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Feb 17, 2016
The Missing Treasure
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Times Square, New York
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The Chrysler Building
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World Trade Center
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Brooklyn BridgeI
Lower Manhattan, 1900
Pennsylvania Station, 1910 - 1964 B1
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In August, 1962, artistsand architects paraded,hoping to save the monumental buildingfrom demolition.
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For a year, they fought to save McKim, Meadand White’s masterpiece. They met with the mayor and made front-page news.
They lost. The station wasgone by 1966.
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Today, architects and city leaders call the demolition a
moral outrage.
"We knew we wouldn’t win, but we did hope to change
the climate."
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Across town …
another stone hulkprepared for the wreckingball …
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The Grand Central Terminal
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1913 - Present
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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's train carstill sits on a secret stub of track beneath Grand Central.The track ended under the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, wherea private elevator took the President’s party to … The President’s Suite.
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In 1968, Penn Central unveiledplans for a tower even bigger thanthe 1963 Pan Am Building to be builtover Grand Central.
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The Supreme Court saved the terminal, holding that the city’s Landmarks Preservation Act did not constitute a "taking" of the developer’s property under the Fifth Amendment.
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Ending in 2007, the exterior was againcleaned and restored,starting with the westfacade on VanderbiltAvenue and graduallyworking counter-clockwise.
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