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Right now is crunch time for the city's Landmark Preservation Committee with proposals of a dozen new districts potentially coming up for a vote by the end of the month. The Post talks to preservation experts who say that the recent building boom helped spur demand for landmarks. Simeon Bankoff, executive director of the Historic Districts Council, tells them, "Communities woke up to losing what they really valued and said we want to become a landmark." Included in the upcoming proposal include a stretch of an entire thirty-seven blocks along West End Avenue between 70th and 107th an area of Prospect Heights that includes 860 buildings, the largest potential preservation area in the last twenty years. But will all of this preservation turn the city into "a mausoleum?" One lawyer who has fought against landmark status before told the paper, "The more those things grow, the less dynamic of a city you have. You want to have a city where development is possible; otherwise you get stagnation."
Preservation Foes Get Ready to Square Off Over Landmarks
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So it turns out that the man that was pinned by the 5 train this weekend was high. This was off the
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"One lawyer who has fought against landmark status before told the paper, "The more those things grow, the less dynamic of a city you have. You want to have a city where development is possible; otherwise you get stagnation."
Not to worry my evil friend. There are a lot of areas left in NYC that will remain so all this glorious development you lust for can occur. How about starting with tearing down project housing and building a glorious new New York?
They should develop Central Park. It's getting pretty stagnant there.
They should also level Grand Central and put a Jets stadium there.
Developers these days churn out crap, better save what's left or let money-grubbers knock em down.
Are you serious? Atlantic Yards and the West Side Stadium are exactly the sorts of things New York *doesn't* need.
What do we need then?
Can anyone here tell me of a project that was built by a "big developer" here in the past thirty years in NYC that has a "WOW" factor? SoHo, Tribeca, Chelsea, Mepa were mostly developed by individuals, not by "big developers."
TimeWarner Center has a wow factor, as in "Wow, what a huge piece of shit."
You got me there Nanny, I forgot about that one. Also Times Square is so much nicer since they Disneyfied it. South Street Seaport also comes to mind on what can be done to make an area more inviting and exciting.
Developer: "You want to have a city where development is possible; otherwise you get stagnation."
Move to Houston if you want unbridled and inappropriate development.
Notice how landmarking turned crappy areas like Tribeca, SoHo, DUMBO into the most expensive properties in the country, while nearby neighborhoods remain poorly developed.