Re:Leasing Begins for New York’s First Micro-Apartments
by bradleyjg on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @01:29PM
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We could go example / counter example all day long. The highways cut through living neighborhoods destroyed the southern Bronx and it's never recovered. Development can be done well or it can be done poorly, but to decide which is which we need to first agree and what we are trying to achieve. Personally, I don't think much of "character of the community" arguments. If you want that move out of one of the quaint bedroom communities in Westchester, Nassau or Jersey.
@misiti3780
The original Penn Station was a beautiful, light filled, Beaux-Arts style building. It was knocked down to put up Madison Square Garden (a sports arena) and an office building. The current Penn Station is a depressing, underground, dirty warren. The NYC preservation movement has its beginning in the uproar over tearing the old one.
Re:Leasing Begins for New York’s First Micro-Apartments
by rayiner on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @05:04PM
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I'm pretty anti-NIMBY, but the Penn Station example is my line. So long as you're not doing something of that magnitude, you should be free to build whatever you want.
@misiti3780 The original Penn Station was a beautiful, light filled, Beaux-Arts style building. It was knocked down to put up Madison Square Garden (a sports arena) and an office building. The current Penn Station is a depressing, underground, dirty warren. The NYC preservation movement has its beginning in the uproar over tearing the old one.