people like us who care.
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I think you're all right - all of these things are atrocious.
Most buildings going up in the city are much worse than what they replace (as frankly has been the case since Modernism / the International Style became all-consuming in the '50s). It means NYC is getting steadily uglier with time.
A city government that didn't think its constituents were a bunch of leeches and dupes, looking only for welfare handouts, would care about this and address all of the things you guys are highlighting. Instead we get what we get, because we elect whom we elect.
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