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Originally Posted by NYer34
That's too bad. The old building they want to extinguish is kinda nice.
Would make for a more interesting park feature if they rehabbed it into a bar / cafe, with outdoor seating around it.
Better than the monotony of granite-pavers-and-benches that is Bella Azbug Park.
Much as I think Van Valkenburgh was innovative 10 years ago, he's beginning to feel a bit like a ubiquitous one-horse pony. Preserving that building as a restaurant would've given the park a little bit of a refined, Old World / European feel...
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Ha, I'm all for preservation in the right circumstances. But that shitty old autobody shop? Come on...
The space could be much better utilized both architecturally and using the 3d nature of NYC space.