[NYer34]

Really too bad Bob Iger didn't build on top of the existing buildings.

Disney and its architects could have easily used the strong-as-an-ox old masonry structures as a base and built on top.

Would have preserved the strong sense of place that was here until, well, Disney came along.

As is, the planned building is nice and all, but it could be an upscale office in Moscow, Chennai or a second-tier Chinese city (note those are all emerging markets - W. Europe builds better, and it preserves its heritage, at least these days). This building is nouveau-riche vapid, and it will be constructed on a block that just a few months ago had as much character, pound for pound, as one could ask for.

Iger can sing "Ta-Nehisi Coates' " praises to get in with the PC crowd and show his wonderful "woke values" - but if he does something like this it's clear he has no actual moral fiber or grounding as a human.