New York's Penn Station to remain hideous

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2-24-2008 @ 1:39PM

John said...

The old Penn Station was grander than Grand Central. It became a victim to a madness rampant in the 1960s when modernists ran amok with their hatred of stone and ornamentation and instead loved soulless glass and metal boxes. They destroyed what they couldn't build to replace it with a disposable tin drum.

The only good to come out of that was that the sacrifice of the station was not in vain. The greatest act of civil vandalism in the history of the country lead to the landmarks preservation law and it was that law that later on helped save Grand Central.

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