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Hrekires t1_j1iec9y wrote

Is the house of historic note?

Blocking change just because buildings are old doesn't exactly seem sustainable when the population is growing every year and housing gets harder and harder to find.

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BarbaraJames_75 OP t1_j1ikpg3 wrote

It was sufficiently of historic note for the landmarks commission to designate it and its neighbors as protected landmarks--it's within the greater Greenwich Village historic neighborhood.

The other is how the neighboring properties (and people who might live in them) are being affected by what could have been shoddy work.

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ssn156357453 t1_j1jphve wrote

Also: don’t accept this line of thinking. Old buildings should be preserved regardless of historic status. It’s crazy how New Yorkers go and visit Paris and Amsterdam and Venice for vacation and then come back and want to destroy our own old buildings.

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Hrekires t1_j1jqxmd wrote

Paris literally can't be built up because it's sitting on hollow ground.

The population of NYC was 122,000 when this building was constructed. It's 8,400,000 today. Need to put people somewhere.

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ssn156357453 t1_j1jtjdq wrote

I’m not talking about building up. They could just destroy buildings to more efficiently house people. And forget about particulars, what about literally any major European city.

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