AM-New York Looks at Demolition By Neglect
10 historic New York buildings now eyesores
By Ryan Chatelain, amNewYork Associate Editor | [email protected]
July 18, 2008
Crumbling historic New York buildings
It’s hard to imagine today that the eyesore at East 125th Street and Park Avenue once was one of Manhattan’s most picturesque buildings.
Passersby now are more likely to fixate on the collapsed roof and missing bricks than the Queen Anne Style and Romanesque Revival architecture that gave the former Mount Morris Bank building its charm when it opened in the 1880s.
“They need to do something, either destroy it or repair it,” said Alfred Harris, 50, a deacon who works two doors down from the city landmark, also known as the Corn Exchange Bank building, that has sat unoccupied and deteriorating in Harlem for the past 30 years.
While landmark designation is intended to protect historic or architecturally significant structures for future generations, dozens of neglected city landmarks or buildings in historic districts are in danger of being lost forever.
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