Oof, this one's pretty bad. The original wasn't anything to write home about, but the redesign is just plain bad. Gene Kaufman can do better (and worse!) that this. And while the building on the corner isn't much of a loss, the 14-story mid-block beaux arts building was much better than what is going up now.
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"Then each time Fleetwood would be not so much overcome by remorse as bedazzled at having been shown the secret backlands of wealth, and how sooner or later it depended on some act of murder, seldom limited to once."
Against the Day, Thomas Pynchon
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