Business Insider, published an article yesterday concerning the 15 Penn Plaza. You can read it here, but the long and short of it, the project is scheduled for completion in 2014.
The excuses of Penn Central in tearing down a mere-55-year-old principal terminal went on and on. Thereafter - endless regret and expense.
What can the good people do, now, to "occupy" this particular development and greed issue?
Hizzoner Mayor Bloomberg, like a couple of his recent predecessors, believes that development, development, development is the key to everything good - regardless of consequence, conscience, or opposition.
It seems unbelievable that a true landmark must fall again after so many others have been truly lamented. The tower which will replace this hotel will only add to the menace of over-crowding, over-taxed transit, diminishing beauty in New York's skyline, and the sense that nothing is, indeed, sacred. No history of beauty, craft, intent, or inspiration is worth saving or being known about, particularly if there is gold to be mined by removing it.
It is knowledge itself which is being razed, not just a tired skyscraper hotel. No one should know that once people travelled better and had better places to stay once they got where they were going. No one should know that real service, as one would find in this hotel and similar hotels, was actually an aspired-to state.
The corporate take-over of all and everything is a faceless evil which must be stayed a bit. It cannot be stopped, but it can be diverted.
The down side of New York is the proof that everything has its price and once met is an irresistible force. That irresistible force is Vornado -- a rapacious dragon jealously eating up the landscape. It can only be satisfied by total destruction of the nature of all it cannot control.
I so encourage the buildings of new hotels and lodges since tourism can actually bring a town alive or make it richer. In Argentina for instance, every hotel in buenos aires competes to be the best and that is why the capial is one of the most visited in the world! Kim
The excuses of Penn Central in tearing down a mere-55-year-old principal terminal went on and on. Thereafter - endless regret and expense.
ReplyDeleteWhat can the good people do, now, to "occupy" this particular development and greed issue?
Hizzoner Mayor Bloomberg, like a couple of his recent predecessors, believes that development, development, development is the key to everything good - regardless of consequence, conscience, or opposition.
It seems unbelievable that a true landmark must fall again after so many others have been truly lamented. The tower which will replace this hotel will only add to the menace of over-crowding, over-taxed transit, diminishing beauty in New York's skyline, and the sense that nothing is, indeed, sacred. No history of beauty, craft, intent, or inspiration is worth saving or being known about, particularly if there is gold to be mined by removing it.
It is knowledge itself which is being razed, not just a tired skyscraper hotel. No one should know that once people travelled better and had better places to stay once they got where they were going. No one should know that real service, as one would find in this hotel and similar hotels, was actually an aspired-to state.
The corporate take-over of all and everything is a faceless evil which must be stayed a bit. It cannot be stopped, but it can be diverted.
The down side of New York is the proof that everything has its price and once met is an irresistible force. That irresistible force is Vornado -- a rapacious dragon jealously eating up the landscape. It can only be satisfied by total destruction of the nature of all it cannot control.
I so encourage the buildings of new hotels and lodges since tourism can actually bring a town alive or make it richer. In Argentina for instance, every hotel in buenos aires competes to be the best and that is why the capial is one of the most visited in the world!
ReplyDeleteKim