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Post details: With talk of the Wall Street collapse

09/23/08

With talk of the Wall Street collapse

01:19:25 pm, Categories: News

causing a '70s-style decline of New York bubbling up about us, I have to admit I think it might save New York; I mean, physically save the city from the destructive rapacity of politicians and developers that's been destroying it.

I'm not heartless and the potential negative effects of this meltdown on individuals' day to day lives are a matter of concern to me. But architecture and the physical history of a place matter to the day to day lives of individuals too, whether prosaic types want to accept it or not.

And they matter to posterity.

And they matter to me.

So, if the greed and recklessness of the same people who have been tearing down my beautiful and historic city now serve to slow or even stop the wrecking balls, I, for one, am happy.

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