LW! Board member Jeffrey Kroessler has a terrific op-ed in yesterday's Daily News:
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Wrecking crane moves in for kill on the Morosco Theater at W. 45th St. in 1982Image: Clarence Davis |
“Historic preservation saved New York City: 50 years after the passages of a landmark law, celebrate its legacy”
Treat
yourself to a full read. Here's an especially meaty excerpt, which
follows an inventory of good things historic preservation has done New
York City:
“Today, the city takes for granted
the benefits of preservation while refusing to embrace it. Critical
voices find a more receptive audience in both city government and among
the general public, creating an odd alliance of builders favoring
untrammeled development and progressives seeking to advance desired
social ends.
“But the protection of historic parts of the city is not a quaint idea with no value in the present.”
Bravo, Jeff!
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